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Harvest Events in Apple Hill™
Harvest Happenings. And You! Saturday and Sunday will herald the front end of fall. Cool Off Already! We can all agree that a change in the weather is overdue! Apple Hill traffic has not been bad this year, so we're encouraging you to plan a visit and pick up your...
Tasty Fun In Apple Hill™ at Crystal Basin
Seafood Series at Crystal Basin! "We’re adding on! Not Just With Storage Space! We found that our Customers absolutely LOVE our Seafood Series at Crystal Basin. So We’re Adding a 4th Event to Our Seafood Series! Legends Are Told - About Crab Feeds of Old! That’s the...
Date Night In Camino
Perhaps the Best Wine Ever for Carnivores! This week! Thursday night Crystal Basin After 5! Featuring ‘Out of the Blue’ – August 29th – Under the Stars! We need to tell you about Crystal Basin’s After 5 Thursday night concert and dinner program. There have been lots...
Date Night With Your Hunny
Treat Your Hunny to a Tasty Date Night. Thursdays at Crystal Basin Cellars! This Week! Perfect Weather and perfectly grilled steak pair quite nicely with carefully made wine and passionate live music each Thusday night at Crystal Basin in Camino. For $30...
Early Summer Fun Stuff At Crystal Basin Cellars
The Winemaking is Done - Let's Enjoy the Wine as Summer Kicks Off! Next Weekend – May 25th! AND June 15th – Carson Road BBQ Series! Explore flavors and exercise your senses at Crystal Basin Cellars. We’ll be hosting barrel room tours featuring our 2023 wines and...
July Wine of the Month, Petite Sirah
Petite Sirah is a Big and Unique element of California grape history. Besides the layered blueberry and cocoa-esque tannin structure, the aspect of smooth and velvet oozes from the glass. Dark and bold but understated because of the unique fruit grown in vineyards...
June Wine of the Month, Mourvedre
Mourvedre’s origins in the sunny regions of eastern Spain and southern France make it perhaps the perfect grape for the rolling hills and dramatic backdrops of California’s Sierra Foothills. Crystal Basin’s version has a velvety spiciness along with a mysterious...
June Meau-Faux, Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Cousteau, undersea explorer, writer, filmmaker Born June 11, 1910, Jacques Cousteau was a visionary underwater Meau-Faux in the true tradition of the genre. The dude who actually invented breathing underwater no less! Spy, war hero, commando and cinematic...
May Wine of the Month Grenache
Ah Grenache. We picked it as the wine for the month of May, largely because it is a transitional wine, much like May itself. Like May, Grenache comes in a host of styles and flavors. It is the second-most planted red wine grape in the world, only surpassed by Cabernet...
May’s Meau-Faux Orson Welles
Orson Welles was not just the ‘wine before its time’ guy. He was the guy who pioneered Fake News by scaring the bejezus out of Americans by announcing an alien invasion over the radio in 1938. Spoiler alert – it didn’t happen… Late in his career, he became well known...
Dead Presidents Weekend
Every year we get questions about Dead Presidents Weekend. Because we are all about customer service and we’re always here to help, this year we are going to help you operate from a position of clarity. The basic premise is that you hit your safe deposit box and pull...
Syrah Wine of the Month
Announcing Crystal Basin's Wine of the Month Syrah! Syrah was one of the two grape varieties that Crystal Basin was founded to showcase. Grown at higher altitudes, Syrah gains a rugged, meaty fruitiness and loses the higher tannins that its often known for. Our Syrah...
Oysterfest
What's this Oysterfest thing about?March 11, 202311:30 am - 2:30 pmCamino, CA Ahh – Oysters. Fresh Oysters tasting faintly of the sea. Slurped raw or bbq’d with garlic butter. And Wine. Lovely fresh and enjoy a brisk afternoon in the Foothills. And then, the...
Johnny Cash
Join us at our Crystal Basin Cellars locations this February 2023 to celebrate our Meau-Faux, Johnny Cash.What is a Meau-Faux and why does Crystal Basin Celebrate them? We are always seeking to identify and honor innovative leadership. We’ve created a way for us all...
Paint and Sip
Relax, Uncork, and Escape at our Paint and Sip event at the Crystal Basin Station in Folsom, California. With a brush in one hand and a glass of vino in the other, you’ll escape into a world of color and fun. You will be surprised at how easy it is to create a...