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Monarh Grove Winery Rose
June 19, 2026
All Stories, Drink, Featured, Summer 2026 - Issue 52

Monarch Grove Winery Opens New Grover Beach Tasting Room

Portugal style wines are on the menu at Monarch Grove Winery in Grover Beach, where as writer Emily Basanese explains, the owners recently opened a new tasting room.

Illustration by Dyna Beach
March 12, 2026
All Stories, Drink, Featured, Spring 2026 - Issue 51

Customized Caffeine: Celebrating Central Coast Coffee

San Luis Obispo County, coffee drinkers are fortunate to have a wealth of options to sip a tasty morning brew. This is an ode to some of our favorite ways to caffeinate.

Photo of Bella Steffenauer
March 6, 2026
All Stories, Drink, Featured, Spring 2026 - Issue 51

Perspective: Joebella Coffee’s Young Owner Spills the Tea

In this Perspective piece, a young coffee shop owner describes the challenges of running a business, and the joys of creating connection with customers and the community through co...

TWO SLO COUNTY VINEYARDS MARK MILESTONE MOMENTS.
December 18, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Featured, Winter 2025 - Issue 50

Two SLO County Vineyards Surpass 100-Year Milestone

San Luis Obispo County’s oldest vineyards are featured in the article by Katy Budge, who shares the past and future of J Dusi Wines and Saucelito Canyon Vineyard.

Pono Pacific Kitchen Craft Spirits
November 15, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Featured

A Grover Beach Favorite Steps Behind the Still: Pono Pacific Kitchen Debuts Craft Distillery & Full Bar Program

The beloved Pacific Rim-inspired restaurant has debuted an in-house craft distillery and a full bar program, stepping into the state’s long, sometimes rebellious, tradition of in...

Firestone Walker New Carbon Capture
November 8, 2025
Drink

Firestone Walker Adds Carbon Dioxide Recovery to Sustainability Commitment

Introducing the latest chapter of their “Brewing for Tomorrow” sustainability program, Firestone Walker Brewing Company recently took the wraps off of their new carbon dioxide ...

Firestone Walker - Cal Poly Gold Limited Edition
September 29, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Featured

Firestone Walker and Cal Poly Deepen Their Gold Standard Collaboration

Firestone Walker Brewing Company and Cal Poly have announced they’re extending their collaboration around Cal Poly Gold, the crisp Helles lager style that has become the universi...

The beverage menu includes both alcoholic and non-alcoholic options.
September 8, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Eat, Fall 2025 - Issue 49, Featured

Coffee, Cocktails and Food at SLO’s Twenty South

This article by writer Aja Goare explores the food and drink offerings of Twenty South in San Luis Obispo, where Founder Andre Gorham prioritizes customer service and creating a th...

Garagiste Festival Co-Founders Stewart McLennan and Doug Minnick
August 29, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Featured

The Garagiste Festival Proves That the Micro-Winery Scene Is Still Going Strong

There are several standout wine events across the Central Coast to invest time and money in. So what makes the Garagiste Festival one of these to keep on the list?

July 18, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Experiences, Featured

Meet Me in Temecula: Summer Wine Tasting

As we enter the dog days of summer, many San Luis Obispo County residents may appreciate the short drive and European charm of Temecula. Here, we share a shortlist of scenic wineri...

Wine bottle in the field
June 13, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Featured

Tablas Creek Vineyard Becomes First U.S. Winery to Bottle All 14 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Grapes as Single-Varietal Wines

Tablas Creek Vineyard has announced the completion of a decades-long project: bottling all 14 traditional Châteauneuf-du-Pape grape varieties from the Château de Beaucastel colle...

Woman handing wine drink
June 3, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Featured, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Water Management Creates Quality Wines at Jada Vineyard

In this article, writer Aja Goare shares how Jada Vineyard’s focus on sustainability and water management has supported healthy soils that lead to outstanding wines.

Tasting Spot Bubble Trouble - Photo of person holding drink
June 3, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Tasting Spot: Sparkling Water Adds Pizazz to Hydration

Various brands and flavors of sparkling water are replete on the shelves of grocery stores, gas stations and drugstores. Not long ago, the water was sold in apothecaries, believed ...

Lucky Jim Cocktail - Last Sip
March 1, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Featured, Recipes, Spring 2025 - Issue 47

Last Sip: Lucky Jim

I discovered this spine-tingling vodkatini at London’s popular Taiwanese diner BAO.

Photo of wine festival event
September 21, 2024
Community, Drink, Featured

Discover the Micro-Winery Scene of the Central Coast at the Garagiste Festival

Dubbed “tasting nirvana,” “strange and wondrous,” and “one not to miss” by the LA Times, the Garagiste Festival is the only event focusing on under-the-radar micro-wine...

Two photos of people making cocktails behind a bar.
September 6, 2024
Drink, Fall 2024 - Issue 45, Featured

Drink Slingers: Mason Bar

When the sun goes down, the spirits come out. Check out the artistry from the Mason Bar in Arroyo Grande.

Two Photos of a man working a DJ booth and a couple standing in a field
September 2, 2024
Drink, Fall 2024 - Issue 45

Moonlighting: These SLO County workers strike a balance across careers

In this article by Edible writer Katy Budge, we examine the dual careers held by members of the San Luis Obispo County hospitality industry.

August 31, 2024
Drink, Featured

Can you judge a wine bottle by its cover?

This Central Coast winery thinks so – they actually create their "summer session" series wine blend flavors based on the “flavors” of the bottle art.

Photo of Melani Harding in the field and wine cellar
August 31, 2024
Drink, Fall 2024 - Issue 45, Featured

Where wine grapes now grow in San Luis Obispo County, almond trees once thrived

In this article by Edible writer Linda Reed, the history of almonds as a major cash crop in San Luis Obispo County is explored at Bon Niche Cellars.

Photo of attendees at brew fest
June 7, 2024
Community, Drink, Featured

That’s a Wrap on the 2024 Firestone Walker Brewing Invitational Beer Fest

Here is how it all went down; supplemental parties included.

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Monarch Grove Winery’s tasting room has been a fixture of the Grover Beach Amtrak station, greeting riders as they disembarked from the train. Like the butterfly, the tasting room recently migrated away, just around the corner to a larger space. Owners Ercilia Martins and Julie Garcia are excited for this new stage of their business.

After that initial trip, Julie was hooked. She began taking winemaking classes and scouting locations for the right space to open a tasting room at home in Grover Beach. They wanted to apply that same Old World approach characteristic of Portuguese winemaking to their wine. That’s when they landed on Monarch Grove Winery.

Ercilia and Julie purchased Monarch Grove Winery on the first day of 2024, but their passion for wine started long before their acquisition. Ercilia is originally from Portugal and grew up in the countryside, where her family made their own table wine. She brought Julie home for visits in 2019 and 2022. That’s when Julie first began learning about winemaking from Ercilia’s father, Joe Martins. 

“I fell in love with the culture and wine, and how food went with wine,” Julie says. “It’s an art.”

Transformation has been a running theme in both Julie and Ercilia’s lives, so a winery branded with the Monarch butterfly, a creature that undergoes dramatic physical change itself, was a serendipitous fit. 

“The Monarch is a symbol of transformation and this whole experience has been a big transformation in our lives,” says Julie.

Grover Beach was also spot-on. When Ercilia first visited the small beach town, she instantly felt at home; it reminded her so much of Portugal. Grover Beach may not have the renown of San Luis Obispo or Pismo Beach, but that was part of the appeal. 

“There definitely has always been a pull to this community,” says Ercilia. In 2018, the two purchased their first home in Grover Beach and

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