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March 1, 2012
In Pursuit of Balance: Celebrate the California Wines That Get Amount of Alcohol Right
At most gathering of wine-folk, talk eventually turns to the topic of high-alcohol wines. Personally, I'm not too opinionated on the matter just so long as the alcohol is in balance as an element of the wine. But that balance is harder to achieve as the alcohol content climbs higher. If a fr ... More >>
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February 15, 2012
Wine of the Week: Shake Ridge Red
In Champagne, most big-name "houses" buy their grapes from multiple growers and blend them to achieve consistency -- Veuve is Veuve whenever you drink it. But if you talk to Somms in the city, you'll most likely find that they favor grower-producers, those wine makers who grow their grapes. Latel ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2012
Meet Our Masterminds: Eric Cohen and Eliane Lima
The economy sucks, but we don't care -- the Bay Area is home to artists so talented they deserve to take over the world. That's why the Masterminds grants are given to three local and emerging artists who need that little push to become even more awesome. SF Weekly has narrowed down the potential w ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2011
J Rosé's New Clear Bottle Helps Holidays Sparkle
Holiday party e-vites are filling our inboxs, and the calendar is already looking like a mostly completed crossword puzzle with lots of full boxes and only inconvenient white space. All those parties means hostess gifts, or, if you are the host or hostess, the gift of expectation -- the expectation ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2011
Shmaltz Brewing's Jeremy Cowan Comes Home for His Beer Book Reading
What: Beer Beer Book Reading Where: City Beer Store When: Sat., December 3, 4-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Shmaltz Brewing proprietor Jeremy Cowan, author of the newly released Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah: How It Took 13 Years, Extreme Jewish Brewing, and Circus Sideshow Freaks to Make Sh ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2011
America's Cup: Booze and Boating Unite!
Wine and yachts -- an American traditionWine and yachts go together like PBR and fixies. So you knew this was coming. The organizers of the forthcoming America's Cup and Napa Valley Vintners today announced that Napa will be the "Official Wine Region of the 34th America's Cup." Those toting in forei ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2011
California Vintners Infusing Wine with Pot
Wharman/FlickrApparently, it's an easy match with California's other favorite mood altering crop. In a Gourmet Live article last week, Matthew Kronsberg let the Internet in on a little secret that California wine geeks have known for a while: A few of our winemakers are tossing a few ounces of bud ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Joanna Karlinsky and Popups Take Over Food at the Winemakers' Speakeasy
Joanna Karlinsky/FacebookJoanna Karlinsky, in her Meetinghouse days.Joanna Karlinsky, former chef-owner of Pacific Heights' much-loved Meetinghouse, has been looking for a permanent venue since closing up Sweet Jo's, her cafe in the Presidio JCC, last year. For the past two months, she's been ser ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2011
Tolosa Shows What Chardonnay Smells Like Without Oak
Earlier this year I attended a fascinating seminar, led by a perfumer, at Tolosa Winery in San Luis Obispo County. Over the course of several mentally exhausting hours, we learned by blind-whiffing essential oils exactly what many of the descriptors we use all the time smell like. For examp ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2011
Family Winemakers Show Offers More Wine Than You Can Handle
Foodgal.comFamily Winemakers of California Tasting Where: Fort Mason Center When: Sunday, Aug. 21, 3-6 p.m. Cost: $65 advance, $75 at the door We can drink a lot of wine, but we find the Family Winemakers of California annual tasting overwhelming, in a good way. There's always about 50 times ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
Drink Oakland Wine at the Urban Wine Xperience
Michelle Locke/Palate PressUrban Legend Cellars is one of more than 20 wineries that make wine in OaklandEast Bay Vintners' Alliance 6th Annual Urban Wine Xperience Where: Jack London Pavilion, 1 Broadway, Oakland When: Saturday, Aug. 6, 2-5 p.m. Cost: $40 A lot of wine is consumed in San Fr ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
Pop-Up Wine Special: Only for SFoodie Readers
Cameron Hughes, the man, and Cameron Hughes, the winesPlanning to write about pairing wine with roast chicken, I went back through months of tasting notes looking for the right Chardonnay: Great flavor, great price. It turned out to be a Chilean Chardonnay imported by San Francisco negociant ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2011
Napa Winemaker Came from Sports Illustrated for Kids
This is another little extra for this week's review of Bar Tartine in the print edition: an interview with the man who made one of the most impressive wines on the restaurant's very interesting wine list. Liza GershmanDan PetroskiWhen I called Dan Petroski to ask him how he managed to make M ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2011
A Field Guide to Sustainable and Delicious Dry Farmed Wines
Whole lotta irrigation goin' on in Napa.Irrigation is plainly a function of the modern world. Though the ancient Romans built spectacular gravity-driven aqueducts, drip irrigation for agriculture was not invented until the late 1960s in Israel, and only in the 1970s did water-bearing pipes a ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
New Book Teaches the Alcoholic Art of Beer Brewing
Just Brew It. The best part about beer has always been, hands down, drinking it. But for many thousands of Americans, brewing beer is just as rewarding. Brewing is an intellectual experience -- it's an art, a science, a study of history, a mastery of chemistry, and a craft. And while drinki ... More >>
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May 10, 2011
City Beer Store Celebrates Five Boozy Years
Jason HenryWanderer, Rouge Baril Baltique, and Open Container, all brewed to mark City Beer Store's fifth anniversary.With the proliferation of local beer bars, gastropubs, and grassroots brewing operations, it's easy to forget how much our beery landscape has changed in five short years. The ... More >>
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May 3, 2011
Glen Ellen 2009 Old Vine Zinfandel Proprietor's Reserve
dr_XeNo/FlickrAt last year's ZAP Festival, plenty of old-vine Zin, not enough scandal.In January, we attended the largest single-variety wine tasting in America: the ZAP Festival at Fort Mason. We sauntered through the pavilions, glass in hand, point-blank asking winemakers how old their "old ... More >>
Dining
March 9, 2011
Drink 2011: In Craft Brewing, the Meek Inherit the Earth
dr_XeNo/FlickrAt last year's ZAP Festival, plenty of old-vine Zin, not enough scandal.In January, we attended the largest single-variety wine tasting in America: the ZAP Festival at Fort Mason. We sauntered through the pavilions, glass in hand, point-blank asking winemakers how old their "old ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
Tasting Petite Sirah, California's Little Big Wine
Alastair BlandTasting panelists Noah P. and Eleni K. strike a pose with the Petite empties.It was born in 1880, and four years later came to California. But for another 80, almost nobody knew it. Petite Sirah is one of California's historical vines and among the earliest varieties introduced ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2010
Old Oak Becomes Almanac Beer Co., Plans February Release
Almanac Beer Co.When Brian Yaeger introduced SFoodie readers to Old Oak Beer Co. a couple months back, the much-anticipated "farm-to-barrel" ale was waiting patiently in oak wine barrels, mingling with fresh Sonoma County blackberries. While nothing has changed about the beer company's vision ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2010
Look at Art, Then Drink It
bittermelon/FlickrThe Press Club is offering tastes of wines featured in SFMOMA's current exhibit.How Wine Became Modern, SFMOMA's new exhibit on visual and design evolution in the wine world, is a fascinating look at both the aesthetics and processes of modern American winemaking, tracing th ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
Are Liquor Companies Stealing S.F.'s Best Bartenders As 'Brand Ambassadors'?
Brandywine HartmanNeyah White left the bar at Nopa to work for Suntory Japanese whisky.As a career choice, bartending has seen historic ups and downs. It was a genuine profession in the 19th century, an outlaw one during Prohibition. And up until recently, tending bar was a gig you held down ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2010
Winemakers Pouring Into S.F. Next Month for Golden Glass
Slow Food San FranciscoThe yearly Slow Food fundraiser attracts a crush of international winemakers.Clear your calendar, Slow Food-slash-wine geeks: the Golden Glass is due next month. This is the seventh year for the swirl of sustainable grapes and noshes, the primary fundraiser for Slow Foo ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2010
Will the Sale of Anchor Mean the Death of Quality at S.F.'s Revolutionary Brand?
Brian YaegerFritz Maytag in 2005.Why, Fritz ― why did you sell Anchor Brewing? And does it mean the end of an era for craft brewing both in San Francisco and across the nation? Of the 4,000 breweries operating in America at the end of the 19th century, a little over 1,500 were back up and ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2010
S.F.'s Iconic Anchor Brewery Sold to Marin Investment Company
Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshFritz Maytag revived the Anchor Brewing Co., keeping operations in S.F.Noah Galuten of our sister blog in L.A. is among a handful of sources reporting this afternoon that local craft beer pioneer Anchor Brewing Co. has been sold to The Griffin Group, a Novato-based i ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010
A Winery ― on Treasure Island? Taste for Yourself This Saturday
Treasure Island WinesWinery tour may include dog.Treasure Island may sound like the most unlikely place for a winery, but the more you think about it, the location makes sense: cheap warehouse space, bay-cooled climate, easy access to vineyards and drinkers. One of the island's few urban wineries ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2010
Sunday: Drink Hyper-Local Wines, Donate to Ultra-Local Libraries
JoeyWan/FlickrLarge-scale wine tastings are an odd sort of bacchanal: On one side of the hundreds of tables stand industry reps from around the country, politely pouring tastes and repeating their talking points until they're hoarse. On the other side of the table, the ticket-holders stand three ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2010
Crushpad Leaving Dogpatch for the Napa Valley
InfodivaMLIS B./YelpThe custom winemaker is gettin' the hell out of Dogpatch.S.F. wine writer W. Blake Gray dropped the news on his blog yesterday that DIY winemaking company Crushpad is leaving its facility in Dogpatch (2573 Third St. at 22nd St.) for more idyllic surroundings in the Napa Va ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2010
California Craft Brewers Represent at the Fancy Food Show
B. YaegerFirestone-Walker Brewing's Brandon Borgel, part of the California brewski cointingent.For three days (Jan. 17-19), Moscone Center is so full of munchies, it's like a stoner's wet dream. The National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT) is in the midst of producing the 35t ... More >>
Blogs
August 18, 2009
Drink the Way the Good Lord Intended: Wine Week Celebrates All-Natural Vino
R. LauristonTerroir: Talking up the benefits of natural.If you're a bit fuzzy on the term "natural wine," you're not alone. Here's a brief explanation, just in time for the San Francisco Natural Wine Week (August 24-30). Natural wine is similar in principle to biodynamic and organic wines, p ... More >>
Calendar
July 29, 2009
Dine About Town
R. LauristonTerroir: Talking up the benefits of natural.If you're a bit fuzzy on the term "natural wine," you're not alone. Here's a brief explanation, just in time for the San Francisco Natural Wine Week (August 24-30). Natural wine is similar in principle to biodynamic and organic wines, p ... More >>
Culture
July 1, 2009
Two new books explore wine bootlegging during Prohibition
R. LauristonTerroir: Talking up the benefits of natural.If you're a bit fuzzy on the term "natural wine," you're not alone. Here's a brief explanation, just in time for the San Francisco Natural Wine Week (August 24-30). Natural wine is similar in principle to biodynamic and organic wines, p ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2009
A Glass of Flowers: Ferry Plaza Pinot Noir Tasting Explores Sonoma's Terroir
jspatchwork via FlickrFlowers Pinot Noir: Where Burgundy meets SonomaFrench winemakers are always talking about terroir, that elusive term that can't really be translated into English, or, for that matter, into American concepts about viticulture. Terroir encompasses all the environmental factors th ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2009
Wine & Beer Events, April 3-11
Saturday's all about the East Bay.
Blogs
February 23, 2009
As Economy Leaves Us Crying Into Our Beer, Local Brewery Laughing Its Way to the Bank
Your untaxed dollars at play: Schmaltz Brewing is reporting record sales, despite a crap economyWhen the current financial crunch rumbled into the big time late last year, 499 of the Fortune 500 companies' experienced plummeting stock prices. The one that didn't? Campbell's Soup. The notion of futur ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2009
Wine Bar of the Week: Terroir
Terroir's wines are usually delicious, always interesting, and you won't see most of them elsewhere.
Blogs
December 18, 2008
City Attorney Joins "SF Weekly = Nostradamus" Bandwagon
By Matt Smith Knowing a bandwagon when he sees one, City Attorney Dennis Herrera today indirectly proclaimed SF Weekly to be a newsprint-based All Being, All Knowing, Mistress of Sight and Sound.In a Dec. 18 press release titled "Herrera, AGs Reach Pact with MillerCoors to Stop Producing Alcoho ... More >>
News
December 3, 2008
SF Weekly Letters
By Matt Smith Knowing a bandwagon when he sees one, City Attorney Dennis Herrera today indirectly proclaimed SF Weekly to be a newsprint-based All Being, All Knowing, Mistress of Sight and Sound.In a Dec. 18 press release titled "Herrera, AGs Reach Pact with MillerCoors to Stop Producing Alcoho ... More >>
Dining
November 19, 2008
Voodoo on the Vine
The origins of the increasingly popular Biodynamic wine are steeped in the occult and bad science.
Calendar
October 29, 2008
Wine Elites?
The origins of the increasingly popular Biodynamic wine are steeped in the occult and bad science.
Blogs
September 12, 2008
Cellar Rat: Week One at Unti Vineyards
The origins of the increasingly popular Biodynamic wine are steeped in the occult and bad science.
Blogs
August 25, 2008
Largest Tasting of California Wines in the World!
The origins of the increasingly popular Biodynamic wine are steeped in the occult and bad science.
Calendar
August 6, 2008
Music from Big Pink
The origins of the increasingly popular Biodynamic wine are steeped in the occult and bad science.
Blogs
July 28, 2008
California Wine-O Efficiency Act
The origins of the increasingly popular Biodynamic wine are steeped in the occult and bad science.
Calendar
July 9, 2008
Transmutation and Transformation at Dinner
The origins of the increasingly popular Biodynamic wine are steeped in the occult and bad science.
Calendar
July 18, 2007
Bike Rodeo Clowns
The origins of the increasingly popular Biodynamic wine are steeped in the occult and bad science.
News
August 24, 2005
Discount Dynasty
After scoring big with "Two Buck Chuck," renegade vintner Fred Franzia once again has Napa Valley's wine burghers in an uproar
Film
March 30, 2005
The Grapes of Mirth
Jonathan Nossiter's wine documentary is subversive, funny, and humane
News
February 17, 1999
Wine Brats
They're young! They're rich! They'll drink anything!
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