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May 9, 2012
Top Sommelier Tips with Gabriele Originario of La Mar
Sommeliers spend all day with wine, and are a great resource for new finds. They're the "friend on the inside" that can help you suss out the best values on their wine lists. With that in mind, we've come up with a short suite of questions that we're posing to some of our favorite area sommeliers to ... More >>
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April 10, 2012
Beer & Spirits Chocolates: Taste Testing Sweets with a Kick
We recently reviewed Coco Delice's beer and booze-infused truffles, and now two more of our favorite chocolate artisans have turned up with beer and spirits in their sweets. Vice Chocolates' 2012 Lush collection features a beer, a whiskey, and two wine-based truffles. Socola, meanwhile, has add ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
Wine of the Week: La Sirena's Moscato Azul and Syrah Santa Ynez
Heidi Barrett's family has been making wine in Napa long before the valley became a world-renowned wine destination. Barrett is one of Napa's rock-star winemakers, best known for bringing in perfect scores from some critics for her work at Screaming Eagle. If you don't care about Napa, or rock ... More >>
Dining
March 7, 2012
Drink: Wild Spirits: Small-Batch Bay Area Distillers Take Big Risks
Heidi Barrett's family has been making wine in Napa long before the valley became a world-renowned wine destination. Barrett is one of Napa's rock-star winemakers, best known for bringing in perfect scores from some critics for her work at Screaming Eagle. If you don't care about Napa, or rock ... More >>
Blogs
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 28, 2012
Wine of the Week: Imbibe Federalist Dueling Pistols in Honor of Aaron Burr
There's a new wine sheriff in Zin town, and its name is Dueling Pistols. Corny, I know, but the label alone could have you looking for a gun fight. Dueling Pistols is a new wine, first vintage, from a new project, The Federalist, which itself is only in its second vintage. The Federalist is Terla ... 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 >>
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February 8, 2012
Winos of the World Unite at Pinot Noir Summit
No, but it may rain wine at the Pinot Noir Summit.What: 10th Pinot Noir Summit Where: Hilton Financial District When: Saturday, Feb. 25, 1:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Cost: $130 for an all day ticket, $85 for the Grand Awards Tasting and Ceremony. The rundown: Hang out with wine lovers and ABC ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Wine of the Week: Waterstone Merlot and Cabernet
Sometimes you have to go a long way to find a local wine. For this week's wine(s), we turned to Canada. Actually, Canada came to us in the form of our friend Dups, and his iPhone image of a Waterstone Cabernet. He asked if we knew it. We didn't . He liked it, we tried it, and now here we are. Wa ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
What's White Burgundy like? Find Out for Less with Gary Farrell
The View From Gary FarrellAccording to William "Rusty" Gaffney, M.D., aka The Prince of Pinot, "Some consider Gary Farrell the father of Russian River Valley Pinot Noir." While Gary himself has long ago left the vineyard, the fog-shrouded winery he built with Bill Hambrecht is still producing pr ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Primus' Les Claypool Will Serve You Wine Out of a Railroad Caboose
Dear Primus fans, haven't you always wanted to grab a drink with Head Freak Les Claypool? Yes, of course you have. And now, thanks to Mr. Claypool's new hobby, that's tantalizingly easy to do. According to a report in Sunday's Chronicle, the top-hatted Primus bassman himself is known to occasionall ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Wine of the Week: Champagne-Quality Bubbles from Norcal
One of our standbys for high-quality, locally-sourced, reasonably-priced bubbles is Schramsberg. Schramsberg stands out, with a few others, as a producer that doesn't merely mimic the method of Champagne (Methode Champenoise), but actually approach or equal the quality of houses from spark ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
ZAP: New Location and a New Food and Wine Pairing Event
We go to a lot of wine tastings: trade, consumer, best-of, pre-auction, single-appellation super-regional. They can be a great way to train the palate, but over time they're tiring to foot and tongue. So, we've resolved to focus only on the ones that have shined over time, the ones where your ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
Wine of the Week: Mercury Rising Bordeaux-Style Tastes Pricier Than it Costs
"Exceptional value-per-dollar ratio" is how Cinnabar, or at least their publicist, promotes their wines. Based on our tasting of their 2008 California Mercury Rising "Bordeaux-style" wine, we see substance in the statement. We taste wines blind-ish. We don't brown bag and mix them up to confus ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
The Year in Music Booze: Six Artist's Beverages That Made 2011 One Long Hangover
Rock 'n' roll culture died in 2011. It's got nothing to do with your opinion of Bon Iver, but everything to do with Rolling Stone. The former leading voice of modern music upheld its immaculate reputation this year... by starting an official wine club. It's filled with bottles branded with imagery f ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
This Thursday: Arlequin's Beaujolais Bash!
What: Beaujolais Bash! Where: Arlequin Wine Merchants When: Thurs., November 17, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $25 The rundown: If there's one wine to love, it's Beaujolais, and that's not just because it's the most fun to say. This week, you have the rare and exciting opportunity to taste bottlings fr ... More >>
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November 8, 2011
Quivira Makes Jam, Not Just Jammy Wines
Wines are often described as "jammy," but how often can you buy jam and wine from the same producer? Dry Creek Valley producer Quivira will sell you both, and some honey from the estate as well, with the help of some goats, bees, and manure-filled bull horns. The goats mow the lawn, the bee ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Pre-Auction Wine Tastings: The Best Deal in Wine
The only sure way to develop your palate for wine is to taste more. When you get the chance to taste older, rarer, or more expensive wines than you might normally dink, take it. That opportunity presents itself this Thursday at San Francisco Wine Center during the Wine Gavel pre-auction tastin ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Piccino Wine List Seeks Balance, Naturally
White wine made from Pinot NoirWhen I first looked over Piccino's leftist-wine-geek wine list, I assumed it was compiled by a follower of the natural wine movement. Only seven of the 42 wines on the list are from California, and most are from winemakers associated with natural wine: Lioco, ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
One of the World's Most Sought Cult Beers Arrives Here Saturday
High/Low Food/DrinkEvery year's issue of Cantillon Zwanze is an eventCantillon Zwanze Day When: Saturday, Sept. 17, 11 a.m. Where: Russian River Brewery Cost: "We won't know until they deliver it on Saturday," they told us on the phone. Attention PBR-swilling hipsters: sour beer is the cool ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Santa Julia Torrontes: Like Drinking Fresh Flowers
Argentina is working hard on marketing Malbec as its signature grape, but I prefer Torrontes. For one thing, unlike Malbec, which was imported from France, Torrontes may actually be indigenous to Argentina. People used to believe it was the same as a grape of the same name in Spain's Galicia ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Twenty-Five Lusk Serves 6-Course Champagne/Strawberry Menu
Seared diver scallop with foie gras torchon and grilled strawberriesSFoodie is willing to put ourselves on the line for you. So when we heard Twenty-Five Lusk is offering a 6-course Champagne and strawberry themed menu for $90 -- $60 food, $30 wine pairings -- through Blackboard Eats, we ran ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
The SF Weekly Guide to Decanting Wine
Surely you can find something to do while the wine breathesA former Microsoft technology guy, Nathan Myhrvold, is all over the Internet this week with a video showing that he believes the best way to decant wine is to use a blender. "Decanting is about doing two things," Myhrvold told Bloomb ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2011
The Less You Spend, the More Interesting Fifth Floor's Wines Are
Amy Goldberger in the Fifth Floor wine roomThere might be no better sign of where San Francisco's fine dining scene is in 2011 than the wine list at Fifth Floor. It's a pricey hotel restaurant, reviewed today by our restaurant critic Jonathan Kauffman. Yet the list is currently managed by wi ... 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 >>
Dining
July 20, 2011
Fresh Eats: Deciphering the Wine List at Bar Tartine
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 20, 2011
Bar Tartine Wine List: If It's Porn, It's European Porn
Alex FoxThis week we ran our first wine list review to accompany Jonathan Kauffman's restaurant review in the print edition of SF Weekly. Jonathan likes to offer people a little extra flavor on the web, so I decided to do that too by dropping by Bar Tartine on a Friday morning to taste wine w ... More >>
Blogs
July 5, 2011
Dogpatch WineWorks Replaces Crushpad
Since Crushpad left San Francisco last year for Wine Country, folks wanting to make their own wine in town have had to go it alone -- which, in most cases, meant not making wine. And ripe smells in the Dogpatch neighborhood unfortunately haven't been coming from fermenting grapes. But now, t ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2011
Robert Mondavi Woodbridge 2009 California Zinfandel
This writer made a simple dinner last night of brown rice, freshly pulled chard and kale from the garden, a handful of off-season wild porcini from -- oops, almost gave away my patch! -- and several steaks of a hand-harvested lingcod, which we lathered with coconut oil and sesame seeds and br ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
Surveying Stout Beer Jelly and Biodynamic Wine at Taste of Mendocino
Sean TimberlakeBlack Dog Farm's jams and preserves range from the mundane to the quirky.Monday's Taste of Mendocino event brought some of the best nibbles and sips from the county to Fort Mason to sample. Under the expansive roof of the Festival Pavilion, long rows of booths offered up tempti ... 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 26, 2011
Concannon Winery 2009 Central Coast Pinot Noir
The "R" at the end of "noir" is not silent. The letter is meant to produce a distinct sound, and, in effect, "pinot noir" rhymes with "film noir." But in the upper echelons of wine drinking society, some say "pinot nu-aaah." Have you noticed? One must guess they think they're quite cultured when pro ... More >>
Blogs
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: Sake to Me
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 >>
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January 10, 2011
Good Eats and Zinfandel Pairing Brings the "Z" Back to Herbst
dr_XeNo/FlickrFifty eateries, fifty wineries, paired up in the buddy system at Herbst Pavilion.Like bells to Pavlov's dogs, the sight of a capital "Z" this time of year starts us thinking of (if not quite drooling over) red wines native to the Golden State, punctuated by notes of pepper and r ... More >>
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November 11, 2010
Kaiken 2009 Malbec Mendoza
Tuesday night we went to Boulevard and blew the rent. After two Woodford Reserve Manhattans, the sommelier John helped us pick out an astounding Barolo from Piedmont that set us back $165. Good thing the foie gras was amazing and the northern halibut was as close to the empyrean as one gets w ... More >>
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November 8, 2010
Vietti Dinner at Ristobar Tonight
Get a rare opportunity tonight at Ristobar to meet with Luca Currado, winemaker at Vietti winery in the small medieval village of Castiglione Falletto, the heart of Piedmont's famous Langhe wine region. Six of his organically produced wines will be available by the glass, along with a special ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
Ready to Splurge? The Romililly 2008 Pinot Noir is a Gem
Neeta Lind/FlickrA $43 wine should deliver brilliance, and Romililly Pinot Noir does. This is the 2006.I certainly appreciate a good deal on wine, and try to expose as many bargains as I can. But as a wine lover, sometimes you just want the comfort of a treasured favorite, whether or not you ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2010
JAQK Cellars: Boutique Wine and Food Pairings in Jackson Square
Lou BustamanteSmall bites designed to pair with JAQK's varietals.The area around Jackson Square Park is heaven for designers of everything from clothes to furniture. Now the neighborhood can add wine to its list of boutique offerings. Hidden in an unassuming building is JAQK Cellars ― the n ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
A Wine Lover's Ode to NOPA, S.F.'s Newest Zone of the Grape
dj drüe/FlickrRestaurants like Nopa have helped this corner of the Western Addition remake itself as a wine-friendly district.I've lived on the corner of Broderick and Grove since 2004 and have watched my little neighborhood prosper and grow into one of San Francisco's thriving corridors. It ... More >>
Dining
December 3, 2008
This Time It's Persianal
Hoss Zaré returns to the Fly Trap with a new Middle Eastern–accented menu.
Dining
March 14, 2007
Latest Vintage
One good wine bar leads to another
Dining
August 30, 2000
Side Dish
Sno-Drift, Hall of Fame and Cain Vineyard and Winery
Dining
April 12, 2000
Side Dish
Forward to the Past; Beneath the Palms; Five and Dime; Smoke 'Em If Ya Got 'Em; Rim Shot
Dining
March 22, 2000
Side Dish
Open and Shut, The Theater of Life, Pop Tops and Pull Tabs, Zinful

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