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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 >>
Blogs
February 21, 2012
Wine of the Week: Blue Plate Chenin Blanc Is Worth Getting to Know
Each wine region of France is home to a variety of grape used in wines bearing that region's name. From Vouvray comes chenin blanc. If you're a dessert wine-enthusiast, you probably know that chenin makes for exceptionally sweet wines, including Quarts des Charmes from the Loire, which are among the ... More >>
Blogs
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 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
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 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 >>
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 >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
Big House Unchained Naked 2009 Chardonnay
Big House WinesThe origin of Chardonnay, like that of many grapes, is uncertain. Sources seem to point toward the Middle East, and some believe the variety to be closely related to Muscat. Otherwise, Chardonnay's history is hazy, obscured by the centuries. Its modern history, though, is more co ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2011
Heartswork Winery WELL REaD 2009 California Red
At $5.99, this is one bottle that defies the common wisdom that no-sulfites-added wines justify a higher price.A molecule called sulfur dioxide ― aka sulfites, a common preservative ― has become the crux of an ongoing disagreement between two schools of winemakers. Those who vouch for the ... 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
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 >>
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
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
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
May 22, 2009
Love Vino? Hang Out on Facebook? It Could Land You a Gig with Sonoma Co. Winemaker
e.t via FlickrThe winning "lifestyle correspondent" will spend six months touting Murphy-GoodeCalling all Twitter addicts with a thing for wine: A Sonoma County winemaker wants to pay you a boatload of money simply to hang out, sip Zinfandel, and send tweets. Seriously. Okay, so it calls for a bit ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2009
Wine & Beer Events, May 1-10
Monday's 100 Cabernets for $50 = 50 cents each (if you can taste that many).
Blogs
April 3, 2009
Wine & Beer Events, April 3-11
Saturday's all about the East Bay.
Blogs
March 31, 2009
Cheap Wines That Don't Suck: 2007 Trentatre Rosso
This tastes a bit like a rustic old-school Rioja.
Blogs
March 13, 2009
Wine & Beer Events, March 13-22
Tuesday is St. Patrick's Day ... maybe some Ch. McCarthy?
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.
News
December 3, 2008
SF Weekly Letters
Terroir's wines are usually delicious, always interesting, and you won't see most of them elsewhere.
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.
Blogs
July 25, 2008
Another San Francisco First: Resident Winemaker Tasting
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.
Blogs
June 2, 2008
The Golden Glass Cometh: Winemaker Dinner At Fifth Floor
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
May 12, 2004
Grapes, Without the Wrath
We read "Grape," the Chron's "serial saga," so you don't have to and uncover the world champion of pizza acrobatics
News
February 17, 1999
Wine Brats
They're young! They're rich! They'll drink anything!
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