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Former Goldman Trader Puts Up 15,000 Wines As Loan Collateral As you might guess, there was a lot of high-end French stuff in there.
By Jessie Cacciola
Food Is the New Rock
May 13, 2013
By Jay Barmann
InnerFog Wine Bar Reopens … With New Beer They were closed for a couple months after some water damage.
By Jay Barmann
Robert Brown, The ‘World’s Greatest Wino,’ Dies at 73 The street performer who joked that he tried to drink Napa Valley into a desert was actually sober for the last thirteen years.
By Hadley Tomicki
InoVino, a Wine and Panini Bar, On Its Way to Cole Valley It’s a project from longtime Perbacco wine director Claudio Villani, who’s now left the restaurant.
By Jay Barmann
Five Hip-Hop Lines That Made Moscato Huge Moscato drinking appears to be driving growth in domestic wine sales overall, and we trace its rise to popularity via hip-hop lyrics.
By Jay Barmann
The Other Critics
Apr. 16, 2013
By Jay Barmann
Drew Barrymore Ices Her Pinot Grigio, Misses Trader Vic’s She also can’t stand the brutality of being a judge on cooking shows.
By Jay Barmann
Wine Spectator Coming to Town With Big April Tasting Event; Paso RoblesThe big Wine Spectator Grand Tour costs $200 per person, and arrives April 24.
By Jay Barmann
Quote of the Day
Mar. 28, 2013
Lou Amdur Sounds Off on ‘Sluts’ He’s talking about wine, of course.
By Hadley Tomicki
Foodievents
Mar. 25, 2013
By Jay Barmann
Brunello Killer Sentenced to Four Years For Wine Crime The guy who destroyed six vintages of pricey Brunello wine will get prison time.
By Jay Barmann
Food & Wine ‘Best New Chef’ Alums Cooking at Paiche; Tam O’ShanterThe Atwater Village Scottish restaurant serves roughly 5,000 pints every March 17.
By Hadley Tomicki
You Can’t Taste Wine Nearly As Well As You Think Several studies indicate you don’t know what you’re talking about.
By Hugh Merwin
Chinese Wine Drinkers Baffled by Western Tasting Notes European fruit and food references don’t help much if you’ve never tasted them.
By Jay Barmann
Food Is the New Rock
Mar. 13, 2013
By Jay Barmann
Sommeliers of the Year Kelli White and Scott Brenner Say California Is Cool The husband and wife team has built the biggest collection of all-Napa wines in the country.
By Jay Barmann
Bordeaux Is So Out It’s Back In Again No one ever thought it was possible, but the Bordelais are now begging for attention from the wine cognoscenti.
By Jay Barmann
An Insider’s Guide to Surviving Barrel Tasting in Sonoma We offer you several tips for enjoying the event like an adult, and avoiding the hordes.
By Jay Barmann
What’s On Alma’s Wine List Now That It’s Approved For Booze The offerings come from a global mash-up of progressive, natural wine-makers.
By Hadley Tomicki
Neighborhood Watch
Feb. 1, 2013
By Jay Barmann
Fig Finally Springs Its New Wine Label Available in both a Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, the label fittingly sports an adorable cartoon pig.
By Hadley Tomicki
The Name Game
Jan. 24, 2013
Introducing Trader Joe’s ‘UpChuck!’ Conveniently, it’s both an appropriate verb and a noun to use for Charles Shaw Wine.
By Hadley Tomicki
We Don’t Actually Dislike Him
Jan. 21, 2013
By Jay Barmann
The Name Game
Jan. 21, 2013
What Can We Call ‘Two-Buck Chuck’ Now That The Price Is Changing? The price on Trader Joe’s infamous bargain wine is going up by 25%.
By Hadley Tomicki
Try Lots of Wine This Weekend at Winter WINEland in Sonoma The Northern Sonoma Wine Road is hosting their 21st annual winter tasting event.
By Jay Barmann
Orange Wine Already Over, Say Two Wine Writers Before the majority of wine drinkers have even heard of orange wine, two wine writers are already tired of the wine world fad.
By Jay Barmann
Tank 18, SoMa’s New Urban Winery, Opens January 26 They’re opening with a BYO-Bottle party - bring a washed-out wine bottle and they’ll fill it for eight bucks.
By Jay Barmann
The French Are Annoyed That Obama Is Serving California ‘Champagne’ Korbel has made a special bottle of “Inaugural Cuvée Champagne,” and the French wish it said, “California Champagne,” or sparkling wine.
By Jay Barmann
Wine Kitchen Softly Opens Tonight on Divis There will be an ambitious small-plates menu and an international wine list.
By Jay Barmann
Ten Awesome Bottles of New Year’s Bubbly That Aren’t the Big Brands There’s no reason to ring in the New Year with champers that’s made by multinational luxury conglomerates a million bottles at a time. These bottles of bubbly are far better.
By Chris Cohen
Booze You Can Use
Dec. 6, 2012
By Jay Barmann
Wine Kitchen Getting Set to Open on Divisadero It’s going to be a wine bar and small plates restaurant on the ever-gentrifying Divisadero corridor.
By Jay Barmann
Famed Italian Winery Hit by Vandals Destroying $25 Million Worth of Wine Case Basse di Soldera, a top producer of Brunello di Montalcino, may have had it coming for a while.
By Jay Barmann
Quote of the Day
Dec. 4, 2012
By Jay Barmann
Sneak a Peek at Tank 18, SoMa’s Newest Wine Tasting Room It’s a full-scale urban winery and tasting room, at Howard and 10th.
By Jay Barmann
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