One of my favorite Bay Area food and wine events, the 9th annual Dark & Delicious Petite Sirah™ is coming to Alameda in two week on Friday, February 20th! Dark & Delicious (“D&D”) is the preeminent annual Petite Sirah event in the world. It’s put on each year by P.S. I Love You, an association of Petite…
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Wines At Our Table: Week of February 1, 2015
I’m starting a new weekly feature on the blog this week. Over the course of a week, my wife and I drink a bunch o’wine – almost always with food. Since I’ve always been fascinated by wine at the table with food, I thought it would be fun to recap not only the wines we’ve…
Wine Tasting Club Blind Tastes 18 Merlots!
I can barely believe it, but the Pacific Pointe Wine Tasting Club (“PPWTC”) is 5 years old! When my wife and I started the community-based wine-tasting club in 2010, there were only 3 folks who showed up for our first tasting – a neighborhood couple and a friend. The PPWTC has since blossomed into vibrant community…
2015 Zinfandel Experience Media Tasting – Top 20 Favorites
I attended the Zinfandel Advocates & Producers (“ZAP”) 2015 Zinfandel Experience Trade and Media Tasting held at Rock Wall Wine Company on Wednesday, January 28th. The Trade and Media tasting featured 90 or so wineries, and I’d guesstimate at least 200 wines available for tasting. The Media tasting was held for 3 hours from 2-5p….
Wine of the Week; 2012 Concha y Toro Cabernet Sauvignon
Every Thursday I feature a wine I particularly enjoy, whether it’s something new and different, is a great value, or from a producer worth checking out. This week’s wine is the 2012 Concha y Toro Cabernet Sauvignon Casillero del Diablo Legendary Collection. The Winery Casillero del Diablo is one of the many brands of Concha Y Toro, the largest…
Wine of the Week; 2012 Vigneto San Vito – Orsi Pignoletto
Every Thursday I feature a wine I particularly enjoy, whether it’s something new and different, is a great value, or from a producer worth checking out. This week’s wine is the 2012 Vigneto San Vito – Orsi Pignoletto Colli Bolognesi Classico Vigna del Grotto. The Winery Federico Orsi & Carola Orsi Pallavicino founded Orsi – Vigneto San Vito in 2005 with…
2015 Slow Wine Tour Coming to San Francisco
You’ve probably heard of the “Slow Food” movement, which was emerged from Italy’s Piedmont region more than 25 years ago in 1989. The slow food movement’s mission is… good, clean and fair food for all. What you may not know, at least I didn’t until recently, is that there’s also a “Slow Wine” movement. In 2010,…
Wine Pairing Recommendations for Hometown Foods #SundaySupper
This week’s #SundaySupper theme is all about hometown and the wonderful memories one’s favorite hometown foods may evoke. What I call “hometown” has always been a challenge for me. I was born in Chicago, but moved to California with my parents as a teenager. I’ve spent (way) more than half my life in California. But…
A Taste of Emilia-Romagna #ItalianFWT
Sometimes the universe smiles on you. My 2015 wine resolution is to perfect my palate for Italian wines. And by “perfect my palate”, I don’t mean developing greater tasting acuity. For me, it means “living” with a particular wine, learning everything one can about it, and buying as much of that wine as your pocketbook will allow….
Wine of the Week; 2012 Sandlands Chenin Blanc
Every Thursday I feature a wine I particularly enjoy, whether it’s something new and different, is a great value, or from a producer worth checking out. This week’s wine the 2012 Sandlands Chenin Blanc is all of the above. From The Winery Sandlands is the personal project of Tegan and Olivia Passalacqua. The line-up encompasses the forgotten…