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Slow Wine Tour 2020

March 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

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What the heck is slow wine? A song? A dance? Both are true. But it is also a way to evaluate wine Slow Wine Editiore, based in Italy, decided to develop a hitherto new set of criteria for evaluating wine. Rather than assigning wines scores based solely on a critic’s review of “quality”, Slow Wine […]

Filed Under: Featured-City, Wine Events, Wine Tasting Tagged With: Alessandria Fratelli, Alma Fria, Azienda Agricola 499, Borgogno e Figli, Bosco del Merlo, Cain Vineyard, Caparsa, Cascina Corte, Castello di Monterinaldi, Castello di Perno, Cliff Lede Vineyards, Corte Adami, Ehlers Estate, Elevee Winegrowers, Enest Vineyards, Felsina, Fonum Esstate, G.D. Vajra, Gallica, Gamble Family Vineyards, Grimm’s Bluff, Hawk and Horse Vineyards, Idiot’s Grace Wines, Larkmead Vineyards, Littorai, Marco Porello, Maysara Winery, Rubinelli Vajol, Ruby Wines, Slow Food, Slow Wine, Sorelle Bronca, Tablas Creek Vineyard, The Eyrie Vineyards, Torre a Cona

Grands Crus 2017 Bordeaux Wine

August 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux is a group of 134 top wine-producing Châteaux from a number of Bordeaux’s most prized wine appellations. The group sponsors a number of wine tastings that provide an opportunity to sample wines from the region’s newly released vintages. The January 2020 San Francisco Event focused on 2017 and 2018 […]

Filed Under: Bordeaux, California, Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, France, San Francisco, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: ActiveWineExperiences, Appellation Pomerol, Botrytis, Chateau Brane-Cantenac, Chateau Coutet, Chateau Criozet-Bages, Chateau Dauzac, Chateau de Chantegrive, Chateau Doisy Daene, Chateau d’Yquen, Chateau Ferrande, Chateau Giscours, Chateau Grand-Puy Ducasse, Chateau Gruaud Larose, Chateau Guiraud, Chateau Haut-Bages Liberal, Chateau Kirwan, Chateau Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Chateau Lafron-Rochet, Chateau Lascombes, Chateau Leoville Poyferre, Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion, Château Marquis de Terme, Chateau Mouton Rothschild, Chateau Ormes De Pez, Chateau Pichon Baron, Chateau Prieure-Lichine, Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte, Chateaus Carbonnieux, Domaine de Chevalier, Haut-Medoc, Haut-Peyraguey, Left Bank, Malartic-Lagraviere, Margaux, Pauillac, Right Bank, Saint Estephe, Saint-Julien

Benevento Brunello

March 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Montalcino is a pretty medieval town in Italy’s Sienna providence. This area is the warmest and driest of Tuscan wine-growing regions. It is mostly known for Brunello wines, and is normally associated with high-quality Brunello di Montalcino wines. Montalcino winemaking started with Moscadello white Muscat wine production. In the early 14th century, Brunello red wines […]

Filed Under: Featured-City, Italy, Montalcino, Wine Events, Wine Region Tagged With: Brunello, Brunello di Montalcino, DOC, DOCG, Montalcino, Moscadello di Montalcino, Sangiovese, Sangiovese Grosso, Sant’Antimo DOC

Premiere Napa Valley Release Week Tastings: 2020

March 13, 2022 Leave a Comment

Premiere Napa Valley (PNV) is Napa Valley’s primary showcase event for futures auction of barrels of its most recent vintage wines. The event attracts wine professionals and those from the wine trade and media from around the world. It also attracts us. It gives us a chance to taste and report on vintages that we […]

Filed Under: Atlas Peak, California, Coombsville, Destinations, Dining, Featured-Trips, Howell Mountain, Napa, Napa, North America, Oakville, Pritchard Hill, Restaurants, Rutherford, Spring Mountain, St. Helena, Stags Leap, Travel, United States, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine Tasting, Yountville Tagged With: Angwin Estate, Chimney Rock Winery, Cliff Lede Vineyards, Coomsville, Cornerstone Cellars, Duckhorn Vineyards, Howell Mountain, Joseph Phelps Vineyards, Keenan Winery, Odette Vineyard, Provenance Vineyards, Robert Mondavi Winery, Rutherford, Stags Leap District, Yountville Appellation

San Francisco PinotFest 2019

November 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

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Farallon Restaurant has a long tradition of hosting an annual pinot noir tasting that draws pinot producers from around the U.S. and, less regularly, from other countries. It continued this tradition with its November 2019 PinotFest tasting. We attended the trade tasting on the day before the consumer tasting. We tasted more than 100 wines […]

Filed Under: Featured-Trips, Food & Wine, SF-Passion, SF-Wine/Wineries, Wine Events, Wine Tasting Tagged With: Alma Rosa, Bonasccorsi, Christom Vineyard, Domaine Drouhin, Dutton-Goldfield, Farallon Restaurant, Hartford Family, Melvill, Mount Difficulty, Rwomey, Sotor Vineyards, Testarossa, Thomas Fogarty, WALT, WillaKenzie

Anderson Valley Barrel Tasting 2019

July 28, 2019 Leave a Comment

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In case you haven’t figured it out yet,  we are passionate about wine. On any trip,we always scout out local wine regions to educate ourselves and our readers about wines, wine events and wine regions. Living in San Francisco, some of the best wine regions and events are close to home. Just two hours north […]

Filed Under: Destination Type, Featured-Trips, Food & Wine, SF-Passion, SF-Wine/Wineries, Travel, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: Anderson Valley, Bee Hunter, Brutocao Cellars, Domaine Anderson, Foursight Wines, Handley Cellars, Husch Vineyards, Lichen Estate, Lula Cellars, Meyers Family Cellars, Phillips Hill, Pinot Noir, Witching Stick Wines

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