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Exploring Stags Leap District Unknown Wineries

May 2, 2013 Leave a Comment

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This last weekend, as discussed in our April 15, 2013 post, was the Stags Leap’s District annual celebration of the appellations vintners and wines. We attended one of the Vineyard to Vintner Weekend’s three events: Saturday’s Open Houses in which 19 wineries opened their facilities and their caves for tours, meet-the-winemaker events, music and merriment. Then […]

Filed Under: Events, Napa, SF-Wine/Wineries, Wine Events, Wine Tasting Tagged With: Napa, Stags Leap, Wine events, wine pairings

Napa’s Stags Leap District Stages its Annual Vineyard to Vintner (V2V) Weekend

April 15, 2013 Leave a Comment

Stags Leap is, as we have discussed in a number of posts, one of our favorite cab appellations. We are, therefore, anxiously awaiting our first chance to participate in their annual blow-out Vineyard to Vintner weekend, where dozens of the district’s wineries pull out all stops to present their newly released wines. …

Filed Under: Napa, SF-Wine/Wineries, Wine Events Tagged With: Napa, Wine events, wine pairings, wine tasting

Epicuria: Food & Zinfandel Pairings—ZAP Does it Again!

February 26, 2013 Leave a Comment

We always look forward to the Zinfandel Advocates and Producer (fondly know n as ZAP) annual Zinfandel Festival. The festival has four primary parts: A Grand Tasting which, this year, featured more than 500 Zins from more than 200 producers and attracted 8,000 people: Flights, which provide winemaker-hosted …

Filed Under: Dining, Restaurants, SF-Dining, SF-Wine/Wineries, Wine Events, Wine Tasting Tagged With: San Francisco, Wine events, wine pairings, Zinfandel

Epicuria: Food & Zinfandel Pairings—ZAP Does it Again!

February 26, 2013 Leave a Comment

We always look forward to the Zinfandel Advocates and Producer (fondly know n as ZAP) annual Zinfandel Festival. The festival has four primary parts: A Grand Tasting which, this year, featured more than 500 Zins from more than 200 producers and attracted 8,000 people: Flights, which provide winemaker-hosted …

Filed Under: Dining, Restaurants, SF-Dining, SF-Wine/Wineries, Wine Events, Wine Tasting Tagged With: San Francisco, Wine events, wine pairings, Zinfandel

Epicuria: Food & Zinfandel Pairings—ZAP Does it Again!

February 26, 2013 Leave a Comment

We always look forward to the Zinfandel Advocates and Producer (fondly know n as ZAP) annual Zinfandel Festival. The festival has four primary parts: A Grand Tasting which, this year, featured more than 500 Zins from more than 200 producers and attracted 8,000 people: Flights, which provide winemaker-hosted …

Filed Under: Dining, Restaurants, SF-Dining, SF-Wine/Wineries, Wine Events, Wine Tasting Tagged With: San Francisco, Wine events, wine pairings, Zinfandel

Healdsburg Mushroom Weekend

February 25, 2013 Leave a Comment

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The Sonoma town of Healdsburg held its second annual Mushroom Weekend The weekend of February 23. Having partaken of a previous year’s mushroom weekend at Sea Ranch, we were up for another effort. Mushroom Foraging and Feed The Healdsburg event included a range of activities, from multi-course mush dinners, …

Filed Under: Dining, Nature & Hiking, SF-Dining, SF-Nature/Hiking, SF-Wine/Wineries, Wine Events, Wine Region Tagged With: mushrooms, Sonoma, Wine events, wine pairings