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Feb 19, 2020
Get Boont
The little wine weekend formerly known as the International Alsace Varietals Festival is back from its “gap year.” And, if chardonnay’s your thing, the...
Feb 5, 2020
Making It
As I traipse up and down a strip of Commerce Blvd., the first question I have about Old Caz is not whether the brewery’s...
Jan 15, 2020
Bloody Good
This New Year, I’ve resolved to buy more organic products. I’ll support local farmers at the farmers market. And, of course, I’ll cut back...
Dec 11, 2019
Occidental Wines’ notable pinot
If I’d been asked to find a winery called Occidental Wines without a Google Maps assist, I’d have been lost in the hills.
But if...
Nov 27, 2019
Aha, Rioja
When I say Burgundy, you say Pinot Noir—the red wine grape of Burgundy that’s also made the Russian River Valley a famous wine region....
Nov 13, 2019
Pious Pinot
Surely the labors of countless vignerons in medieval Burgundy, centuries ago, were meant to produce a varietal wine that pairs particularly well with the...
Nov 6, 2019
Rock On
The smoke wasn’t quite as thick this year in wine country, but the love needn’t be any thinner. That spirit was on full display...
Oct 23, 2019
The Giving Grog
Traffic light. Disheveled dude, standing on the traffic island, turns to you with his cardboard sign. “Hungry—please help.” Buy a bottle of 2017 Frank...