Farmstead Cheeses and Wines: Jeff’s Blog

We were walking to the British Museum, and spied this on the street… It was a quiet street, really not all that much to lose your head over….. Shank you velly mush, we’ll be in the lounge all week…..you’ve been a great audience, rully.

Carol and I were walking in the business district of Angers this past summer, and I was floored by the names of the brands offered by this designer jeans shop. It’s humorous to think how English is glamorized by folks who can’t speak it – never realizing that Pussy Denim might be offensive or demeaning [...]

One of the best things about my job is getting to select new products for the store. It’s a heavy responsibility actually: we’re such a tiny shop – crammed to the gills with product -  this means that when a product comes in, one has to leave. I’m visited daily by vendors proffering their wares, [...]

We’re proud to announce a very, very special event – a wine dinner at one of the Bay Area’s hottest new restaurants, Wood Tavern, featuring Pinot Noirs and other wines from New Zealand, courtesy of Swirl Wine Brokers, and hosted by New Zealand wine mavens Penny Loving and Ashley Boeyen. This very limited event will [...]

Here’s a link to a great article on Humboldt Fog, Morbier, and Mo-Bay in the September/October issue of Alameda Magazine. Carol attended a wine tasting a few months back and brought some cheese. One of the guests loved the stuff from our shop, and it turned out she was journalist Wanda Henning. She visited uthe [...]

We seem to be on a roll lately. Alameda Magazine named Farmstead Best Wine Retailer in their September issue, and said: “The cheese hardly stands alone in Jeff Diamond’s Marketplace enclave, which has inspired three pages of reviews on yelp.com, almost all of them five-star. Kudos accumulate of course for the bounty of handmade and [...]