An occasional blog from and about Farmstead Cheeses and Wines, Alameda and Montlcair California’s choice for fine wines and artisan cheeses. Peppered with comments, Jeff’s musings and articles in local publications, as well as photos from Jeff and Carol’s travels in search of the best food and wine, the Farmstead Blog is a fun way to keep in touch with the store.
Wine Dinner Fran Kysela Oct 21
Wine Dinner with Fran Kysela
October 21 @ The Bay Wolf
We’re proud to announce our first wine dinner of the Fall, featuring one of the wine world’s great personalities and palates - Fran Kysela, the mind behind Kysela Père et Fils, a world class wine importer (and the importer [...]
Sometimes I lead a charmed life. I was invited to have lunch today with another of my wine heroes -Terry Theise - at one of my favorite restaurants, The Wood Tavern. I had expected the usual sort of Wine Lunch - 15-20 folks, a boatload of wines, and little face time. When [...]
What a transition - after 18 hours in transit (Mendoza, Santiago, Dallas Fort Worth, San Francisco), I’m met at the San Francisco airport by Mrs. Cheesemonger.
We say adieu to our Bay Area compatriots (Meryll from JV in Napa, Jim from Wine Steward in Pleasanton, JP and Andy from Angeles/Kysela), and pile into the [...]
If you had told me that I was going to spend 24 hours on a cramped bus in order to taste wines for two hours and have a dinner with a charming winemaking family, I’d have thought you were nutso, but I did, and I don’t.
The next morning, we met at 7AM for the 12 [...]
We traveled back from the Estancia tired but happy, and arrived at the hotel a little after dark (we’re in the height of winter, and have about 10 hours of daylight - from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.). After a wee siesta, some of us gathered in the hotel and wandered around in search [...]
We woke up and piled into the vans for a trip out to Chakana Winery a beautiful modern facility set in the Agrelo sub appellation.
Chakana makes the Maipe and Cueva brands with and for Fran - well priced wines priced from $12-16/ bottle. Produced in the Luján de Cuyo subregion of [...]
Hello. I’m writing from the Santiago airport where I am enduring an eight hour layover. Our Miami-Santiago flight was late and we missed our cross Andes flight by ten minutes!
One of my new wine pals, Paul from Top Ten Wines in Columbia Mo and I paid the day fee to enter an airport [...]
Today, we visit the wineries of Charles Back.
Charles is arguably the CRobert Mondavi of South Africa, producing great wines in a user friendly, marketing-centric environment. He’s the mind behind Fairview, Goats do Roam and Spice Route wineries, and the head of a bustling food and wine empire, producing 25 different varieties of cheese, and [...]
Today, we were supposed to go to Table Mountain to see the views and unique plant species that live there, but the weather was bad, so we tried plan B, a walking tour of Capetown, followed by a traditional Cape Malay lunch at a restaurant on the top of Signal Hill.
Capetown architecture is [...]
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