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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We strive to offer you the best of what’s out there in cheese, wine and beer. It’s a daunting job, as there are hundreds of cheeses, and thousands of wines and beers available to us here in the Bay Area.
If we make a wrong choice and select an item that doesn’t resonate [...]

Last March, I went to Spain as the guest of Jorgé Ordoñez Fine Wines from Spain. We visited many wine regions, and many wineries.

One of the highlights of the trio was a dinner at Restaurant Lera in Salamanca, Toro with the Eguren family, makers of Bodegas Numanthia Termanthia.
The restaurant [...]

There I was, in the private dining room at Spruce, a hot new San Francisco restaurant, sampling the wines of Betts and Scholl with Richard Betts (no, not the ex-lead guitarist of the Allman Brothers, the sommelier at The Little Nell in Aspen, surrounded by sommeliers from every hot restaurant in The City.
I felt [...]

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 [...]