Doesn’t a career in wine sound fun? Like your existence could be a delicious, sybaritic adventure full of wine-soaked dinners and a never-ending supply of fantastic bottles of wine to sample? Is this the image that has led me to my crazy current course of action? So in case I haven’t mentioned recently (and I’m [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sonoma’
Working in Wine
Posted in San Francisco, Uncategorized, Wine, Wine Country, tagged Napa, Restaurant, San Francisco, Sommelier, Sonoma, Wine, Winery on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wine Country Chronicles: Barrel Tasting
Posted in Wine, Wine Country, tagged Sonoma, Taste, Wine on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Every year, an organization called Wine Road Northern Sonoma County puts on an all-weekend-long event for wineries to offer barrel samples for their soon-to-be released vintages. It’s a lovely opportunity for people to get a sort of “sneak peek” at what the last year’s harvest has in store for them. It’s a simple enough arrangement: [...]
Wine Country Chronicles: The Shyness of Taste
Posted in Wine Country, tagged France, Napa, Sonoma, Taste, Wine, Writing on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Most of us have heard about the infamous tasting of 1976, where French and California wines were tasted blind by a panel of snobby French judges in Paris. The California wines rocked the house, much to everyone’s surprise. They’ve made movies and written books all about it. If you haven’t yet heard this fascinating tale, [...]
Wine Country Chronicles: The Beginning
Posted in Wine Country, tagged Napa, Sonoma, Wine on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Living in busy, compact San Francisco, sometimes I forget that we’ve got the gorgeous sprawling wine country for a backyard. As a child, my parents always dragged me along to tastings, where of course I couldn’t understand why they wanted to sip that vile stuff in dark cellars. And I’ve been up there as an [...]
