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Je suis desolé avec le 2005 La Bastide Saint-Dominique Châteauneuf-du-Pape Les Secrets de Pignan

June 29, 2010

Just to celebrate the middle of the week last Wednesday, we opened a bottle of one of my favorite wines: La Bastide Saint-Dominique Châteauneuf-du-Pape Les Secrets de Pignan. We discovered this wine by chance while dining at Chez Papa, a French restaurant here on Potrero Hill in San Francisco. I took Steven there to celebrate [...]

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Beringer Vineyards, Napa County

June 23, 2010

We spent an afternoon at Beringer two Saturdays past, sort of last minute. We had just been to Paraduxx.  It was o.k.  Hegui was ready to go home but I was restless and wanted more.  We ended up here while looking for gas.  Our tank light had turned on while we were on a sight-seeing [...]

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wine tasting with blinders on: what’s the point?

June 14, 2010

The other day, the latest edition of Wine Spectator arrived in the mail. The one with Manfred Krankl of Sine Qua Non grinning all the way to the bank on the cover. I’m a huge fan of this magazine (Thanks for turning me onto it, Whit!) As usual, I was delighted with Matt Kramer’s column, [...]

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the 2009 Bordeaux vintage: wine merchants in hysterics or hysterically good?

June 9, 2010

I got the 2009 Bordeaux Vintage Report from K and L Wine Merchants in the mail the other day. They’re rhapsodically praising it with a mathematical formula printed in large lettering right on the cover: “’2009 = 1947X + 1982Y + 2005Z’ or ‘PURE CASHMERE’” Now I majored in mathematics in college so this complex [...]

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Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Napa County

June 8, 2010

A few of the weirdcombos crew headed up to Napa for wine tasting recently. The weather here in Northern California has been unseasonably wet but we were blessed with a gorgeous sun-shiny day and pleasant temperatures in the low-70’s: perfect for exploring the region and enjoying some cabernet. Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is famous in [...]

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Darioush, Napa County

June 2, 2010

Darioush has to be one of those Napa winery must-see places if only because of the spectacular facility and stunning wine tasting room. The WC crew had visited before a few years ago but as we’d been tasting all day and our palates were fatigued, we skipped the wine and simply admired the place and [...]

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South African syrah home tasting

May 25, 2010

It’s almost June and World Cup time! Did you see the recent cover of Vanity Fair magazine? There’s a pic of the footballers Christiano Ronaldo from Portugal and Didier Drogba from Ivory Coast only wearing underwear in the colors of their home countries. Inside there’re more Annie Leibovitz pics of important players in the same [...]

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wine.com retail outlet, Berkeley

May 20, 2010

I do occasionally shop for wine online mostly from K and L in San Francisco. They have a marvelous web site! I also browse the sites for San Francisco’s The Wine Club and The Wine House and have even ordered some hard-to-find wines on the latter site, especially when they offer it for less than [...]

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Celebrate South Africa 2010, San Francisco

May 11, 2010

I heard about this super fun South African wine tasting event from a very popular wine blog and just had to go. It is World Cup season next month and South Africa is the host nation. (Go Brazil!!!) What a delightful excuse to drink South African wines, as if one ever really needed one. I’m [...]

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two delicious 2008 Penfold’s reds for under ten!

May 7, 2010

Shopping for wine at Trader Joe’s was a huge treat when we first moved to California from New York about seven years ago. The prices are incredible and the selection is much broader than anything we ever went to in Queens. (Come to think of it, did our supermarket in Astoria even sell wine at [...]

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