Wine

When you want a special bottle of wine with dinner, which restaurants are your go-to's? OpenTable has some suggestions, sort of. The San Francisco-based online restaurant-reservation company recently released its latest Diners Choice Top 100 Restaura...

Why does someone go into a wine shop looking for a particular wine? That's the question I put to 10 wine merchants in the Sacramento region in recent days. Their answers surprised me. Not a single one volunteered that social media had played a role in ...

A little while back one of my readers had recommended a wine. That wine was Alexander Valley Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon. I hadn’t had an occasion to try it up until now. A friend of mine was coming to dinner. I had planned on making my favorite...

Here's the second installment in an anticipated series of postings based on stacks of notebooks I haven't looked at in ages, but which I'm scanning for jottings that may or may not have made it into column or story when I first put the pen to their pag...

To celebrate the upcoming Grocery Outlet wine sale, I am giving away a $25 gift card good at any area Grocery Outlet ! The big Wine Sale runs November 7th-11th and all wines are 20% off already bargain prices! I just love finding bargains at Grocery Outlet. They have the best deals on organic produce,...

I was dazzled by a lovely 2011 Semillon recently, crafted by winemaker Mark McKenna at Andis Wines in Amador County. This richly layered, well-structured wine bursts with ripe melon, quince, and peach flavors, and offers a delicate, floral-figgy-hon...

OK, the wine is called "Bone-Jolly." Its label is a traditionally jaunty salute to Dia de los Muertos, one calavera playing a guitar, another an accordion as they dance about a table set with wine. Cases of the stuff are stacked in the middle of the wi...

The Fresh Market opened their 127th store yesterday, October 24th in Roseville, CA. They are located on Douglas Boulevard (in Rocky Ridge Town Center) inside a former Borders bookstore. I was invited to a media preview on October 23rd to check out the store, meet some The Fresh Market team members, and taste some of...

Enotria's been on a roll of good press this week. This time, they are the only restaurant in the city of Sacramento to make OpenTable's list of Top 100 Wine Lists, reports Mark Anderson in Sac Biz Journal. California scored...

Got to do something about that stack of old notebooks that keeps falling over. Think I'll weed them out, finally discarding those for which I no longer sense a use. First, let's flip through each to see what kind of memories are tucked inside:- Here's ...