One of the great benefits of working at the best wine shop in the city is pairing gorgeous wines with their perfect partner! I want to thank our SF sales team for using their taste buds extraordinaire in creating an impressive and delectable lineup of holiday cheese and wine pairings for our 2nd Annual Big Cheese competition. Our team made their selections based on a process that considered each cheese's unique flavors and textures and how they complemented our wines.
Read MoreHappy New Year! I can’t think of a better way to kick off 2019 than to write about what’s going on over at Tablas Creek. They’re still making graceful, seductive Rhône Blends out of Paso Robles, but the way they are thinking about their land strikes me as an essential model for sustainability in California winemaking. They’re going above and beyond organic farming. They are building a complex, self-sustainable world on their 300+ acres, and they’re leaving the land even better than they found it. They’re putting carbon back into the soil to hold more water. They’re adding new species of grasses. They’re minimizing potential risks for fire. And they’re doing it all with sheep.
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