SF News Livermore Winery Owner Mitchell Katz Killed in a Friday Car Accident A sad weekend for the Tri-Valley winery scene, as Mitchell Katz Winery founder and owner Mitchell Katz was killed in a Friday automobile accident in Livermore, as his family has confirmed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Elyse Winery Having made about a hundred and nine trips to wine country, we're definitely over the big name, flashy, tchotchke- and gift-laden tasting rooms serving up merely drinkable wine at high-
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Good Wines For Thanksgiving Turkey The truth of the matter is, you can drink almost anything with turkey dinner -- most full-bodied, earthy, or well-balanced red wines, and many German, or Rhône-style whites will do the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Good Trader Joe's Wines Under $8 Not that long ago, the idea of respectable non-jug, non-box wines for under $10 -- the kind of wine you could bring to a foodie dinner party without feeling like a cheap
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Top Chef: Las Vegas</em> Will Finish Season In Wine Country For the final couple of episodes, the cast of Bravo's ever so popular chef showdown relocated from Sin City to our neck of the woods, staying at the Le Mars Hotel
SF News Korbel Family Scandal Settled "Throughout the Universe" We hope you've been keeping up with the crazy family rape-and-money scandal going on between Korbel Champagne Cellars owner Gary Heck and his 39-year-old daughter Richie Ann
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Astrale e Terra Winery In our search for small-scale wine producers to visit in our nearby wine regions, we're always glad to find start-up wineries making excellent wines to a small, devoted audience.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Wine Apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch Nobody we know really strives to be a wine snob, but a person can always come off sounding like one in mixed (read: non-Bay Area) company when it comes to choosing or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Quivira Vineyards It's harvest time in Napa and Sonoma, and a lot of grapes have already been plucked from the vines and sent to be crushed, eventually to make their way to your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Loxton Cellars Just north of the center of Glen Ellen is an unassuming tasting room and winemaking facility, Loxton Wines. It's a large metal shed, essentially, and the place is owned and operated
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Hess Collection After admitting our preference for the Sonoma side of things, we'll give a little attention today to Napa, where both a winery and a world-class art gallery sit atop Mount
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Preston of Dry Creek A couple weeks back we filled in the Friday Drinks column with a post about Cline Cellars, and today we're back with the launch of a new column about local wineries
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Cline Cellars in Sonoma We're taking a break from the regular cocktail column today to highlight one of our favorite wineries in the Greater Bay Area, Cline Cellars. Situated at the south end of Hwy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Presidio Winery Nixed, Probably for Something You Will Never Want to Visit In an effort to drive people away from the Presidio, rendering it completely inaccessible to anything that resembles interesting, the Presidio Trust nixed plans last month for Foggy Bridge Winery. Because neighbors complained
