Category: Activities & Events

Taste Natural Wines from Women Winemakers at WINeFare: June 4, San Francisco
It’s been a long road to get here. And let’s be clear, we aren’t anywhere close to being where we

The Garagiste Wine Festival: April 30, Sonoma
Hey wine lover! Yeah, you. Wanna go taste some interesting wines this coming Saturday? And by interesting, I mean probably

2022 Napa Wine Library Tasting: April 24, Napa
Spring is in the air, folks, and a lot less virus. And it’s not just the flowers that are blossoming,

Introducing the Healdsburg Wine and Food Experience, May 20-22
Seeing the resumption of wine and food events warms my heart. But in addition to the perennial events that many

Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Festival: May 20-22, Philo, CA
Exciting things are happening in Anderson Valley. Regular readers will know this thanks to my fairly comprehensive report on the

Back to the Zinfandel Experience: March 25-27, San Francisco
Public wine tasting events are back, and the folks from Zinfandel Advocates and Producers have appropriately purloined Back to the

2022 Hospice du Rhône: April 22-23, Paso Robles, CA
It’s been a long time in coming, but I’m pleased to say that I’m going to start posting about wine

The Judgment of Napa: Tasting Napa Blind Against the World’s Greatest Wines
On May 24th, 1976, a couple of ex-pats living in Paris rented the courtyard of the Intercontinental hotel for a

Wine Writing in 2020: Where Do We Stand?
The pandemic has disrupted and ruined so many well-laid plans. One of mine was to attend the Wine Media Conference

Explore The Spectrum of Napa Cabernet With Me, Sept 8th
UPDATE: This event was rescheduled from its earlier date and will now be held on September 8th at 10:00 AM

WINeFare Women in Natural Wine Tasting: March 7, San Francisco
The wine world, tied as it is to cultural and historical traditions (or boat anchors, depending on your point of

2020 Sonoma Garagiste Festival: February 15, Sonoma
One of my favorite pastimes involves tasting wines made by small winemakers who either are just beginning their journeys to

Vinography Images: Mirror to the Sky
Mirror to the Sky SANTA YNEZ, CA: Reflections on the irrigation pond at Grimm’s Bluff Vineyard & Winery are viewed

2020 Zinfandel Experience: February 1, San Francisco
Once upon a time, there was a lonely grape, taken far from its homeland in Croatia, planted in a strange

Top 100 Tasting Comes to NYC for the First Time: January 14th
Once per year I wax rhapsodic about what I feel is the single best publicly available one-day wine tasting event

2019 Wine & Spirits Top 100 Tasting: October 10, San Francisco
There are wine tastings, and then there are wine tastings. The annual Wine & Spirits Magazine Top 100 Tasting is

57th Annual Napa Wine Library Tasting: August 4, Napa
Dedicated wine lovers in the San Francisco Bay area get several opportunities each year to indulge their passions for wine.

Seven Percent Solution Tasting: June 2, Los Angeles
There comes a point in every intrepid wine lover’s life when the well-traveled road must be left behind. One can

Signature Sonoma Valley Icon Tasting: May 17, 2019, Sonoma
Most people, when they come visit me in San Francisco and ask to be taken to wine country, assume that