Nestled in a brick building on Telegraph in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland is a wonderful little wine shop you might almost drive past in your hurry to get there. Luckily, I have pretty quick reflexes (in other words, no one was behind me) and made a sharp turn into the parking lot. Walking around the […]
A while back, I said I would write about the 2005 JC Cellars The Flip Side. Except I didn’t know what was in it. Having bought the bottle on my first visit to the winery back in October, I only remembered the tasting room gal mentioning that Jeff (Cohn, as in ‘JC’) had put the […]
Last night I went to a meeting for the East Bay Vintners’ passport event that will occur Saturday, April 5 (more details to follow). But here’s the fun thing: we met at Periscope Cellars, located in Emeryville in an old submarine repair facility. And I was told in passing that Top Chef season 1 was […]
This could be one crazy weekend for me. It’s Open House, which is crazy enough by itself, but I think this one is going to be super busy. We sold tickets online for only the third time, and yesterday afternoon found the cap of 800 for today already reached, with plenty of people calling to […]
That’s the topic of our next wine seminar at Rosenblum Cellars. Not that there’s any magic answer to how long to hold on to a bottle, but we will explore ways you can make an educated guess. Plus, I timed this class to come right before Open That Bottle Night 9 so that I can […]
I’ve mentioned in past posts that you should be ‘practicing’ your nose every chance you get. Sniff those spices, go crazy in the produce section, etc. That’s why I had so much fun with the component analysis seminar I co-taught on Wednesday evening. Getting ready for it was a great deal of work, but it wasn’t a […]
Not exactly wine news, I know, but it was fun to be a part of something big and just down the road from the winery where I work. Last night, I tasted Absinthe for the first time–in Alameda, the night before St. George Spirits started selling to the masses today for $75 a bottle. Forbidden Island, […]
I don’t think I’ve ever talked about the teaching part of my past before. It was something I was interested in as a kid and later in high school when I taught Sunday School at Holy Savior Catholic Church and with my Girl Scout troop who was always teaching younger girls songs and crafts. But […]
Readers and drinkers, the other day I asked you for wine shop advice for my neck of the woods. Well, thanks to a co-worker, I checked out an unusual source for wine today and may have hit the jackpot. The Grocery Outlet (Bargains Only! they say) in Oakland, on Broadway between 29th and 30th, may […]
If you know that JC Cellars shares a tasting room with Dashe, you may have been wondering why I didn’t mention it in my last post…. I did taste there, too, but decided that even though the two wineries share a facility and a tasting room, they should be treated as two separate entities, which […]
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