Left Continue shopping
Your Order

You have no items in your cart

SF Local Blog: Wine & Spirits Stories, Events, Offers and more

Show tags
Stylized image of Amorotti bottle

A Jewel of Abruzzo (and a Pal of Valentini): Trebbiano and Montepulciano from Amorotti

One of the most exciting things about working in wine is being introduced to a new producer and then, in turn, introducing them to you — particularly when said new producer lives up to the hype. A few years ago, we were shown the wines from a tiny, new, organic Abruzzo estate, Amorotti, and we knew we had something special on our hands.
Posted on August 07, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
Read more
Stylized image of La Distesa Nocenzio 2018

Natural Gem that's ready to drink!

Corrado Dottori has been a star of the Natural Wine Movement(tm) since Jonathan Nossiter featured him in his film, Natural Resistance. But that's not why we love him. We love him because he makes beautiful wines that are wildly alive and also pure and delicious. They're fascinating if you want to pay attention, but crushable if you just want to drink something great.
Posted on August 04, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
Read more
Stylized image of Jean-Philippe Fichet Bourgogne Blanc

Fichet… Sought After White Burgundy

 Hard as it is for his long-time fans, it’s obviously fair: Fichet is as big a talent as they come and he's been a favorite of critics (including, notably, Burghound) since long before he became a darling of collectors. The good news is, we just got our allocation of his absolutely gorgeous 2022s.
Posted on July 31, 2024
Josh Shapiro
Read more
Stylized image of Baxter Pinot Noir

Poise and Precision from the Anderson Valley

Baxter Winery has been producing some of California's most aromatic and ethereal Pinot Noirs for almost 20 years, yet somehow they still remain fairly under the radar. Phillip Baxter Jr. works with some of Mendocino’s and in particular Anderson Valley's, best cool climate sites. The resulting wines are among the most deftly balanced and elegant this region, or really any California region, is producing today.
Posted on July 28, 2024
Josh Shapiro
Read more
Stylized image of Kumusha Wild Mutupo

Kumusha: Deliciousness in “Your Home”

Kumusha produces a range of South African minimal-intervention wines that are very budget-friendly. They are tasteful, delicious wines that showcase what this great African country, with its climate so close to the Mediterranean’s or California’s, but with its own distinctive set of soils and local traditions, can produce.
Posted on July 24, 2024
Paul Olson
Read more
Stylized image of Kopp wine bottle

Weingut Kopp: Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Fairyland

These are special wines, very different from the usual Pinots and Chards we get from Burgundy or California. It’s this kind of diversity that makes the world of wine so much fun. 
Posted on July 17, 2024
Josh Shapiro
Read more
Stylized image of Bedrock rose

An Homage to A Provençal Legend: Bedrock's 'Ode to Lulu' Rosé

The folks at Bedrock — one of California's great stewards of old vines — crafted “a love letter to Lulu” in the form of a Mourvèdre-based rosé, an homage to Tempier's benchmark version. Whole-cluster pressed and vinified in stainless steel, it has since become one of the most critically adored rosés made in the United States.
Posted on July 14, 2024
Josh Shapiro
Read more
Stylized image of Foillard wine

Foillard: From Aha! To Plain Delicious

For many of us, a bottle of Jean Foillad Morgon Côte du Py was one of the first “aha” wines: a wine so transportive and delicious that it stops you in your tracks and forces you to examine your life priorities. It’s the kind of wine that gets people into the wine business itself.
Posted on July 10, 2024
Josh Shapiro
Read more
Stylized image of Dila-O bottle

User (and Food)-Friendly Georgian Wine

Dila-O’s mission is to get Georgian wine into the hands of more people, and give you a window into Georgian life. We always say that wine is a fantastic way to understand a place and the culture within, and Dila-O has allowed us to put forth a perfect example of that.
Posted on July 07, 2024
Josh Shapiro
Read more
Stylized image of Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses 2017

Les Picasses 2017: Worth the Wait!

Even if you don't have anywhere to lay any bottles down, Raffault's "Les Picasses" is also an absolutely "outstanding" wine for drinking now. It's from a single vineyard of the same name – one of Chinon’s very finest. It's a site of pure, chalky "tuffeau" limestone, which gives a wine that is a different beast from the simpler bistro wines that mostly come from Chinon’s sandier and more gravelly sites.
Posted on July 03, 2024
Josh Shapiro
Read more
Stylized image of Copain pinot noir

Copain: Pinot, Young and Mature

It's been seven years since Galloni reviewed this classic Pinot Noir from New Wave OG producer, Copain, and we couldn't believe it when we recently got the chance to taste a bottle and see if Galloni was right that the ideal drinking time was, well, now. Spoiler alert: he was right!
Posted on June 30, 2024
Josh Shapiro
Read more
Stylized image of Venica bottle

Venica: Adventure at the Crossroads

Venica & Venica work specifically in Collio, a tract of land at the heart of these crossroads – so much so that the very vineyards have served as battlefields in the fight for territorial control among Austro-Hungarians, Yugoslavians, and Italian partisans. The soils of Collio are incredibly rich in minerals, and when you combine this with the Adriatic breeze and mountain freshness, you get some seriously delicious white wines.
Posted on June 26, 2024
Floribeth Kennedy
Read more
321 results