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A map of S.F. Wine Country

This week, I looked at the elements that have come together to make San Francisco into the new Wine Country — wineries within the city limits, a proliferation of in-town winery owners, even tasting...

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How big a deal is urban Wine Country?

Robert Pellegrini The Pellegrini winery bottled wine in southern San Francisco until 1957. It’s worth briefly circling back to the topic of San Francisco as the new Wine Country. The urban winery story...

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The wine-oyster connection

What is it with wine people and oysters? I can’t think of another food that so intrigues the wine-minded (save possibly ramen, and that’s a whole other story). I’m equally guilty of this, which is...

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Chefs.Food.Wine … and cocktails

thechancellorhotel.blogspot.com Cocktails under the Big Tent. There was much to enjoy about the inaugural SF Chefs.Food.Wine event last weekend — including a lot of pretty impressive wine, fulfilling...

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Smuggler’s Cove makes its debut

Jon Bonne/The Chronicle A view from “the hut.” The day of rum reckoning has come for Martin Cate and Smuggler’s Cove. Cate, who earned Bar Star status at Alameda’s Forbidden Island, has spent months...

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Mr. Wizard steps behind the bar

Jon Bonne/The Chronicle Once you’ve got shaker technique down, it’s on to liquid nitrogen. It’s helpful that I have categories on this blog for both “cocktails” and “science,” because last night’s...

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Tasting notes: Marina vs. Burlingame

Nectarwinelounge.com I had another blog post ready to roll but while hunting through Nectar Wine Lounge’s web site I came across this curious dissonance. Nectar has locations in both the Marina...

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Ready for Beer Week?

Flickr/sfbeerweek.org This year’s SF Beer Week starts Friday (full schedule here) — and “SF” barely seems to cover it; events are happening from Santa Cruz to Calistoga. You pretty well can’t trip over...

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A wine tasting for San Franciscans

Flickr.com This year’s tasting will be at Fort Mason. <!– The Chronicle A scene from last year’s tasting. –> One of my favorite wine-tasting events is coming up again this weekend. No, not the...

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Heart and the matter of the Mason jars

Kat Wade/Special to The Chronicle For our latest Bar Bites I tackled the Valencia St. wine bar/gallery known as Heart. Heart fills one of those strange gaps in San Francisco nightlife in that it...

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