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We spent the afternoon in San Francisco yesterday.  Bill got his mom some  McEvoy Ranch organic olive oil at the Ferry Building Marketplace on the SF waterfront.  Walking to the building from the parking lot, we saw a new restaurant that I want to check out soon.  It’s called La Mar Cebichería Peruana and it [...]

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Last Saturday was Passport Wine Weekend in the Santa Cruz Mountains. On weekends like this, almost all of the wineries in the Santa Cruz viticultural region throw their doors open for wine tasting. Customers buy a “passport” for $30. Armed with that passport, you can go to all participating wineries and taste their wines and [...]

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Good evening. MonkeyBoy the sommelier here. Ooops. I almost forgot that I’ve just been christened as AstroMonkey. But anyway…
Tonight we are pouring a Foley Santa Rita Hills pinot noir, 2003. It was given to me by Bill when I recently visited him in Florida. He discovered this wine over [...]

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Tonight we are pouring a Piemonte Barbera, 2003, from Italy. The store signage labeled it as a “great everyday wine”. $5.99 from the Wine Club in Santa Clara.
YUCK.
Flat, tannic, metallic, vaguely bitter.
Smells good, though.
But, all in all…
SWILL!!!

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Hello again. Monkeyboy the sommelier here. Tonight we are having a Clos la Chance Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon, 2003. I opened a bottle earlier because I made some spaghetti sauce, and I often like to pour a cup of red wine into the sauce to add a little bit of complexity to [...]

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I had a horrible on-call day (and night) yesterday. Yet another perfect example why I absolutely hate being on-call for my company. So, to reward myself, I decided to open a bottle of McHenry Estate Bottled pinot noir, 2002.
This is a wondefully drinkable pinot noir that comes from a small winery in the [...]

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