Livermore Valley’s 5th Annual Barrel Tasting Weekend! Taste wines right out of the barrel, meet winemakers, and more. Each winery will host a unique experience during barrel tasting weekend including at least one barrel sample for each ticket holder. This is your chance to per-purchase wines before they have even bottled (aka “futures”)!   Barrel

If you want to have fun at the Pinot Noir Summit, you better keep your clothes on. At least, that is what Barbara Drady would say, Chief Wine Evangelist and head honcho of the 11th Annual Pinot Noir Summit. In her own words, “It’s about the most fun you can have with Pinot with your

California’s iconic Pebble Beach Resorts, home to legendary golf, equestrian, and classic-car events, plays host to the Sixth Annual Pebble Beach Food & Wine, presented by FOOD&WINE Magazine, from April 4-7, 2013. Following the much-heralded success of last year’s Fifth Anniversary, Pebble Beach Food & Wine continues its reign as the premier food and wine

Drink Careers 101 Have you ever considered a career working with wine, beer, spirits, coffee, tea or soda? Looking to get a job in the beverage industry and don’t know where to begin? We’ve got the lowdown on how to get a gig in the beverage business from industry insider Alan Kropf. Kropf was recently

Former Bachelor Ben Flajnik’s Wine Wins Again Looking to taste the best red or white wine in the world? The results are in from the largest competition of American wines in the world, and over 5,000 wine lovers filled the 2013 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Public Tasting at the Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion

Petite Sirah, did you know that we love you and pairing Petite Sirah is both dark and delicious! We love your full, big, bold, blueberry flavor, with hints of black pepper and meaty notes. You pair well with just about anything rich, especially BBQ pork. Yes, you make our world go around because of the