Even the most closeted of bacon lovers were smiling with sheer, glistening-cheeked delight on Friday evening, March 23, 2013, at the Hotel Healdsburg, for Charlie Palmer’s 8th annual pork-based phantasmagoria, Pigs & Pinot. A benefit for Share Our Strength, the leading national organization working to end childhood hunger in America, Pigs & Pinot also supports

Bravium Winery’s proprietor and winemaker Derek Rohlffs announced more than $15,000 in cash and wine donations to charities from his Sip&Give campaign. Sip&Give gives wine lovers the power to do good. Put simply, you sip and they give. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of all Bravium and artisan wines – from its

Game of Thrones season 3 premiere kicks off March 31, and most Thronee’s/GOTer’s I know will want a skin of wine to pair with their favorite fantasy novel turned hit HBO show, and for that we are serving up several Game of Thrones Wine Pairings worthy of Westeros and the REALM. No matter where you

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