It has been sweltering hot in San Francisco in the past couple of days.  Of course, as some of you may know, “hot” in San Francisco doesn’t have quite the same meaning as it does anywhere else.  For example, I remember when we first moved to the Bay Area from New York City, and we overheard someone characterize 80-degree weather as a heat […]

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Last night’s Wine Library TV show (click the link to view the episode at WLTV) was about the Chenin Blanc grape and how it deserved more respect — this couldn’t have been better timing from our perspective, because just a couple of nights ago we opened one of our favorite ever bottles of that varietal: Prince Poniatowski’s Clos […]

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