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The character driven wines of Charlie & Echo

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Medal-laden local wineries from the bay

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Kettner's grape pushback

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The character driven wines of Charlie & Echo

San Diego’s larger-than-you-think wine industry has emerged from the shadow of craft beer, and it’s primarily thanks to a growing national reputation among fans of natural wines. Among the local ...

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Medal-laden local wineries from the bay

A large group of San Diego beverage producers have brought home a pile of medals from a prestigious national competition, and this time we're not talking about beer. The San ...

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San Diego wines catching on?

A new study commissioned by the San Diego County Vintners Association reports the economic impact of the San Diego wine industry reached $30.4 million in 2016. Written by economic analyst ...

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Kettner's grape pushback

"Stop and smell the rosé,” says the sidewalk sign. Huh. Are we seeing the start of a wine pushback, after all these glorious beer years? This is happening quite a ...

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A couple of years ago, while researching San Diego urban wineries, I interviewed Lowell Jooste. He’d moved here a while back from South Africa, where his family has been in the wine business for four ...

May 7, 2017

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Linda Vista Wine

How much more black could it be?

Down in the sunblasted “heel” of Italy, grapes with thick, black skins flourish in the baking sunlight. The wines produced from such crops are quintessentially Italian in their boldness and, if I might go out ...

August 14, 2016

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August 13, 2016

Warm summer nights, wine, and you

Between the twist cap and the tongue-in-cheek copy and imagery — “Giocato is made by Aleks Simic, one of Europe’s greatest (and most humble) winemakers” on the back of the label, while the front depicts ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Hillcrest Wine

June 25, 2016

It can cleanse fish-and-chips with just one sip

Vinavanti Urban Winery’s tasting notes for their BPN get it mostly right. The quirky, pseudo blanc de noirs do indeed taste of raw cranberries and just-ripe raspberries. They fail to mention the green apple tint, ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Normal Heights Wine

June 20, 2016

Overripe cherries, before the squirrels got to them

Since the state is shaped like a mitten, Michiganders often hold up their left hand so that they can point to where they’re from. Italians are generally too proud to point to a thigh-high boot, ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Ramona Wine

June 2, 2016

Hello, gorgeous

“Are we anticipating ketchup tonight?” This may be the most delightful phrase I’ve heard spoken by a server so far this year. The beauty of it is in the anticipation of the ketchup itself, rather ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews North Park Wine

May 24, 2016

Assertive licorice

In 2012, Utah’s happy hour ban went into effect, adding that state to a short list of others that consider special prices on alcoholic drinks a source of great social harm. Later that year, Hurricane ...

Feast! Restaurant Reviews Morena Wine

April 25, 2016

Tasting the beast

Near as I can tell, Buty Vineyards produces Beast wine as the experimental section of their operation in Washington’s Columbia Valley. For this particular bottling, the winemakers blended Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, and Mourvèdre (if ...

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Young, white wine in the La Jolla sunshine

You can’t help but like the way the sun streams into a southwest exposure during the afternoon in Bird Rock. This time of year, it slides in obliquely, without the driving force of summer, but ...

April 16, 2016

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A grape mission

He won’t say how he got it, but Steve “Kim” Moreno says he has a cutting from one of the original Mission vines that Father Junípero Serra brought up with him from Mexico in 1769. ...

November 15, 2015

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February 11, 2015

San Diego urban wineries: Blue Door, San Pasqual, SD Cellars, Vinavanti, Fifty Barrels

Most people’s impression is that San Diego’s wine is crappy.

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