Wine Road’s Barrel Tasting Recap
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Wine Oh TV’s Grape Escapes
In this video, Wine Oh TV’s Monique Soltani makes a Grape Escape to Taft Street and Baletto to check out all our summertime favorites. The official kick off to summer is this weekend. Memorial Day means it’s time to bust out the barbecue, pack a picnic and break out a bottle! With the switch of seasons, many
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Taft Street Introduces – A Little Street Music
Taft Street Winery is excited to announce its summer music series – A LITTLE STREET MUSIC. On the last Sunday of the month from May through August some of Sonoma County’s most popular bands will perform in our outdoor picnic area adjacent to our newly renovated Tasting Room. This summer’s acts include Bottle Shock, Blue
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Sraracha Chicken Nuggets
I’ve been fooling around with this recipe for the last couple of months. You can limit yourself to wings here, but I like the various chicken parts. INGREDIENTS: ¼ cup sraracha sauce ½ stick butter 2 tablespoons cider vinegar 1 tablespoon minced garlic 1 4-5 pound chicken; wings split, thighs cut in two, each half
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May Flowers
The skies are blue, the weather is warm and the vines are in that important stage of flowering. Warm weather appears to be in store for the next week or so, and growers are cautiously optimistic about this first critical aspect of the growing season. In the cellar, Evelyn is waiting for our new screw
Good Old Beans
We should eat more beans. They’re good for us, tasty, and easy to prepare. We cooked 20 pounds of them for our birthday party – here’s a more reasonable amount. 1 pound dried beans, washed and drained Water and chicken stock Onion, quartered 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 16 oz can whole tomatoes Salt and
Happy 30th Birthday Taft Street!
Who wudda thunk? Thirty years ago, on April 1,1982 six intrepid travelers left the confines of the garage on Taft Street in Oakland, and journeyed north to the soon to be famous Russian River Valley. Here we began making wines from local vineyards, and immediately discovered the suitability of Chardonnay to local soils. Sauvignon Blanc
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New Release: 2008 Garagistes Pinot Noir
Classic Pinot Noir. New for 2012. We are very excited to share this wine with our family and friends. This wine is a homage to the “garagistes” tradition of crafting small lots of outstanding fruit in other than a chateaux environment – in our case our experience in the 1970’s as winemakers in the Taft Street
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Colcannon
With St. Patrick’s Day approaching Irish cuisine is in the air. Colcannon goes well with corned beef. Traditionally it is made with cabbage, but I like Tuscan Kale for the color contrast. Any cabbage, chard or kale will work. INGREDIENTS 1 bunch Tuscan kale, stemmed and chopped I pound medium potatoes (Yukon Gold) 2 leeks
Sonoma Spring
The vineyards are ablaze with mustard and wild flowers, the vineyards have been pruned and mowed, and warm days alternate with periods of much needed rain. It’s springtime in Sonoma. The big news in the wine industry is the sharp change in the bulk market. With two lighter than normal harvests in a row and