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Posts Tagged: wine
Craft Brewers Look to Santa Cruz
Emily Thomas, owner and brewer at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing was selected by the Brewers Association to speak at the annual Craft Brewers Conference last week in Washington, D.C. Thomas, a top micro-brewing entrepreneur talked at the brew-expo about creative fundraising, something she has done with flair at her popular brewery in the Ingalls Street complex.
Big Week for Santa Cruz Wine
Bonny Doon tasting room to move to Davenport, Pinot Paradise summit returns.
New Leaf’s Spring Cooking Classes
New Leaf cooking classes focus on cleansing foods, gluten-free brunch and paleo diets.
David Kinch’s Manresa Gets High Marks
According to Bon Appetit magazine, we have even more reason than ever to be culinarily smug. Santa Cruz resident David Kinch’s Manresa in Los Gatos, which has collected two Michelin stars, has now also been named among the twenty “Most Important” restaurants in the country. In fact, it was ranked # 5 (even above the hallowed Le Bernardin in New York). The editorial staff of the magazine chose these restaurants as defining how we eat out. “They’re the fearless spots that drive chefs to innovate, restaurateurs to imitate, and the rest of us to line up.”
Letters to the Editor, Feb. 13-19
One reader dismisses concerns about public water, while another gets deep into the real reason for corked wine.
Plastic Wine Plugs from Zork Cork
We discovered a bottle of delightful Sauvignon Blanc 2010 from a Sonoma estate named for an old adobe, Leese-Fitch. We found the wine itself light, crisp, lemon grassy and utterly easy to drink. The $10 price tag didn’t hurt, either. But what was most intriguing about this bottle of wine was its closure. Not a cork, nor the infamous Stelvin screw cap. It was something much, much different.
Post-Holiday Dining
Soif is closed until Jan. 11 for its annual refreshing, but the restaurant at Casablanca Inn & Bistro is closed for renovations prompted by what a spokesperson called “damage from a recent storm.” There’s no word on when the beachfront landmark will reopen. So meanwhile, there’s Michael’s on Main, continually reinventing itself, most recently by opening its kitchen up on Tuesdays to ambitious guest chefs.
New Year’s Eve Dining News
‘A restaurant requires 200 percent of an owner’s time,’ admitted winemaker Randall Grahm, whose large-scale restaurant will close as of December 31. ‘Til then, fans of chef Ryan Shelton’s cooking—and his wife Oomi’s cosmic pastries—still have a few more days to stop by.
Q&A: Barry Jackson
Barry Jackson is the winemaker for Equinox Champagne and Bartolo Wine, which he co-owns with his wife, Jennifer.
