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Bringing Rhone Rangers to Your Living Room
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Better alert Stephen Hawking because it’s almost like we’ve broken the space time continuum. I mean, how else would it be possible to participate in the Rhone Rangers Grenache tasting which actually takes place on Saturday March 27 from 2:45-4PM PST in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center while you’re sitting on your couch in Boca Raton on [...]
Tags: aver family, brixr, curtis winery, david girard vineyards, Edward Sellers, holly's hill, katin, petrali, pug wines, purple teeth cellars, qupe, rhone rangers, sawtooth winery, sierra vista winery, skinner vineyards, sol rouge, Spangler Vineyards, stage left cellars, tasting packs, tercero wines, terry hoage, unti, Wine 2.0, wine tasting
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Cooking for a Cause
Monday, January 25th, 2010Next week on Feb. 4 we’re hosting a fantastic event here at Crushpad called Cooking for a Cause. You’ll be able to sample gourmet delicacies from around the globe and hear John Wood, the founder of Room to Read, tell you about how they help millions of kids in some of the most resource [...]
Tags: Crushpad Events, literacy, parties that cook, room to read
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The 2009 Fusebox Blend-Off Championships
Monday, October 19th, 2009You’ve heard of cookoffs, playoffs and at the ballot box even runoffs. This year we’re introducing a new kind of off and it’s a blend-off. That’s right a blend-off. As in a winemaking blendoff between ten illustrious wine bloggers. We hereby give you the first annual 2009 fusebox blend-off competition.
We’ve armed each of these dynamic [...]
Tags: cabernet, cabernet franc, contest, fusebox blendoff, merlot, napa, Wine 2.0, wine blending, winemaking
Posted by noah in Crushpad Events, Products, Wine 2.0, Wine Making Videos, Wine Making at Crushpad | 1 Comment »
Want some education with your wine?
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Crushpad has long been known for its custom barrel wine program, but did you know that we also have classes on wine and wine tasting? Resident wine education wizard Stu Ake teaches people about the finer points of sipping and spitting, terroir differences in their favorite styles of wine, and leads [...]
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Tarabini Speaks.
Monday, April 13th, 2009Damian Rae Winery and San Francisco Wine Association president John Tarabini recently spoke with the San Francisco Chronicle in their 3 Questions column. He’s doing some great things with both projects and he gave Crushpad some love in the interview. Thanks John!
Speaking of the SFWA, they’re hosting a Spring Fling tasting on May 7 at [...]
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Stinky Washed Rinds and Burrata
Thursday, April 9th, 2009On the eve of the California Artisan Cheese Festival, we gathered for a night of wine and unique domestic cheeses. Adam Sanchez, Executive Chef with Ladies Who Lunch, teamed with Stuart Ake to pair the cheeses with barrel samples and finished wines from Crushpad. Before joining Ladies Who Lunch, Adam was cheese buyer at the [...]
Tags: cheese, class, crushpad, event, wine, winemaking
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Bud Break and BBQ in Dry Creek
Monday, April 6th, 2009Spring is both an exciting and nerve wracking time for growers. As buds burst from the winter slumber, sleepless nights ensue as vineyard managers fret over rainfall totals, pests, bouts of frost, a catalog of molds & mildews and a dictionary of vine diseases. ‘T’ain’t easy. Despite of (or because of) the challenges growers face, [...]
Tags: crushpad, dry creek, viticulture, wine, winemaking, zinfandel
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Community Crush Barrel Tasting
Monday, March 23rd, 2009About a week ago we hosted the first annual Community Crush barrel tasting with the wines various San Francisco communities made in 2008. Everybody got to taste everybody else’s wine and also evaluated the differences between the exact same wine aging in different barrels. Most of the Community Crush wines have one neutral barrel and [...]
Tags: community crush
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Guess the Mystery Wine
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Last week at the Around the World in 80 Sips event we asked partygoers to dissect Mystery Wine and tell us the blend. The Mystery Wine is from our Fusebox at home wine blending kit and contains five varietals: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. This was no easy task. While out [...]
Tags: bottlenotes, contests, events, fusebox, party, wine tasting
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Viva La Rosé-lución!
Friday, January 30th, 2009Dreary wintry months may not immediately conjure the simple delights of a backyard toast with rosé. But, January in the Bay Area has been lamb-like with temps hovering in the 60s for most of the month. This Spring-like weather pattern has awakened yearnings for pink wines. Coincidentally, a delegation of winemakers from France, in town [...]
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Zin night at the Pad
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Last night at Crushpad we hosted a rollicking BYOZ event in advance of this weekend’s ZAP Festival at Fort Mason. Our generous guests brought 50 some bottles of Zin, we brown bagged them and then dove headfirst into the fray of Turley, Ridge, Bucklin, Ravenswood and other Zin superstars.
For some reason Zin tastings always seem [...]
Posted by noah in Crushpad Events | 2 Comments »
Menu for Hope
Monday, December 15th, 2008For the second year we’re participating in Menu for Hope, an amazing food blogosphere fundraiser, appropriately benefiting the UN World Food Programme. Menu for Hope is essentially a big online raffle, with some pretty tantalizing prizes, put on by food bloggers around the world and organized by host Chez Pim. The virtual raffle tickets are [...]
Tags: Crushpad Events, fusebox, menu for hope
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Pinot on the River Festival
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008The 4th annual Pinot on the River Festival was held along the western edge of the Russian River AVA in Forestville last weekend. Autumn is in the vineyard, evidenced by senescence; the aging of vine canopies where leaves change from photosynthesizing green to getting-ready-for-winter’s-slumber orange, yellow and red. The colorful backdrop was perfect for some [...]
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Showing Some Love for the 312
Monday, October 27th, 2008We’re really happy to be back in Chicago again this year, pouring at Pinot Days on Saturday, November 15th at Navy Pier. We’d love to see you there and share some amazing Sonoma Coast, Russian River and Anderson Valley pinot noirs with you.
We’re also hosting a get together the next day over at our friends [...]
Tags: pinot days
Posted by Patrick Hurley in Crushpad Events | 2 Comments »
Sip Some Pinot With Us at the Pinot on the River Festival
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008• Late October in sunny Northern California.
• A Sunday day trip to the Russian River Valley.
• Tasting from 100 small production artisinal Pinot Noir producers.
If that sounds like a day well spent — and who could honestly argue otherwise? — trek up to Forestville on Sunday, 10/24 and join Crushpad for the Pinot on the [...]
Tags: pinot noir, pinot on the river festival
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