Wine on Piedmont

12/23/2024

🎊Jingle Jingle & Happy Festivus 💪🏻

We’re CLOSED today (Monday 12/23) but we’ll be open holiday hours tomorrow, Xmas Eve, from 11am - 5:30pm.

12/18/2024

We’re taking reservations for our 🥂 Champagne 🥂 tasting this Friday night 12.20 5-7:30pm with Kermit Lynch Imports’ Garrett Pierce ( ). See link in bio.

Mark your calendars as we’re going to be opening some super special bottles against our better judgement including the Lassalle 2013 Special Club 🤤

We’ll be showing 4 Champagnes from 3 of our favorite growers, covering a range of styles and price points from $40-$120 a bottle.

1. J. Lassalle Champagne Cachet Or Brut
2. V***e Fourny Blanc de Blancs 1er Cru
3. Paul Bara Rosé Grand Cru
4. J. Lassalle Special Club 2013

This is a great event for Champagne lovers (a chance to reacquaint yourself with old favorites) and the uninitiated alike (learn whether you’re more of a Blanc de Blanc, Rosé or mature Champagne fan) and try before you buy that special bottle to give as a gift or ring in the New Year
$25 ($20 club) for a taste of 4 wines

All wines will be available to attendees at 10% off.

12/09/2024

This Thursday night, shop, sip and stroll on Piedmont Avenue after the days work is done.

5-8pm
Thursday, Dec 12th

Visit our neighbors, watch the lighting ceremony and stop in. We’re doing our part to make the holidays sparkle with

✨🍾✨10% off all bottles of sparkling wine
✨🥂✨$6 pours of Prosecco & $12 pours of J Lassalle Brut Champagne

We can’t wait to see you then — if not sooner!

Cheers!

12/06/2024

Buon Natale & Buone Feste!

From Vesuvio to the foothills of the Dolomiti, Italy offers countless food friendly wines fit for holiday feasts & fêtes — whether you’re doing a traditional roast or feast of the 7 🐟or anything in between.

We’re leaving the comfort zone of the familiar favorite Bs: Brunello, Barolo, Barbaresco… to shake things up a bit, sure, but also to showcase

- 2 two very special wines from Friuli’s , (Ribolla Gialla & Schioppettino) one of the producers whose wines got me into this business in the first place & whose wines I (Adriana here 👋🏻) make it a point to enjoy every holiday season.

- a Lacryma Christi Bianco

- a Rosso Toscana from Cerbaiona

$15 for a taste for a taste of 4 wines.

All featured wines will be available to attendees at 10% off.

Cheers!

12/05/2024

It’s a great day when Filipa Pato & William Wouters from stop by the shop to pour some of their incredible biodynamically farmed wines (🐖🐖) made from Barraida’s local superstar varieties: and .

Coming soon to Wine on Piedmont—new vintages of the 3B sparkling, Dinamico Blanco and the 22 Nossa Calcario Baga!

And I got an awesome shirt out of it. Thank you both so much for making me a proud member of the team.

11/29/2024

Pouring these 4 gems tonight 5-7:30pm Friday 11/29 at our double club release party and tasting.

As always, the tasting will be free for club members and their plus ones. $10 for non-members.

All featured wines will be available to attendees at 10% off.

We can’t wait to see you there!

🍷 Nov Adventurers Club:
Popelochum Blanc 2021 | San Benito, CA
Dalia Splet 22 | Negotin Valley, Serbia

🥂 RM (Sparkling) Club:
Lancelot Pienne Table Ronde Blanc de Blanc Extra Brut
Amestoi Unicus Metodo Traditional Sparkling

11/25/2024

🦃🍂Stay dry & check out our holiday hours this week🍂🦃

11/21/2024

It’s the 3rd Thursday in November aka Nouveau Day.

Around the world, young juicy red wines - the first wines of the 24 vintage - are hitting store shelves, and millions are enjoying nouveau in all its cinnamon, strawberry bubblegum glory!

We too will be celebrating —albeit in a different way (see below). Join us tomorrow night!

📅 FRIDAY NOV 22nd 5-7:30

🎟️ $15 (half price club) for 4 Gamays
Pay when you walk-in or reserve in advance online (via the link in our bio).

Will there be nouveau? Probably not (hence the “Not So”)

As usual, our favorite Nouveau (from ) will not be here for another few days (Tuesday likely); if by some miracle it arrives this week, expect a 5th surprise pour at our tasting. We promise—it’s worth the wait!!!

The delay gives us a chance to celebrate Gamay - Pinot Noir’s more fun sibling - more in all of its forms and flavors — not just its nouveau incarnation.

Will there be talk of carbonic laceration? You betcha!

Featured pours:

- Tiberi il Musticco Rosato Pet Nat
(Unexpxged frizzante of Gamay del Trasimeno)

- Foillard Beaujolais Village 23
(A perennial staff favorite)

- Enfield Sonoma Coast Gamay 23
(This year’s nominee for best domestic Gamay)

- Jean-Marc Burgaud Morgon Côte du Py 22
(See why Jean-Marc is being hailed as “Among the best winemakers not just in Morgon, but in all of Beaujolais” by Vinous’ Neal Martin and us)

11/15/2024

Winemaker Luke Nio of .wine.co pours at the back bar tonight!

It’s the perfect time to sample and stock up on great wines for all of the Friendsgivings, Thanksgivings, birthdays and holiday parties ahead.

Luke’s wines (dare-me-not-to-finish-the-whole-bottle-kinda-good wines made from unconventional varieties like St. Laurent and Cabernet Pfeffer (aka Mourtau)) have always stood out to me at wine tastings and fairs over the years so I’m so excited to finally have them in stock at our shop!

$10 for 4 wines (half price club).

As always, attendees get 10% off all featured wines.

We cannot wait to see you there!

11/08/2024

5-7pm at Wine on Piedmont. $15 for 4 wines (half price for club).

Don’t feel like celebrating right now? Same here, my friend. But perhaps you can take some solace in our tasting community and historical context. We’ll turn our attention from present horror to awe at amazing people of Georgia and the endurance of their way of life and their wines.

Considered the “cradle of wine,” wine has been produced in the region now part of the Republic of Georgia for at least 8 THOUSAND years, and many of these ancient traditions and techniques are still in use today.

Despite be being vanquished, suppressed, and occupied by empire after empire after empire (Persian, Roman, Ottoman, Mongol, Soviet), Georgia’s unique language and culture —and wine culture in particular — remains as strong and alive as ever.

When the Ottomans outlawed wine production, Georgians grew vines secretly in the forest. Under Soviet occupation, when the country’s wine production was converted into government owned industrial monopolies, ripping out old vineyards planted to indigenous varieties and churning out massive quantities of homogeneous plonk, many Georgians still made their artisanal wine at home in the traditional way in buried preserving indigenous varieties and techniques for future generations.

Today, the country boasts over 500 indigenous varieties (many found no where else on earth) and demand at home, and abroad, is stronger than ever.

In the photo above, Kartlis Deda (Mother of Georgia) stands tall overlooking the city of Tblisi. She was built in 1958 to celebrate the capital’s 1500th anniversary. In one hand she holds a sword to fend off attackers, and in the other hand she holds a bowl of wine to welcome guests.

Today, the supra or feast centered around food and wine under the direction of a toast master, still brings people together in times of celebration, sorrow or just cause. Stories and traditions are shared and bonds between neighbors and generations are strengthened.

Let’s never forget who we are, where we come from and what we value. And let’s always welcome our friends with a bowl (or glass) of good wine.

11/01/2024

Tomorrow night (11/1), we welcome Chambers & Chambers’ Stephen Laborde, who will be pouring some of our favorite wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Though this region, which lies between Portland and Salem, is
best known for Pinot Noir, grapes like Gamay and Chardonnay have shown tremendous promise in these hills.

$15 (half price for club) gets you a taste of 4 wines:
- Eola-Amity Hills AVA: Cristom Chardonnay 22
- Ribbon Ridge AVA: Brickhouse Gamay 23
- Chahalem Mountains AVA: J. Christopher Basalt Pinot Noir 19
- Willamette Valley AVA: Failla Pinot Noir 22

As always, featured wines will be available to attendees at 10% off.

Reserve in advance online (via the link in our bio) or show up before 7:15 and pay at the register.

We can’t wait to see you there!

10/18/2024

What? Tastings are back?!?! That’s right… TONIGHT 5-7pm we’re doing a quiet launch (before next week’s big Champagne Celebration) featuring 5 wines — the greatest hits from the last few months of wine clubs and 2 wines from October’s Explorers Club, which dropped yesterday with 4 great wines pictured above.

🎟️ $10 (complimentary for club members and a +1)

As always, all featured wines will be available for purchase at 10% off.

09/11/2024

It’s not every day I get to meet one of my wine idols…

Last week, (courtesy of ) stopped by our little shop to share her current line up of wines.

As South Africa’s first black woman winemaker, Ntsiki has been something of a salmon swimming upstream for most of her career, whether working twice as hard to pass her enology classes in a language she barely knew (Afrikaans) to recently navigating bureaucratic red tape to open her Stellenbosch tasting room.

Within minutes of meeting her, it was apparent that this is a woman who is not gonna take sh*t from anyone. And she is going to do it with a smile on her face and lots of laughter (that last part is where I struggle the most, so I soooooo admire this quality in others).

Her warmth and joy are contagious. When she found out I had recently taken over the shop and was in the process of putting in a small tasting area, she gave me a congratulatory hug, asked about my financing strategy (wait, you’re an international superstar and you’re interested in *my* little wine business?!?!?!), showered with encouragement and then we commiserated over permitting challenges.

Like Ntsiki herself, her wines are a jolt of serotonin. They combine sunny Stellenbosch’s pure and exuberant fresh fruit, with a sneaky seriousness (from vines grown on granitic mountainsides and ancient gravels) in their weight, structure and deftly managed tannins. Ok, this is a broad generalization, but just trust me that the wines are friggin’ good!

Want to try them for yourself? We have her fabulous 21 Cabernet in stock now (for which Ntsiki recommends an unorthodox pairing — spicy Japanese food); her 22 Sauv Blanc (from our Feb Explorers wine club) and skin contact Chenin Blanc cab are due to arrive soon…

09/06/2024

08/08/2024

We’ll be open late tonight (‘til 8–woohoo!) for the Piedmont Ave Night Market. Join us from 5-8pm for a honey tasting with urban beekeeper and local, Pam Weimer, and enjoy 10% off all wine in the shop.

Don’t forget to check out our neighbors on the avenue who are offering treats, sales, live music and more!

07/25/2024

Our last tasting of the summer is TOMORROW NIGHT Friday, 7/26 from 5-7…

In honor of the Olympics, which officially kicks off tomorrow, it will be a decathlon of a tasting featuring:

10 Wines (white, red, orange and sparkling)
10 Cheeses (and more snacks!)
5 Countries

Arnie Plowe will be repping France and Italy with four knock outs including some Barolo & Burgundy.

For the USA, we’ll be pouring our Adventurers Club releases from two unique, boutique producers & .wine.co

Also expect wines and cheeses from the Republic of Georgia and Spain.

Price:
$35 at the door
$25 club members, advanced purchase, trade and Piedmont avenue merchants

Register at the link in our bio or on the events page of our website before end of day today (Thursday 7/25) and save $10.

Celebrate BIG with us before we close from 7/29-8/5 for renovations (we will be offering online delivery & pick up between 3-6pm Tuesday 7/30 - Sunday 8/4)

Cheers!!!

07/18/2024

Join us Friday for 🌞 BASQUE IN THE SUN 🌞 a tasting of 4 beverages from Spain’s verdant northeast corner (and adjoining regions) from 5-7pm - and one of our LAST 2 TASTINGS of summer before we CLOSE the back bar for rennovations.

Enter your weekend refreshed after two pours of txakoli.

You can thank our teammate Matt (a real life dad) for the dad-joke-title. He and his wife honeymooned in Basque Country so the region always conjures up great memories.

Purchase tickets is advance via the profile link or at the register Friday evening anytime before 6:40pm.

As always, all featured wines will be available for attendees to purchase at 10% off.

What’s with the guys in the photo? Pulled from Jancisrobinson.com’s recent Wine of the week article, the photo shows Ignacio Ameztoi and winemaker Iñaki Kamio drink Txakoli out of porróns.

07/12/2024

Located half way between The Bay and LA, the Paso Robles AVA is known for its maverick producers and laid back style 🤠

Tonight we’ll be pouring some favorites from our collection.

$10 for a flight of 4 wines. $5 club.

Reserve your spot in advance online or pay at the register before 6:30pm.

Yeehaw! We can’t wait to see you there.