Wine & Spirits

Extremely grateful to Wine & Spirits magazine for hosting its 20th annual benefit event for

San Francisco Baykeeper. 

We were lucky enough to attend. The top 100 wineries of the year (chosen by more than 300 panels testing nearly 10,000 wines) presented their best offerings, along with oysters and other sample bites from Bay Area restaurants - all to benefit Baykeeper. To quote the hosts:

"For the past 20 years, we have produced the Top 100 as a benefit for SF Baykeeper, supporting the work they do to protect the health and safety of the San Francisco Bay and its watershed - that includes the Napa River and other tributaries that run through wine country. I hope you'll take a moment to meet their team tonight, to learn about ways you can help sustain an increasingly valued local resource."

Thank you to Baykeeper for protecting the water, and thank you to all the talented people turning water into wine.

P.S. Our favorite wine was a volcanic white from the Azores, where there is practically no soil and they just find holes in the rock where plants previously grew, and root a vine there, and if they have a bad year don't sell any wine. We both took one sip and said OMG, and then checked the price and it was $288 a bottle.