Our Best Selling Italian Wines, Taste Them Tonight

Italy’s glowing reputation with wine is due not only to the fact that it produces and exports more than any other country but that it offers the greatest variety of types, ranging through nearly every color, flavor and style imaginable.  Some of our most popular and best selling Italian wines are being showcased at this week’s tasting.  Come and taste your way through Italy, from the southernmost region to the North.  See you Tonight!

This week we welcome Folio Wine Partners

Founded by the Michael Mondavi family in 2004, Folio Fine Wine Partners has quickly become one of the most respected wine purveyors in the U.S. and throughout the world. Michael, his wife Isabel, son Rob, and daughter Dina all play valuable roles in the company. They represent a collection of exceptional wines from all over the world—not only the most innovative wines from California, but also from emerging regions such as Spain, Austria and New Zealand. They love sharing high-quality, authentic wines from small wineries, where families have passed down their winemaking traditions from generation to generation. We bring you new classics from renowned producers, too, such as the exceptional offerings from the Frescobaldi family of Italy.

$15 per person.  Tasting includes a coupon for 25% off any one bottle of wine poured that night.

Also, includes gourmet food pairings prepared by our chef.

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Upcoming Events:

August 11^th 2010:  Wines from AGP Brokers…Pinot!

A Going-Away Party: “Wine Drinking Wednesday”

July 28^th, 6-8PM

This week something a little different!

Wine Tasting Wednesday’s have been going on for 73 straight weeks, and it will continue for as long as we can.  This week something just a little bit different:  LJ, one of our wine guys, will be leaving us for a year or so to take on the challenge of making wine in Portugal and New Zealand.  Join us this week to celebrate his upcoming journey with a special “Wine Drinking Wednesday”.  LJ has picked a bunch of his favorite Piazza Market wines to share with you all.  Come in and celebrate.

$15 per person.  Tasting includes a coupon for 25% off any one bottle of wine poured that night.

Also, includes gourmet food pairings prepared by our chef.

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Upcoming Events:

August 4^th 2010:  Wines from Folio

This week we welcome our favorite importer Wine Appellations. They will be pouring bubbles, bubbles and Barolo.

July 21st, 2010  6-8pm

Wine Appellations is a small husband and wife import team that specialize in small production, natural wines.  Piazza Market has been proud to carry their wines since we opened.  This week, don’t miss the opportunity to taste a 1994 Franciacorta, a 2001 Franciacorta, some fresh off the boat 2009 Prosecco and a beautiful 2003 Barolo.

Also, includes gourmet food pairings prepared by our chef.

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This week we welcome Folkway Wine CO.

July 14th, 6-8PM

Folkway Wine Company is the beloved project of Lino and Anthony Bozzano. Discarding the prevailing wisdom of the day in favor of observation and experience, they seek to capture the character of each site in its unique expression of Bordeaux varietals with honesty and integrity.  Born to Italian immigrant walnut and cherry farmers in California’s Central Valley, Lino and Anthony are true sons of the land.

$15 per person.  Tasting includes a coupon for 25% off any one bottle of wine poured that night.

Also, includes gourmet food pairings prepared by our chef.

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This week we welcome Cecchi from Tuscany.

July 7th, 6-8PM

Cecchi is the historic brand-name of a major company, but more than anything else it’s the name of a family. From 1893 up to the present day the Cecchi family has been a participant in the evolution of the world of wine both as a product and as a philosophy, and it has lived, understood and assimilated all the changes that have taken place within it in over a century.  It all began with Luigi, when he started his activity as a ‘palatista’, or a wine taster. During the first half of the 1900s Luigi was joined by his son, Cesare, and began to take the first steps in the creation of a marketing and distribution activity beyond the national borders. Cecchi wines are the fruit of the land. Care for the vines is intense and constant, because it’s the grapes that arrive in the cellars that will guarantee an excellent starting point for the quality being pursued.

$15 per person.  Tasting includes a coupon for 25% off any one bottle of wine poured that night.

Also, includes gourmet food pairings prepared by our chef.

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Upcoming Events:

July 14^th 2010:  Folkway Winery

This week we are very excited to welcome Andrew Jones from Field Recordings.

Field Recordings is 29-year old winemaker Andrew Jones’ personal catalog of the people and places he values most. Spending his days as a vine nursery employee planning and planting vineyards for farmers all over California, Andrew is sometimes offered small lots of their best fruit on the side. Having stood in just about every vineyard on the Central Coast, he has a keen eye for diamonds in the rough: sites that are unknown or under-appreciated but hold enormous untapped potential. As friendships are made and opportunities are embraced, Andrew produces small quantities of soulful wine from these unusual, quiet vineyards

$15 per person.  Tasting includes a coupon for 25% off any one bottle of wine poured that night.

Also, includes gourmet food pairings prepared by our chef.

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Upcoming Events:

July 2010  –Folkway, Cecci and more.

A pioneer is lost until he’s found; a visionary is wrong until he’s right. This week: Byron from Santa Barbara County.

June 23rd 6-8 pm.

In 1984 when Ken Brown founded Byron, his plan seemed simple enough: produce spectacular Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Santa Barbara County. At the time, this was both good news and bad news. Chardonnay was the good news. Santa Barbara had established a solid reputation by the mid-‘80s for its tropical, buttery bottlings. But Pinot Noir? That was a completely different story. This challenging and complex varietal was a daunting hurdle for the winemakers of Santa Barbara.  Come in and experience one of the wineries that made Pinot famous in Santa Barbara.

$15 per person.  Tasting includes a coupon for 25% off any one bottle of wine poured that night.

Also, includes gourmet food pairings prepared by our chef.

Parking Garage Available One Block Away

Upcoming Events:

June & July 2010  –Field Recordings, Folkway, Cecci and more

This week the Chardonnay the started it all; An American Classic Grgich Hills Estate!

June 9^th, 6-8PM

Miljenko “Mike” Grgich first gained international recognition at the celebrated “Paris Tasting” of 1976. Then, in a now-historic blind tasting, a panel of eminent French judges swirled, sniffed, and sipped an array of the fabled white Burgundies of France and a small sampling of upstart Chardonnays from the Napa Valley. When their scores were tallied, the French judges were shocked: they had chosen Mike’s 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay as the finest white wine in the world. Mon Dieu! The results stunned the international wine establishment and immediately earned Mike a reputation as one of the greatest winemakers in the world.

$15 per person.  Tasting includes a coupon for 25% off any one bottle of wine poured that night.

Also, includes gourmet food pairings prepared by our chef.

Parking Garage Available One Block Away

Upcoming Events:

June & July 2010  –A Happy Hour with Foxen! Field Recordings, A night in Mendencino and more!

This week another round of Barolos: From Piedmont, Italy Beni di Batasiolo

Nestled in northern rural Italy lie the vineyards of Beni di Batasiolo, a rich homeland to 336 acres of vineyards tended by the Dogliani Brothers in the heart of Piedmont.  The vineyards are composed of nine estates encircling the original cellars of the Dogliani winery like an amphitheater.  The Dogliani family has long fostered a tradition of crafting wines commended for excellence and have honored their family’s old-world legacy by continuing the tradition into the millennium.  Stop in and meet them in person.

$15 per person.  Tasting includes a coupon for 25% off any one bottle of wine poured that night.

Also, includes gourmet food pairings prepared by our chef.

Parking Garage Available One Block Away

Upcoming Events:

June & July 2010  –A Happy Hour with Foxen! Checci from Tuscany, Grgich Hills and more!