Our Best Selling Italian Wines, Taste Them Tonight September 8, 2010

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 [...]

This week we welcome Folio Wine Partners July 31, 2010

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 [...]

A Going-Away Party: “Wine Drinking Wednesday” July 22, 2010

July 28th, 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 [...]

This week we welcome our favorite importer Wine Appellations. They will be pouring bubbles, bubbles and Barolo. July 17, 2010

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 [...]

This week we welcome Folkway Wine CO. July 10, 2010

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 [...]

This week we welcome Cecchi from Tuscany. July 2, 2010

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 [...]

This week we are very excited to welcome Andrew Jones from Field Recordings. June 25, 2010

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 [...]

A pioneer is lost until he’s found; a visionary is wrong until he’s right. This week: Byron from Santa Barbara County. June 22, 2010

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, [...]

This week the Chardonnay the started it all; An American Classic Grgich Hills Estate! June 5, 2010

June 9th, 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 [...]

This week: Our Annual Barolo, Barolo, Barolo night. Come in and taste the wonderful single Cru Barolos of Michele Chiarlo May 22, 2010

May 26th, 6-8PM Their Philosophy:  Commitment and passion for oenological excellence; love of the soil and respect for its fruits; the places associated with wine, from the grape bunch to refining: The chapters of their story produce wines whose characteristics faithfully represent that variety of provenance, as well as their terroir, but in which the [...]