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It's a total treat to be able to feature another fabulous food and wine lady @ this Friday's Cleanse Party: DETOX/RETOX - Ms. Katrina Fetzer of Ceago Vinegarden. Katrina will share her family's...
**Updated 4/17: Read the press on Cleanse Party and the collaboration with these lovely ladies here! One of the best things about HIP TASTES has always been the opportunities it affords to get out...
I love television. It's escapism at its best, and with all of the options out there for seeing our favorite shows any time we want - Netflix, Hulu, Prime - it's become de rigeur to actually TRY to...
I am so pleased to announce the new Wellness Series! This Mucha-inspired illustration - courtesy of Mitch Shernoff - is the ideal visual for the Cleanse Party, which kicks off the series. There are...
I have a new crush, and no it's not Georgian wine or grower Champs or micro blogging about Georgian wine or grower Champs (although all of that does sound splendid). My crush is quite simply music...
It seems so obvious, yet many have overlooked it: During the recession, and since, one of the best-growing industries has been...drinks. Makes sense, right? People may have spent less on many...
At Unified? Let's sync up via Twitter: @HipTastesMaven #UGWS @TheUnified More than 12,000 guests! 650 product mavens! Awesome talks! Massive industry merriment! This Thursday (9am-11:30am) I'll be...
Swirl = Castro wine shop + wine bar fabulosity Featuring: Moroccan-Spiced Filet and Frites* Announcing: A recipe curated especially for pairing with HIP TASTES Red from my most local of local wine...
Announcing: the creator of the new HIP TASTES "60-30-8-2" wine label, Mr. Mitchell Shernoff: I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Mitchell (via his firm, Mitchel Design) since the very...
Okay everyone, I've gotten an electric pink manicure and I'm gettin' excited. This Sunday's Family Winemakers of California event - where I'll be hosting the fantabulous iSip lounge, with all the...
Last Thursday I joined an intrepid group of tasters - mostly wine buyers and a sprinkling of Master Somms - aboard the Cabernet Sauvignon for a day of tasting and gawking during prelims for the...
Theres a pin for that. Or perhaps I should say: that could be a pin. Its what I keep thinking as I cruise around online, taking in the ever-more-gorgeous images that are finding their way to the...
"The call." You know what Im talking about. The call that makes or breaks a deal, a heart or something else very important. Sometimes "the call" is unexpected. I received one of these earlier this...
While I have occasionally been known to rapture about a particular bottle of wine (any number of soulful West Coast Pinots come to mind), I am more often mystified by the reverence with which uber...
Dream collaboration announcement: I was recently asked to create a tasting around Alberta Ferrettis new capsule collection for Macys Impulse. HeLO amazing fashion opportunity! It gets better:...
Hip Tastes brings you speed dating, with wine. Why meet strangers with nothing in your glass when you could sip on something tasty while stumbling through awkward first-encounter banter? Taste five...
Enter to be considered for a spot on the bottling line for Hip Tastes new red blend - our first-ever commercially available wine - debuting this spring! A small group of Hip Tasters will pitch in...
[photo: ABC]When my editor at food blog Eater SF - where I dish on beverage-related gossip in a recurring column called The Swill - asked me to document this season of ABCs The Bachelor, I quickly...
One of the most delightful new people I met - virtually, via Facebook in this case - in 2011 is Nikki Nelson of Liquid Farm. Nikki runs Liquid Farm - a 100% Chardonnay project - with her husband in...
Its T minus one hour to La Cocinas annual holiday gift bazaar in the Mish. This is just a quick note to say that if youre looking for something to do tonight and you love supporting local food...
Last week I paid a visit to the affable Steve and Marilee Shaffer at Urban Legend Cellars, their Oakland-based vinous outpost that strikes quite the appropriately urbane mold. Im working with Steve...
Hip Tasters gathered Saturday at Sutton Cellars for our first ever urban winery event with Twitter-powered scavenger hunt. Featuring the debut Hip Tastes wine (Hip Tastes Red!) and custom blended...
Now that there are numerous urban wineries in Dogpatch, a natural wine bar, several excellent restos, myriad catering companies, ice cream and chocolate purveyors (Recchiuti just opened YESTerday)...
This Saturday at Mix It Up! we can look forward to being snapped in all our finery by none other than John Curley, SF photog extraordinaire and all around bon vivant. I first met John when he...
I met up with soon-to-be-wedded pal and expert-o-crafting-arts, Ariel Sutro, to put together decor and accessories for my upcoming Mix It Up! event (11/19). Not only is Ariels SF abode super...
Originally penned this for a freelance client who didnt love this wine, hence its landing here (you may recall an earlier entry in which I teased the piece - but it didnt wind up being published...
My coverage of last nights fabulous Top 100 tasting just dropped at EaterSF. Heres a teaser on the intro: "The vignoscenti turned out in their best duds last night for the annual Wine & Spirits Top...
I had the good fortune to enjoy a gorgeous mid-July lunch in the Russian River with DeLoach owner and bon-vivant-extraordinaire Jean-Charles Boisset, his affable and talented chef, Michel Cornu,...
SF Chefs brought a tasty treat to hungover souls brave enough to be up at 10:30AM Sunday after the previous eves Grand Tasting: an aphrodisiac-fueled food demo and tasting featuring four...
I headed over to Dogpatch 7.24.11 to check out Carl Suttons Jug Sunday. It was my first time at the recurring event and it did not disappoint, especially as I was lucky enough to be there on the...
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