Wine
Drinking Earth: The Magic of Pu-erh, Part 2
Yesterday, I waxed on about the earthy delights of pu-erh tea. You can read about it here. In this post, I take the easy route, making analogies between wine and pu-erh, and also offer tasting notes.
As we tasted, at…
Drinking Earth: The Magic of Pu-erh, Part 1
Yesterday was pretty awesome. I popped in to Nopa to upload video from the Flipcam to our hard drive. I was making space for our tasting with Tom Bulleit on Thursday. I was surprised to see Xandre there too since it was his day off.…
Part 2: 2009 The Year of Beaujolais That Took Me a Year to Understand
Welcome to Part 2 of the 2009 Beaujolais retrospective. Below is a profile of three of the wines from this vintage that have granted me a new respect for the year, and offered yet another reminder on the importance of…
2009: The Year of Beaujolais That Took Me a Year to Understand
2009 Beaujolais. People couldn’t get enough of it. Jancis Robinson, whose wine opinion I value more than any other on the planet, called 2009 “The Year of Beaujolais”. Countless other writers and critics were early adopters compounding the fervor of…
Wine, Religion and Origins
55-65 Million years. That’s an estimate on the age of vitis vinifera, the grape vine that produces wine. My friend Greg Mu once told me that all plants aspire to be grape vines. It is not an intuitive thought, but…
Salinia
One of the great things about the wine world, or the world surrounding any artistic endeavor, is the countless talented individuals toiling away at a personal vision out of sight of the general public. Because the production levels are usually…
Rocche Dei Manzoni
We have just rolled out a new set of featured wines on the wine list here at Nopa. We are offering four wines of Rocche dei Manzoni by the glass. Rocche dei Manzoni is located in Monforte d'Alba within the…
Questioning Cabernet
Stephen Tanzer has a new website called Winophilia. It is a more broadly focused sister to his International Wine Cellar publication and website. On the Winophilia site he has a section called Sommelier Roundtable in which he poses a…
Natural Wine Week 2010
Natural wine week has arrived here in San Francisco, and it is definitely a brand new event as compared to last year. Last year the focus was on the intellectual - trying to define natural wine, deciding what qualified and…
Levantando Chile!
For nearly two months now we have featured Chilean wines at both Nopa and Nopalito. Our goal was to remind our guests that many communities in Chile are still in need of help and also to raise money for…
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