Category Archives : Red


Urban Legend Cellars Hits All The Right Notes

I was acquainted with Urban Legend Cellars primarily through their Twitter feed.  The relaxed and friendly voice behind their tweets encouraged me, and all their other followers, to stop in to their new tasting room located in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland. On a recent weekend afternoon, I did just that.  There isn’t […]

Urban Legend Cellars

Skinner Vineyards Makes an Impressive Debut

Skinner Vineyards is one of three wineries that I had included in my book prior to my having tasted their wines.   The Skinner family has been making wines in the Gold Country since the middle 1800’s.  Their new winery location had not yet opened at the time Pour Me Another went to press. On my […]

Skinner Vineyards, Fairplay