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Wine

“L’Chaim Napa Valley” at Congregation Beth Shalom in Napa in 2018 (Photo/Janna Waldinger, Art & Clarity Photography)
Posted inUncategorized

Let the wine flow at Napa’s ‘Synagogue of the Vintners’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 10, 2019October 15, 2019
Orly Jaffe with the fruits of her labor (Photo/Courtesy Jaffe)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Q&A: She nourishes people’s minds with a new food and wine speaker’s bureau

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 22, 2019August 26, 2019
Rebecca Fineman at Ungrafter, her wine-focused restaurant in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco (Photo/Alix Wall)
Posted inJewish Life

This S.F. sommelier knows so much about wine you call her ‘master’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 12, 2019November 2, 2020
Hagafen owner Ernie Weir, with wife Irit, is interviewed after an award ceremony. (Photo/Courtesy Hagafen Winery)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Hagafen: leading the way out of the kosher wine desert for 40 years

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 1, 2019September 24, 2019
a two-story stone building with sloping roof and red barn door amid trees and overgrowth
Posted inJewish Life

End of line for historic Sonoma winery building with Jewish past?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 19, 2019November 5, 2019
(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
Posted inWine

For eight nights, try eight kosher wines (four local)

wine columnist stands on Jerusalem rooftop holding a glass of white wine by Joshua E. London November 21, 2018November 26, 2018
Wine bottle with SOLIDARITY written in big letters
Posted inWine, Food, Small Bites, Jewish Life

Latest Solidarity wine is an empty bottle with proceeds going to homelessness

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 16, 2018September 24, 2019
the couple sits outside at a food-laden table with a wine bottle in front of them
Posted inJewish Life

New kosher winery Camuna Cellars springs forth in Berkeley

wine columnist stands on Jerusalem rooftop holding a glass of white wine by Joshua E. London November 15, 2018
Chef David Nayfield flips his wood-fired chicken. (Photo/Janna Waldinger, Art & Clarity Photography)
Posted inJewish Life

Wine lovers in Napa raise a glass — and raise it again — for charity

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 1, 2018September 24, 2019
Posted inFood

Albany Persian market trades in the spice of life

by Dan Pine October 31, 2008December 10, 2018

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