Wine Merchant's Blog
The Chronicle recently asked Cheese School owners Kiri Fisher and Daphne Zepos to share a few of their favorite cheesemongers in the Bay Area. Lo and behold, our very own Oxbow Cheese Merchant in Napa gets their nod of approval thanks to our selection of cheeses being "unabashedly of the cheesemonger’s choosing, starring cheeses with names you’ll never remember but wish you did." We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
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Posted by Nicholas Green on 01/27 at 09:27 AM in
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Recently Peter Granoff sat down with the folks at Slow Living Radio, you can listen to their conversation here. He was invited by co-host Sally James, an Australian expat with quite the food, wine, publishing and entertainment bio, and in addition is a regular customer of ours at our Oxbow Public Market location. Among other things, she is currently co-host of a nationally syndicated weekly program on Slow Living Radio, which is broadcast live from Yountville – right here in the heart of Napa Valley. Recently Peter and Sally had a conversation in our Napa shop about long held myths in the world of wine, and in no time at all that resulted in an invitation to come on the show and tackle the subject on air.
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Posted by Nicholas Green on 01/26 at 09:57 AM in
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We are delighted to announce our new winter/spring wine class schedule which you can view here. Those of you who have attended our classes before know that they are both informative and entertaining. Each new schedule includes the core classes we offer almost every time around - "Wine Tasting Technique Deconstructed," and "Fundamentals of Food & Wine Pairing." Interest in these two is always strong and they usually sell out, so book early. Sign up for all 5 classes in a season and save 20%.
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Posted by pgranoff on 12/30 at 12:56 PM in
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Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither, apparently, are new web sites! After a lot of hard work, however, we are pleased to launch the latest version of Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant's web site with much expanded content, improved wine search features, many more tools on our end to keep things fresh and interesting, and a whole new look and feel. Please explore and let us know what you think!
Posted by pgranoff on 12/09 at 12:42 PM in
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