On Saturday January 10th about 60 wine questers met at a warehouse winery operation on Treasure Island in SF Bay for our first Wine Questers Taste n Tell.  We tasted from these tiny boutique wineries: Vie, Blue Cellars, Treasure Island, Morningwood, and Sol Rouge.  Too much wine to review here but we loved them all.  The wines will be reviewed on Twitter as they are consumed.

The vintners presented their wines to the group sequentially and then set up on a nearby table so we could explore them more.  I was busy shooting video and doing event organizing things so I missed a lot of the presentations and wines.  Everyone seemed to be having fun and format was very good.

Katya Preston got up at 5 AM on Saturday and made over a hundred Russian peroshki.  These are little pies or turnovers stuffed with different meats, potato, and apple.  There were many comments that they went great with the reds.

Later we moved to A.P. Vin near the SF Design Center and then to the shoreside home of Canihan Wines with an incredible view of the Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge!

These wineries are not open to the public on a regular basis.

I wouldn’t consider Treasure Island or even San Francisco a wine tasting road trip destination but it seems to be getting there.  The vintners are in various stages of opening tasting rooms and we can expect to see some soon around Fisherman’s Wharf.  They are enthusiastic about developing San Francisco as a wine tasting destination and their wines are terrific!

Tags: San Francisco wineries, Taste n Tell

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