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  1. Oeno-File
    For the Ladies: Taste Wine While Getting Tied UpIt’s time for Femina Potens’ annual wine and rope tasting!
    By Jay Barmann
  2. Sloshed
    Sloshed: Is There Any Way to Make Wine Bars Better?A wine lover wonders why wine bars are so darn boring, and offers up his solutions for fixing them.
    By Matthew Latkiewicz
  3. Oeno-File
    America Wins: We Now Drink More Wine Than Anyone ElseWe aren’t the world’s biggest winos, but we’re getting up there in sheer volume!
    By Jay Barmann
  4. Lawsuits
    Francis Ford Coppola Sues Marin Restaurant Over Use of Common Italian Term,The ‘Godfather’ director is not a fan of Tavola restaurant.
    By Jay Barmann
  5. Oeno-File
    Former Sicilian Mafia Land Becomes a Vineyard; Sideways Becomes a PlayAlso, a new study says wine is good medicine for heart-attack survivors!
    By Jay Barmann
  6. Oeno-File
    ‘Wine Enthusiast’ Launches Mandarin Edition; ‘Pimpnho’Plus an interview with pioneering female winemaker Merry Edwards.
    By Jay Barmann
  7. Deals
    Americano Offers Wine Deal For Tax Season
    By Jay Barmann
  8. Oeno-File
    Chocolate Wine Is Now a Thing; Jet-Setting Wine Collector Arrested for FraudAlso, the Chinese are buying lots of property in California’s wine country.
    By Jay Barmann
  9. Other Magazines
    Oenotri, Comstock Saloon, and Michael Mina All Featured in Food & WineAlso, Chris Cosentino has a recipe in there too.
    By Jay Barmann
  10. Oeno-File
    Jet-Setting California-Based Wine Dealer Charged With Selling Fake WineHe tried to pass off a 1929 bottle from a French winery that didn’t begin bottling until 1934.
    By Jay Barmann
  11. Mediavore
    Miso Not Just For Soup Anymore; Are Pollutants Making Us Fat?It’s not just what we eat, but what’s in what we eat that could be endangering our waistlines.
  12. Neighborhood Watch
    Lucky Strike Lanes Debuts; Winemakers Fight on Treasure Island; and MoreAlso, Heirloom Cafe is hosting a special winemaker dinner March 20.
    By Jay Barmann
  13. Oeno-File
    Drunk Twentysomethings Descend on Sonoma Barrel Tastings; Lady Gaga Wants toAlso, ‘Food & Wine’ names the country’s top sommeliers.
    By Jay Barmann
  14. Quote of the Day
    On Becoming a Wine Merchant
    By Jay Barmann
  15. Oeno-File
    Lady Gaga Possibly Shopping for a Vineyard in SonomaShe sees a winery as a possible retirement investment, allegedly.
    By Jay Barmann
  16. Oeno-File
    Do Some Barrel Tasting in Sonoma This WeekendThe 34th Annual Barrel Tasting weekend is actually two weekends now.
    By Jay Barmann
  17. Oeno-File
    Gaga May Play House in Wine Country; A New Wine From a Deadliest CatchAlso, one of the dudes from ‘Deadliest Catch’ is opening a winery in Pennsylvania.
    By Jay Barmann
  18. Mediavore
    Sky-High Gas Prices Challenge Food Trucks; Zagat Picks ‘30 Under 30’Chefs like Jordan Kahn and Giselle Wellman make the list of industry heavyweights still in their twenties.
  19. Oeno-File
    Drew Barrymore Enters the Wine Biz; Château Margaux Might Go Screw CapPlus: A knock on Skinnygirl Wines, and more in our weekly roundup of wine news.
    By Jay Barmann
  20. Drinking Games
    How to Play The Oscars Drinking Game at Bodega Wine BarPrepare to get loaded, as you’ll drain your glass every time an actor “claims that they haven’t even prepared a speech.”
    By Hadley Tomicki
  21. Oeno-File
    Two-Buck Chuck Turns Ten; The ‘Sideways Effect’ AbatesAlso, Americans aren’t nearly as drunk as most of the world.
    By Jay Barmann
  22. Interviews
    Mike D on His Wine-Blogging Hiatus, and Making Wine Writing More Fun“There are people who try to make it fun, and then they review, like, really cheap bad wine, but I review actually really ridiculously fancy wine.”
    By Jenni Avins
  23. Previews
    District Opening This Spring in Old OaklandThey’re aiming for late March or early April.
    By Jay Barmann
  24. Oeno-File
    Chilean Wine Name Offends Chinese; California Wine Arsonist Gets SentencedAlso, that New York sommelier turned thief admitted he’s guilty.
    By Jay Barmann
  25. Oeno-File
    Infamous Wine Warehouse Arsonist Gets Stiff SentenceThe legal round-robin finally seems over.
    By Jay Barmann
  26. Oeno-File
    Box Wine Over Beer for the Super Bowl?; Hitler Wines Approved for Sale inAlso, California Chardonnay turns 100.
    By Jay Barmann
  27. Neighborhood Watch
    Kitchen 24 Opens Second Location This Monday; Library Alehouse Joins Pliny theThe second location of the Hollywood restaurant is twice as big, with new dishes and a patio.
    By Hadley Tomicki
  28. Foodievents
    Two Ways a Get a Little Bit Wine-NerdierA Voce and Aureole have launched special vino programs.
    By Jenny Miller
  29. Mediavore
    YouTube Launching Food Channel; A Look into Suzanne Tracht’s KitchenFormer Food Network boss Bruce Seidel is heading up the project.
  30. Oeno-File
    A Potentially Scandalous Mondavi Memoir; The Grateful Dead Inspire a WinemakerAlso, California wine sales have been on the rise and San Francisco’s nabs one of New York’s best sommeliers.
    By Jay Barmann
  31. Oeno-File
    La Fenêtre Tasting at Silver Lake WineTaste Joshua Klapper’s wines for only $20, with food!
    By Hadley Tomicki
  32. Oeno-File
    Pinot Noir Flooding The S.M. AirportOver 80 international producers will showcase Pinot Noir at Barkar Hangar.
    By Hadley Tomicki
  33. Mediavore
    Taco Bell Upgrading Ingredients; The Joy of Food FightsThe chain promises to use “fresh” foods, making us quite concerned about what they were serving before.
  34. Oeno-File
    Quince Steals a Sommelier From Eleven Madison
    By Jay Barmann
  35. Oeno-File
    Calvin Trillin Thinks Wine Experts Are A**holes; A French Pinot Noir FraudAlso, a Chicago sommelier (allegedly) went really crazy on a Yelper who dissed one of his classes.
    By Jay Barmann
  36. Mediavore
    Restaurants Had Central Role in Civil Rights Movement; The Rise of MoscatoA 1960 sit-in at a North Carolina diner may have started an avalanche of civil rights protest.
  37. Oeno-File
    We May Soon Have a ‘Sobriety Pill’; EU Grudgingly Accepts WhiteAlso: one red-wine-loving researcher has been found out as a fraud, and more, all in our weekly wine-news roundup.
    By Jay Barmann
  38. Oeno-File
    Do Some Drinking Down Unda’, Tonight at SpectraMake sure to pour out a little for Steve Irwin.
    By Hadley Tomicki
  39. Oeno-File
    Chronicle Wine Competition Awards Top Honors to Livermore Cab, Finger
    By Jay Barmann
  40. Oeno-File
    Moscato Gains Hip-Hop Cred; 2011’s Biggest Wine StoriesPlus: Croatia is trying to get into the international wine game and more, all in our weekly wine-news roundup.
    By Jay Barmann
  41. TV Land
    The Bachelor to Swirl All Around the Bay and Wine Country This SeasonSonoma winemaker Ben Flajnik is the star this season, didn’t you know.
    By Jay Barmann
  42. Oeno-File
    Vodka No Less Beneficial to Your Health Than Wine; Champagne Sales Are Way UpPlus: Bordeaux has done itself “irreparable damage” with its pricing this year.
    By Jay Barmann
  43. Oeno-File
    Wine Heirs Battle in Court; Russians Don’t Drink Much WineAlso, Eric Asimov talks Champagne, but insists it’s not just because it’s that time of year.
    By Jay Barmann
  44. Neighborhood Watch
    Hamburger Hamlet Shutters in WeHo; Ryan Carson Pops Up at TiatoAfter more than 60 years, the restaurant claims it can’t stomach a rent increase.
    By Hadley Tomicki
  45. Oeno-File
    West Coast Welcomes New Appellations; Mondavi Searches for Its Oldest Bottle ofMeet the Coombsville, Fort Ross-Seaview, and Naches Heights appellations.
    By Katie Sweeney
  46. Mediavore
    Angry Calls Flood Albert Pujols’ Restaurant; Santa Monica Woman Finds RustyAngry St. Louis residents vow to stop patronizing Pujols 5.
  47. Oeno-File
    Orange Wines Trending Among Somms; Critic Says He Was Paid for Speeches, NotAlso, the dreaded European grapevine moth has almost been eradicated from California.
    By Jay Barmann
  48. Mediavore
    Sam Nazarian Keeps Tabs on The Bazaar; Wine Finds An EdgeThe hospitality entrepreneur claims the restaurant makes $13.5 million every year.
  49. Oeno-File
    Jay Miller Steps Down From Wine Advocate, Insists It’s Not AboutHe claims the departure was already planned before recent allegations came to light.
    By Jay Barmann
  50. Openings
    Swill Turns to Le Pour Haus, Now Serving Tapas and Wine in DowntownGone are the enomatic wine dispensers for a clean look of grey walls and bottle displays.
    By Hadley Tomicki
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