Ciao to Summer – Dinner Under The Stars! (past event)

Cheers! fellow wine lovers aka 902-wine-0’s Join us for a festive and casual Italian ‘family-style’ dinner under the LA stars on the roof terrace of Eataly’s Terra Italian Grill.  Thrillist says- Situated on the rooftop of Eataly, Terra is the mammoth Italian emporium’s best place for a nice sit-down meal. Meaning “earth” in Italian, Terra’s menu is built around a wood-fired grill with dishes like whole branzino, bone-in ribeye, and Pugliese-style skewers cooked over an open flame. The restaurant recently added Grigliata Di Pesce to the mix as well—a plate of marinated swordfish, calamari, prawns, and… Read More

100 Point Winemaker, Joey Tensley of Santa Barbara’s Tensley Wines, Opens First Tasting Room in Los Angeles, Tensley Tasting Room

The Brentwood location is the first tasting room in Los Angeles run by a winery that has earned 100 points and multiple spots on WineSpectator’s Top Tensley Wines announces the opening of its first ever Tensley Tasting Room in Los Angeles. Owned by renowned winemaker, Joey Tensley, the Santa Barbara County based wine label knowns for its award-winning Syrah, brings Santa Barbara’s wine country to Brentwood and offers Angelenos a taste of Tensley Wines which include Tensley Wines, Fundamental Wines, and P2KV Wines. Established in 1998, Tensley Wines belongs to a small group… Read More

Wine and Food Pairing – Italian

Our friends at Bon Appetite provide another excellent educational take on pairing food and wine with a casual approach we hope you’ll enjoy. Our members love to learn about wine…We love wine!

Noble Rot, Explained: How the World’s Great Sweet Wines Are Created by a Finicky Grey Fungus

  Legendary sweet wines Sauternes and Tokaj both get their flavor from the grey fungus Botrytis cinerea, which concentrates a grape’s flavors and sugars Despite their bad reputation, mold, yeast, and fungus are responsible for some of the tastiest things in our lives, such as blue cheese, bread, pizza crust, soy sauce, miso, and of course mushrooms and truffles. As wine lovers, we can’t forget Botrytis cinerea, the grey mold known as Noble Rot that under the right circumstances can affect grape bunches to create ethereally sweet wines such as Sauternes, Tokaji… Read More

Los Angeles Boasts A ‘Secret’ Winery Estate

  Tucked in a residential neighborhood, in the shadow of The Getty, lies 14 acres of vineyards and a winery.   One of the biggest winemaking secrets in California can be found in Los Angeles. Tucked in a residential neighborhood, in the shadow of The Getty, lies 14 acres of vineyards and a winery. The Moraga Bel Air vineyards and winery, as its name suggests, is in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, and the vines grow in the Moraga Canyon of the Santa Monica Mountains. “It’s just a regular neighborhood,”… Read More