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for the love of God, literally no one calls it San Fran. It’s SF, San Francisco, or the city.

Papapietro Perry Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 22 is our Beverage of the Week. Papapietro Perry specializes in Pinot Noir, offering several single-vineyard selections, but this 2022 multi-vineyard blend from the Sonoma Coast is gorgeous... icont.ac/517Sj

This was an Amazing, Elevated experience in #Sonoma... Hamel Winery... everyone should schedule a tasting there youtu.be/TN4_Bobjxkk

Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.

Banning mRNA vaccines because some people have side effects is like saying we should ban electricity and go back to candlelight because some people get electrocuted

For our latest Sonoma Tasting Report, Staff Writer & Taster Courtney Humiston visited John Hamel of Hamel Family Wines at his Nun's Canyon Vineyard on Moon Mountain, where he has been working to achieve balance, resiliency and site-expressive minerality through biodynamic and dry-farming practices. His efforts are clear in the Hamel Family Wines Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma County Moon Mountain District Nun's Canyon Vineyard 2021. It’s a highly structured, intriguing wine that is intense yet buoyant, with vivid minerality and flavors of bright red fruit, hibiscus and rose tea. Most of the Hamel Family Wines Bordeaux-style bottlings are remarkably mineral-driven, reflecting the rock from which they came. Read more here: jamessuckling.com/wine-tasti…

From Soil to Glass: John Hamel’s Vision for Pure, Precise Wines at Hamel Family Wines grape-experiences.com/2025/0…

The ultimate "What could go wrong?"

Interesting booze news...

This is both an epic troll as well as a genius ad to make sure Canadians don’t completely boycott the United States. Newsom: “Sure, you-know-who is trying to stir things up back in DC, but don't let that ruin your vacation plans.”

Understand that the most important concession these cowardly law firms are making is unstated: They will not represent any clients challenging government policy or abuse of power while Trump is president. And thus abdicating a basic function of lawyers in a democracy.

Constellation sells a portion of their wine portfolio to The Wine Group. businesswire.com/news/home/2…

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-says-rece…

The stock market is down but at least everything is more expensive and services are getting shittier. On the other hand we have more measles. To be fair, they are finally delivering the reductions in FAA and National Parks staff that people have been demanding.

Powerful speech about Trump’s betrayal of the democratic world. My question watching this — where is the American version? Why hasn’t US’s own opposition to Trump been able to speak out with such clarity and force? Tempus fugit.

BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

Creative protests to the National Park Service cuts. sfgate.com/national-parks/ar…

HELLO: @sfgate begins a major national parks coverage expansion today, hiring journalists to cover the American West's beloved outdoor spaces, starting w/ national parks clusters in the: 🌲 PNW 🌵 Southwest 🗻 Big Sky Country Story Quick 🧵👇 sfgate.com/bayarea/article/s…

Good tidings to all!