Our Sunday wine tastings only occur on the last Sunday of each month, at 3:30 pm. Unlike our Saturday tastings, there are six wines rather than four, the wines have a broader range of quality and price, and each wine is accompanied by an amuse-bouche that’s specially made to compliment the wine. Again, reservations are required, and web and email reservations will not guarantee you a seat, to please make your reservation by calling (520) 326-9363.
Hello, Feastlings. Our good friend Andy Ramirez joins us this Sunday for our Last Sunday of the Month tasting, and it’s virtually assured we’ll fill up, if not because so many of you already know and enjoy Andy, then because Pinot Noir is among the most heavily attended of our tastings. This Sunday, April 24, […]
Hello, Feastlings. Our end-of-the-month tasting this month will be led by our erstwhile dining room manager, Dylan Higgins. Dylan now works for Alliance beverage, and he’ll be here this Sunday, February 28, at 3:30 to pour six wines for you that hail from Southern France. There’s some tasty stuff to be had here, and relatively […]
Hello, Feastlings. Poor Sicily. While people clamor for Barolo and Barbaresco, Chianti Classico and SuperTuscans, Sicilian wines have yet to get their day in the limelight. But two months ago, I came into the restaurant on a Monday when we were closed, and met two guys who brought in a whole spectrum of Sicilian wines. […]
Dear Feastlings, Every now and again, we get so caught up in the virtues of French, Italian or Spanish wines, and we do it to our own detriment, because we ignore wines from our own (admittedly somewhat broad) neck of the woods. And yes, there’s a reason that California is the first place that leaps […]
Dear Feastlings, You may recall that periodically, we try to remind you that even if you’re unfamiliar with a particular wine, you may take the plunge and buy that bottle confidently if you turn the bottle around and recognize an importer who’s garnered your trust by importing wines of high quality and good value. This […]
Dear Feastlings, People often think of France as wine’s home, and of ancient Rome as wine’s birthplace, but they forget that it was Greeks who brought viticulture to Italy. This month, we’ll open up six wines from Greece and Turkey, and it’s an exciting opportunity: You’ll taste varietals you seldom see in the U.S., from […]
Dear Feastlings, There’s wine, and then there’s wine. Sure, there’s that tasty twelve-dollar bottle- the blend of Zinfandel and Syrah and Sangiovese that was basically the leftover odds and ends that a winemaker threw together to make palatable and keep from wasting any of the juice left after the more important single-varietal bottlings, and there’s […]
Dear Feastlings, Living only an hour from Mexico, we’re all familiar with the cross-cultural experience that happens when neighbors look over one another’s fence (no pun intended). This Sunday, Sami Owchinko joins us to extol the virtues of the wine regions influenced by their next-door neighbors. Each of the wines she’ll be bringing share a […]
Dear Feastlings, Twenty-six years ago, when I found myself in Florence (Italy, not Arizona), unable to get a work permit, I enrolled myself in a language school in hopes of not only learning Italian, but sticking around until I could qualify for a permit. While the permit never came, school was fantastic, and among my […]
Happy Birthday to our country, Feastlings. This month, Mike Galkin joins us from Action Wine with six American wines in tow, from either coast- Independent American wines for American Independence Day. You may well pour some of these for your cookout, assuming you have the gumption to brave the outdoors next weekend. This weekend, however, […]