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We grow wine in North Yuba.

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AUTUMN IS ARRIVING! And the reds ❤️ and oranges 🧡 and golds 💛 and browns 🤎 that come with it are here in full force, so soft and sweet and cozy. There’s literally nothing better than dining in our garden before it gets too chilly and dark to do so, so please join us to celebrate fall. 🍂 #autumnequinox #allthefeels #boxersofinstagram
(Side note, the boxer puppy is not IN the restaurant… she just felt too cute to leave out. SANKA!!!)

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This Saturday, we’re throwing a party featuring all domestic wine!! Lis & Lucien are writing the wine list. No reservations. Snacks and dumplings all day or till we sell out (yes that means pelmeni for dinner). $10 off all bottles of wine for here. Decks of cards on the tables. Records spinning reallll loud.

We are NOT running our normal set menu dinner service, and will be closed for patio service and dinner service on Sunday for a very special private event. It looks like rain so we’re planning to hang out inside the shop all day. If you need a respite from the football madness and want to come down and hang out, we would love to have you!

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Last Sunday thousands of people attended the 3rd annual @detroitsandwichparty. Over 50 of your favorite restaurants and food trucks joined forces to celebrate the sandwich, our amazing community, and help raise money for @northcorktown. You really showed up! This day couldn’t have happened without our fearless leaders: @beksgal @carlos_parisi and @detroitwilliam; who worked tirelessly to pull off the biggest party to date! We want to give a shout out to our incredible volunteers. They are coolest people you’ll ever meet and truly the best. Special thanks to @convivialcollab and @_softprop for holding down the wine lounge created by the talented Jackie and Queen of @retrorescuers. What an incredible day! We’re gonna be living off all of these good vibes until next year. Cheers to the all mighty sandwich!

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Your snaps, our snaps---- of our first weekend open with a restaurant AND cafe on 2nd in Belmont Shore!

Thank you to everyone who has come out and supported us these first few days!

This has possibly been our biggest lift yet and everyone has been so sweet and supportive. The team has been working so hard and it's been such a gift hosting y'all in the new space! 💗🚀

Our restaurant expansion is open daily for brunch 8AM-3PM and dinner 4 PM-9 PM.

Daily intermission from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 with snacks and drinks!

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We’re starting the weekend early this week with The Piedmont Guy and Sacred Thirst Selections, featuring a killer Piedmont lineup. Then, on Friday, we’ve got our final UNFILTERED events before the big festival! ✨

To close out Saturday and Sunday, we’re hosting the official UNFILTERED after-parties at Vine Street.

Check out this week’s lineup across all three stores, and grab your tickets using the link in bio.

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Time is getting short on this long list of incredible people bringing their craft to Berkeley. UNFILTERED is making thinking sexy again: meet the personalities and hear the stories and ideas that are driving the most dynamic wine movement in America.

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Get Tickets: https://www.donkeyandgoat.com/unfiltered/

The winemaker lineup is incredible. The panels, participants, and moderators are world-class. The chefs are ready to serve, and the DJs are locked into their sets.

This is a unique chance to taste the OGs who wrote the rules of our local craft wine scene alongside the people rewriting the rules of California wine. They all have different philosophies—and we’ll taste and talk about that—but they share one non-negotiable rule: they all work to honor the vineyard and express the soil.

UNFILTERED celebrates great artisan wine, chef-forward food and thought provoking discussions.

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July’s events at Solano Cellars are essentially summer travel in a glass. French wines for Bastille Day, Spanish and Portuguese wines, Hungary’s finest with the wines of Tokaj, and our first Greek wine class. We’ll finish off the month with the final Unfiltered Wine event featuring Frenchtown Farms, plus a blind tasting focused on
Italian wines.
Save and share this post to spread the word. We hope to see you in for our events and World Cup watch parties!

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One week later, and my heart remains full of joy and gratitude for the SLO Coast & Friends wine fair. @scar_of_the_sea and I could not have dreamt of a better group of growers to celebrate SLO Coast.

There’s something about a field full of people who all understand the same thing without needing to say it — that farming comes first, that the wine is just what’s left over after you’ve done right by the land. Different places, different hands, same hold on the dirt. That’s what last Sunday was. This event means so much to me. It’s not the pouring, not the crowd — it’s the reminder that this coast is full of people farming the hard, honest way. Events like this aren’t really about the wine in the glass. They’re about the community around it — the growers, the friends, the people who drove out to Cambria just to stand in a field with us.

To all the local vendors who make SLO Coast what it is, and to our friends who showed up to help — thank you. This doesn’t happen without you.

And to @ohheypanda who is effortlessly talented at holding community together and keeping us all organized. I’m so proud to have you by my side. I love you.

Thank you to everyone who came. This coast, this community — this is why we farm here Can’t wait to do it again on June 27th, 2027. See you next year!

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We asked Aidan, our Head Wine Buyer, to select a few of his favorite American-made wine producers and he selected three different wine producers from California and the Pacific Northwest. Liska from the Willamette Valley, Samuel Louis Smith from the Santa Cruz Mountains, and Frenchtown Farm from the Sierra Foothills. Stop by and check out our American-made wine shelf!

Discover new wines at our free weekly wine tasting, every Friday from 3pm - 6pm, at the Huron Ave location.

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Back on my stoop, soaking up the neighborhood with liquid sunshine in my glass @deadhorsehill
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Since 2015, Cara + Aaron Mockrish, the duo behind Californias Frenchtown Farm, have been farming vineyards + making wine in the North Yuba AVA, which includes the tiny Gold Rush village of Frenchtown. Vignerons to the fullest, their practice relies on a connection to nature- working with their hands and letting the intense sun + terror of the Sierra foothills guide them. Tending to a variety of vines- old, own rooted, dry farmed and a newly established vineyard on the rocky steep slopes where they call home. The wines of Frenchtown Farm are a portrait of this place.

Pouring by the glass at deadhorse hill this weekend before we depart for a lil summer holiday, this wine is perfectly paired with this moment in time + the menu. Perhaps you could say its purpose- to connect us, to bring pause + remind us all that everything comes from somewhere- and it is each of our own responsibilities to identify our values, even when a glass of wine may seem trivial, it came from a person + a place that is connected to every sip you take.

Please allow me to share with you Cara + Aaron’s 2024 “Limited Hangout” a blend dominated by Chenin Blanc + Picpoul, with a touch of Petite Manseng. The Saureel Vineyard a.k.a. The Gold Hill District of El Dorado County soaks up the penetrating sun here- patiently the fruit receives several hand harvested passes through the vineyard selecting perfectly ripened clusters. Crushed, fermented + laid to rest in neutral French oak for 10 months before bottling. A year in bottle, two years later what we have is liquid sunshine. A shimmering gold in the glass, gushing generous aromas of gooseberries, kumquats + stone fruit- over grown honeysuckle is shelter for the birds + nectar for the bees. A whisper of smoke makes for quite the picture. The dense ripe fruit follows to the palate- medium bodied, an oily texture- there is depth + complexity beyond the fruit- fresh herbs, coriander, white pepper + a tickle of ginger spice. Sensational. Unexpected. I think I just got kissed by summer… ☀️

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