We Have a Menu – Dinner with Randall Grahm and 14 of his Wines

We thought it extraordinary that a small, independent – very independent – winemaker would make so many wines, and that they could all be very good. And there may be no one we’d rather send time with than Bonny Doon’s Randall Grahm. ….

Dinner with Randall Grahm and 14 of His Wines

When Oliveto sommelier Esteban Brunello went to a Bonny Doon Vineyard wine tasting a couple months back, he tasted all of Randall Grahm’s currently available wines and returned astounded. So, after Esteban’s pronouncement, we decided that, while presenting a wine dinner with 14 different wines would be challenging, we could make it fresh, fun, unpretentious, and, most important, about delicious wine….

2009 Bordeaux Dinner & Tasting

Thursday, February 28, 2013 6:30 PM Limited availability Phone reservations ONLY: 510-547-5356 Oliveto is proud to announce a very special event coming up at the end of this month. Thanks to our friend & Oliveto regular John Fox, one of the two principle owners of Premier Cru in Berkeley, Oliveto diners will have the rare [...]

Winemaker Dinner: Le Vigne di Alice

Winemaker Cinzia Canzian (one website refers to her as “the wonder woman of Venetian bubbly”) of Le Vigne di Alice, a small-scale boutique winery located in the Veneto region, will be joining us for dinner this Friday to share some of her lovely sparkling wines. The menu will be…

Winemaker Dinner with Scacciadiavoli

Please join us for dinner at Oliveto Restaurant as we welcome Liu Pambuffetti, winemaker for Azienda Agraria Scacciadiavoli in the Montefalco region of Umbria.
Chef Jonah Rhodehamel will prepare a special four-course menu that will be paired with outstanding wines from the Scacciadiavoli Winery….

This Monday: Paolo Cantele in the House

September 24, 2012 Please join us for dinner on Monday, when Paolo Cantele will be here and we’ll be serving up some of the Cantele estate’s fine selection of puglian wines. The Cantele winery produces 2 million bottles annually, including indigenous Pugliese grapes like Primitivo and Negroamaro as well as international varieties like Chardonnay, Merlot [...]

More From Our Celebrated Piedmontese Chef and Chef Jonah

As our event gets closer, and more ideas express themselves over the internet among the chefs (Pastry Chef Jenny Raven has joined Marco and Jonah with an opinion and query about the Piemontese bunet), a postable, but not-quite-ready-for-prime-time, menu is taking form. Added to the below menu will be …

Announcing Two Evenings with Two Very Special Guests from Piedmont

For the past decade-and-a-half, visitors to the Piedmont, after asking any winemaker (or local with the usual piedmontese passion for food and wine), “Which restaurants should I absolutely not miss for a true and exceptional Piedmont experience?” would first be directed to Marco Forneris’ La Libera in the city of Alba. We are delighted to announce that ….

Look Who’s Coming To Dinner: Randall Grahm

Monday, September 19th Last year, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Bonny Doon’s Le Cigare Volant, Randall Grahm’s great Rhone Valley blend that has contributed so much to California’s wine palette. More importantly, we celebrated Randall’s newest adventure–his latest efforts in reinventing the way he makes wine. Here’s some background on what he’s up to. [...]

Drinks for Oceanic Dinners 2011

We’ll be featuring Randall Grahm’s Bonny Doon wines for this year’s Oceanic Dinners because duh, we really like his wines! But also because he’s always been ahead of the pack on the transparency front and in that regard, his commitment to tell-all labels makes a fine compliment to our well-linked menu. Always an amusing teller of tales, we asked Randall…