May 28th, 2013 by Sarah Bruhns
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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….
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May 13th, 2013 by Sarah Bruhns
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Oliveto Sommelier Esteban Brunello has recently been featured in a StarChefs article, talking about some of his favorite pairings with with Executive Chef Jonah’s unique dishes……
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March 13th, 2013 by Sarah Bruhns
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Mark your calendar for a special winemaker dinner with Tres Sabores and Villa Ragazzi wineries. Tres Sabores in Rutherford CA and Villa Ragazzi estate winery in Oakville CA are partnering with Oliveto for a 3-course family-style meal, featuring Faraona Guinea hens….
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February 13th, 2013 by Catherine Meng
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 [...]
February 4th, 2013 by Catherine Meng
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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…
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November 5th, 2012 by Bob Klein
Aldo Vacca of Produttori del Barbaresco gives us his vintage picks for this year’s truffle dinners: The Oliveto WIT program officially launched in 2007 with the intention of finding a way to serve great, age-worthy wine at somewhat affordable prices. Serving Barbaresco or Barolo with only five or six years of age doesn’t do wines [...]
September 21st, 2012 by Catherine Meng
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 [...]
March 6th, 2012 by Catherine Meng
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The kitchen just received delivery of fifteen Guinea hen from Tres Sabores Winery in Rutherford, CA.
Owner and winemaker Julie Johnston sees these hens as an integral part of the winery’s ecosystem. Along with the help of sheep, birds, bees, insects, the hen help maintain a delicate balance that…
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July 12th, 2011 by Catherine Meng
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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…
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May 5th, 2011 by Bob Klein
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A consistently hot and dry region, the grapes of Puglia are most often very ripe and high in alcohol. And while Puglia is not one of the prized wine-producing regions of Italy, like much of southern Italy viticulture, it has more recently begun to evolve in interesting ways.
For Puglia, the grape of the moment is…
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