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What makes it so special?

At Solano Cellars, the goal of a special event is to suspend time, revivify the spirits and to bestow a childlike sense of inebriation. Our events range from large tastings featuring many wineries to supper clubs, winemaker cookouts and costume parties. We enjoy and admire wine and have no interest in the clinical approach to such a pleasurable pursuit. To that end, we offer a variety of inventive attractions to simultaneously educate, delight and provoke.

Have a great idea for a wine event at Solano Cellars? Send it our way: events@solanocellars.com

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Saturday, March 16th, 4-7pm, JoliVin Imports Tasting at Solano Cellars

Our Price: $15.00

Rising Stars of France
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The duo of Gary Roshke and Nadia Dmytriw have combined to carefully construct an impressive collection of French wineries that they import directly to the Bay Area.

At this early stage of their development, they look much like how we imagine the early portfolios of Kermit Lynch, Neal Rosenthal and Louis/Dressner. Small, but perfect, and getting better with each new addition.

The beauty of the JoliVin selection has always been the grace and balance of the wines. Whatever corner of France the wines originate from, they all have a quiet beauty to them - silky textures, complex flavors and low alcohols. They are really a treat to drink and to cellar.

What's better still is the portfolio's attraction to producers working organically and in some cases biodynamically. Join us on Friday as we welcome Nadia as she presents the following wines from this ascendant importer.

Sarazinière Mâcon-Bussières "Le Pavillon", Burgundy, 2011

Tournelle Terres de Gryphées Chardonnay, Jura, 2011

Vincent Gaudry Sancerre "Le Tournebride", Loire, 2011

Rimbert Travers de Marceau, Saint-Chinian, Languedoc2011
Julien Sunier Morgon, Beaujolais, 2011

Emmanuel Darnaud Crozes-Hermitage Trois Chênes, Northern Rhone, 2010

Clot de l'Oum Côtes du Roussillon "Saint Bart Vieilles Vignes", Roussillon, 2010

The tasting is just $15 and $5 of that is rebated with a purchase of wine.

Monsters of Rioja - Friday, 4/26 at 5:30pm - Vine Street

Our Price: $20.00

Bay Area wine merchants since 2005

2113 Vine St. 510.665.8600

MONSTERS OF RIOJA
Friday, April 26, 5:30 - 6:30 & 7:00 - 8:00
Vintage Berkeley Vine St. & College Ave.

April's big tasting focuses on the wines of Rioja, Spain's most heralded wine region. We'll be pouring an unbelievable lineup of iconic producers like Lopez de Heredia & La Rioja Alta, along with some of our favorite smaller, lesser-known bodegas. As always, one-night-only discounts will be available at the tasting on all wines poured. If you've ever wanted to experience the best & most age-worthy Tempranillo-based wines on the planet, now's your chance.

TASTING MENU

1994 Lopez de Heredia Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva $109 (96 RP)

2001 Lopez de Heredia Viña Tondonia Reserva $49 (95 RP)

2001 La Rioja Alta Gran Reserva 904 $65 $96 RP)

2001 Señorío de P. Peciña Reserva $36 (91 RP)

2003 Lopez de Heredia Viña Bosconia Reserva $42 (92 RP)

2004 Conde de Hervias Rioja $69 (91)

2005 Muga Prado Enea Gran Reserva $65 (95 RP)

2005 La Rioja Alta Viña Arana Reserva $37 (93 RP)

2008 Remelluri Rioja $45 (90 RP)

Damn, that's a lot of points!

Even more wines TBA...stay tuned.

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Friday, April 26, 5:30 - 6:30 & 7:00 - 8:00

Vintage Berkeley Vine Street & College Ave

...or call us at 510.665.8600 (Vine Street) & 510.549.9501 (College Ave)

Monsters of Rioja - Friday, 4/26 at 7:00pm - Vine Street

Our Price: $20.00

Bay Area wine merchants since 2005

2113 Vine St. 510.665.8600

TASTING MENU

1994 Lopez de Heredia Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva $109 (96 RP)

2001 Lopez de Heredia Viña Tondonia Reserva $49 (95 RP)

2001 La Rioja Alta Gran Reserva 904 $65 $96 RP)

2001 Señorío de P. Peciña Reserva $36 (91 RP)

2003 Lopez de Heredia Viña Bosconia Reserva $42 (92 RP)

2004 Conde de Hervias Rioja $69 (91)

2005 Muga Prado Enea Gran Reserva $65 (95 RP)

2005 La Rioja Alta Viña Arana Reserva $37 (93 RP)

2008 Remelluri Rioja $45 (90 RP)

Damn, that's a lot of points!

Even more wines TBA...stay tuned.

BUY TICKETS
Friday, April 26, 5:30 - 6:30 & 7:00 - 8:00

Vintage Berkeley Vine Street & College Ave

...or call us at 510.665.8600 (Vine Street) & 510.549.9501 (College Ave)

Monsters of Rioja - Friday, 4/26 at 5:30pm - College Ave.

Our Price: $20.00

Bay Area wine merchants since 2005

2113 Vine St. 510.665.8600

TASTING MENU

1994 Lopez de Heredia Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva $109 (96 RP)

2001 Lopez de Heredia Viña Tondonia Reserva $49 (95 RP)

2001 La Rioja Alta Gran Reserva 904 $65 $96 RP)

2001 Señorío de P. Peciña Reserva $36 (91 RP)

2003 Lopez de Heredia Viña Bosconia Reserva $42 (92 RP)

2004 Conde de Hervias Rioja $69 (91)

2005 Muga Prado Enea Gran Reserva $65 (95 RP)

2005 La Rioja Alta Viña Arana Reserva $37 (93 RP)

2008 Remelluri Rioja $45 (90 RP)

Damn, that's a lot of points!

Even more wines TBA...stay tuned.

BUY TICKETS
Friday, April 26, 5:30 - 6:30 & 7:00 - 8:00

Vintage Berkeley Vine Street & College Ave

...or call us at 510.665.8600 (Vine Street) & 510.549.9501 (College Ave)

Monsters of Rioja - Friday, 4/26 at 7:00pm - College Ave.

Our Price: $20.00

Bay Area wine merchants since 2005

2113 Vine St. 510.665.8600

TASTING MENU

1994 Lopez de Heredia Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva $109 (96 RP)

2001 Lopez de Heredia Viña Tondonia Reserva $49 (95 RP)

2001 La Rioja Alta Gran Reserva 904 $65 $96 RP)

2001 Señorío de P. Peciña Reserva $36 (91 RP)

2003 Lopez de Heredia Viña Bosconia Reserva $42 (92 RP)

2004 Conde de Hervias Rioja $69 (91)

2005 Muga Prado Enea Gran Reserva $65 (95 RP)

2005 La Rioja Alta Viña Arana Reserva $37 (93 RP)

2008 Remelluri Rioja $45 (90 RP)

Damn, that's a lot of points!

Even more wines TBA...stay tuned.

BUY TICKETS
Friday, April 26, 5:30 - 6:30 & 7:00 - 8:00

Vintage Berkeley Vine Street & College Ave

...or call us at 510.665.8600 (Vine Street) & 510.549.9501 (College Ave)

Titans Of Tokaji Part II - Friday, May 24 - Vintage Berkeley Vine St. - 6:30 - 8:00

Our Price: $20.00

Bay Area wine merchants since 2005

2113 Vine St. 510.665.8600

TITANS OF TOKAJI PART II
Friday, May 24, 6:30 - 8:00
Vintage Berkeley Vine Street ONLY

Featuring the best producers, rarest wines, and never-before-imported selections from one of the oldest wine regions on earth. This promises to be one of the most extensive Tokaji tastings the West Coast has ever seen.

A month ago we partnered with Blue Danube Wine Company—Bay Area importers of all things Eastern European and amazing—and hosted a one-night tasting of some of the best and rarest Tokaji ever imported into the United States.

The event was a huge hit and sold out very quickly, so we decided to give it another go in May. If you missed out on the first event because it was full, now's your chance to taste these incredibly rare, small production wines.

Eric Danch will host and offer his first-hand knowledge and expertise as we taste through Hungary's finest grower-producers of dry, off-dry, and lusciously sweet Tokaji.

TASTING MENU

2011 Bodrog Borműhely Löszbor $19
* 2007 Samuel Tinon Dry Szamorodini (500ml)

2008 Demeter Zoltán "Eszter" (375ml) $62
2008 Patricius Katinka Late Harvest (375ml)

2002 Patricius 5 Puttonyos Tokaji Aszú (500ml) $35
* 2005 Samuel Tinon 5 Puttonyos Tokaji Aszú (500ml) $84
* 2006 Dorogi 6 Puttonyos Tokaji Aszú (500ml) $108
* 2008 Dorogi Tokaji Eszencia (250ml) $195

* denotes wine that has never before been imported to the US

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Friday, May 24, 6:30 - 8:00

Vintage Berkeley Vine Street

6:30-8:00 Vintage Berkeley Vine St. (2113 Vine St. @ Shattuck Ave): $20

...or call us at 510.665.8600

Due to the very limited quantity of these wines and the more intimate importer-led tasting, we are limiting the number of attendees to 25 for this event.

Please try to arrive promptly the night of the tasting, as Eric will be taking us through the wines as a group.

Tuesday, February 26th, 4-7pm - Vertical of Bernard Levet Cote Roties at Solano Cellars

Our Price: $35.00

There are few wines in this world that romance you like the rare Syrahs of the Northern Rhone. Pictured below are the terraced vineyards first cultivated 25 centuries ago. First, the Greeks arrived and used what they had learned from the Celts. Later, Romans built the famous cheys, the odd tee-pee support structures that wrangle the unruly Syrah vine, as well as the stone pile terraces that protect this valuable land from eroding into the Rhone river. Each era of viticulture struggled mightily to tame this hill expressly for the purpose of preserving its grapevines. Why would generation after generation care so much about the petite serine, the odd indigenous Syrah clone, that they would toil so tirelessly?

In these rare Syrahs, a wine lover can discover one of the last great secrets of the wine world - flavors without compromise, hailing from milennia past. Ask a person familiar with the wines of Côte-Rôtie to characterize them and not only will you be bowled over with unexpected combinations of descriptors, but also the personality of the wine is described with great passion.

For the great Syrah-based wines from antiquity were powerful, unique, deliciously bizarre. Treasures that blended the savage with the intellectual. Fully unapologetic in their brilliance.

If you haven't had these wines, you haven't had Syrah.

Like their counterparts to the north in Burgundy's Cote d'Or, the wines of the Northern Rhone are vins de garde - wines that can please in their youth, but that can transcend with time in the bottle. With this in mind, we've selected a string of consecutive vintages from one of the last great traditional producers, so that we may illustrate fully how deserving of respect (and cellar-space) these wines are.

Winemaking with conviction: Bernard Levet and his daughter Agnes make two bottlings of Côte-Rôtie and in their production, they reject the tricks that have been employed by their more commercial-minded neighbors. They are the same tricks that threaten the unique wines the world over: smothering them in oak, harvesting super-ripe fruit, using micro-oxygenation, filtration and over-extraction to generate fat, soft, lazy wines devoid of character.

Why do we get so heated about winemaking techniques and their impact? For the same reason we delight in new cuisines, new musics and new art and find ourselves fatigued by the generic and the pop. If you love the richness of the world's variety, you want the same in your wine.

Join us as we invite you deep down the rabbit hole.

February 26th, 4-7pm
(this is the drop-in, unguided tasting)

A dual vertical tasting of Bernard Levet's Côte Rôtie.

5 vintages of "Les Journaries" (2005-2009)
and
7 vintages of "La Chavaroche"
(2003-2009)

Super-Freaky Wine Tasting WITH VIP - Saturday, March 30, 6-9pm at Solano Cellars

Our Price: $40.00

Saturday, March 30th, 6-9pm

It's the most wonderful time of the year for lovers of exceptional wines from France and Italy's natural wine specialists. Dozens of great new wines are arriving on our shores, bursting with personality and just begging to added to the spring and summer table. Be the first on your block (perhaps even the first in your neighborhood) to try and buy the most exciting new wines!

Taste 15+ brilliantly alive wines from France and Italy from the best recent vintages. Huge discounts on wines being shown at the tasting.

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YES, VERY GOOD. BUT WHAT SHALL WE BE TASTING THIS DAY?

TASTING MENU (REGULAR TASTING - $20/per)

Sparkling

1. Terres Dorees Cremant de Bourgogne "Charme" - $25
2. Jean-Paul Brun "FRV100", $25

White

3. 2011 Immich-Batterieberg Riesling Trocken (Dry) "Batterieberg" - Mosel, Germany (Riesling)- $55
4. 2010 Domaine de la Pepiere "Clisson" Muscadet, Loire, France (Melon de Bourgogne) - $28
5. 2011 Gerard Boulay Sancerre "Chavignol", Loire, France (Sauvignon Blanc) - $32
6. 2011 Domaine du Closel Savennieres "La Jalousie", Loire, France (Chenin Blanc) - $27

Red

7. 2011 Desvignes Morgon "La Voute St. Vincent" - Beaujolais, FR (Gamay) - $23
7. 2010 Elisabetta Foradori Teroldego, Dolomiti, IT (Teroldego) - $29
9. 2011 Clos du Tue-Bouef Cheverny Rouge "Rouillion" Loire, FR (Pinot Noir) - $25
10. Thierry Puzelat "In Cot We Trust", Loire, FR (Malbec) - $28
11. Zelige-Caravent "Ellipse", Languedoc, FR - $27.50
12. 2009 Sanguineto Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Tuscany, IT (Sangiovese) - $44
13. 2010 J.L Chave Cotes du Rhone "Mon Coeur" (Grenache blend), FR - $23.50

Also included in this ticket:

THE SUPER FREAKS ($20 extra)
This collection of Italian wines will leave even the most jaded wine lover muttering in disbelief. If you love wine and want to see the distant reaches, you must add these additional wines to your tasting menu!!

1. 2011 DeBartoli Pietranera, Marsala, Sicily, IT (Zibbibo) - $40
2. 2010 Radikon "S" Slatnik, Friuli, IT - $45
3. 2008 La Stoppa Ageno (orange wine), Emilia-Romagna, IT - $45
4. 2011 Panevino "Piccade Rosse", Sardegna, IT - $55
5. 2008 Salvo Foti "Vinupetra", Sicily, IT - $62