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Senior wine critic, San Francisco Chronicle
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More than Chartreuse slushies: Why this Top 100 restaurant is the Bay Area’s best wine destination

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By Esther Mobley Verified
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
Sirene earned its No. 73 spot on the Chronicle’s Top 100 Restaurants list largely because of its excellent buttermilk-brined fried chicken and inventive seafood charcuterie. But what the Oakland restaurant wants to be known for — and what it really ought to be known for — is its singular wine list. “It’s a big undertaking, but we want it to be known as the wine destination of the East Bay,” wine director Alec Cummings said.
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One bottle after another: Can this formerly radical California winery stay relevant?

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By Esther Mobley Verified
| Yahoo Life Verified
Arnot-Roberts was once the poster-child radical of California wine. The Sonoma County winery was sourcing fruit from sites widely believed too cold to grow red wine grapes, seeking out arcane varieties like Trousseau years before Bay Area wine bars were going nuts for them and putting out daringly low-alcohol wines in an era when drinkers clamored for 15% ABV reds. Twenty-five years after its first vintage, we live in the wine world that Arnot-Roberts created.
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One bottle after another: Can this formerly radical California winery stay relevant?

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By Esther Mobley Verified
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
Arnot-Roberts was once the poster-child radical of California wine. The Sonoma County winery was sourcing fruit from sites widely believed too cold to grow red wine grapes, seeking out arcane varieties like Trousseau years before Bay Area wine bars were going nuts for them and putting out daringly low-alcohol wines in an era when drinkers clamored for 15% ABV reds. Twenty-five years after its first vintage, we live in the wine world that Arnot-Roberts created.
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