Monday night’s Mixology Contest was action-packed! Everyone did a great job reviewing and judging the cocktails from their mobile phones. A big thanks to our fearless Fox Force 5, who concocted some fantastic new Square One Cucumber-inspired cocktails.
Competition Results
Send a toast to Monday night’s femme fatals by clicking on their names below:
Brooke Arthur - Fall Fizz @ Range - Best of the Night - Audience Award
Tina Brandelli - C-Note @ Alembic - Most Creative and Unique
Amanda Reed - Square Root @ Zinnia - Best Use of Square One Cucumber
Dagan Ministero and Guilhaume Gerard are all about, you guessed it, terroir. Their wine bar, Terroir Natural Wine Merchant, offers patrons reasonably priced, easy-to-drink wines that are both organic and authentic. The wines served at Terroir are made using biodynamic farming, organic native yeast fermentation, and low amounts of sulfur additives or some combination of the three. Each wine also exhibits the essence of sun, soil, terrain, and climate for its particular region of the world. What does that mean and why should you care? Bottom line, it means that you’re going to get a more natural and unique experience with Terroir wines, while still having fun drinking them.
The Nirvino Crew had the opportunity to taste some of Terroir’s latest offerings with Dagan and Guilhaume yesterday and they were beauties. Check out our tasting notes from a couple of the standouts:
Yesterday, we kicked off our Ten Best San Francisco cocktails list in typical Nirvino booze-soaked fashion. Bourbon & Branch, Absinthe, Beretta, Cantina, Elixir, Alembic, Zeitgeist, Jack Falstaff, Epic Roasthouse were all on the docket. The highlights of the afternoon were two off-the-cuff jams sessions from mixology savants Joel Baker @ Bourbon & Branch and Jeff Hollinger @ Absinthe. I’ll be posting details on each of our sessions in the next couple weeks. For results of the first Ten Best issue and all the cocktail photos from the afternoon, check these links out:
Sarah: We will miss you and Dan at the Gran Crew dinner tomorrow night! We'll let you know if ...
chef Vincenzo Esposito: I will try it Great thanks!!!! also great wines I was born in Viterbo and that is Wine ...
Camie: This would be an awesome practice to see adopted for California wines. I really dont ...
Sarah: Cool pics! Last night was so much fun!
Sam: Local venue hit the spot! The people were nice and Frias was quite nice. Manolo (Frias ...