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Mendocino seems plucked out of a storybook, with its magical coastal scenery, picturesque storefronts, and charming inns. It's where New England style meets California living. It's where the redwoods converge with the Pacific Ocean. It's where you can't get a bar of cell service, and you're not even...

California's Anderson Valley is a wine region you should know about. Learn about its history, wines and the people making them.

California’s Anderson Valley is a paradise for Pinot Noir and community. Learn more about seven of the region's winemakers here.

Hang around wine lovers long enough and you’ll likely hear the phrases “clean” or “unprocessed wine”—but do these buzzwords actually mean anything? We brought that question to an industry insider.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an incalculable toll on the food industry workers of America, from restaurant servers and meat plant workers, to the farmworkers who toil in fields. According to research from the University of California, San Francisco, food industry workers’ risk of dying went up by 40 percent from March to October 2020. For Latinx workers, deaths increased by 60 percent in the sector.  In a six-part series, we’ll be honoring the lives of those we have lost to COVID-19. We...

Counting the Bay Areas lost lives during the coronavirus pandemic Chronicle staff FacebookTwitterEmail Todd Trumbull COVID-19 has claimed more than 2.6 million lives worldwide since the start of the pandemic with more than 5,500 of those deaths being Bay Area residents. The first Bay Area virus-related death was reported March 9, 2020, more than a month after California’s first reported case. A later autopsy, however, linked the death of a Santa Clara County resident on Feb. 6 to the virus, w...

The most overlooked wine stories of 2020 The most overlooked wine stories of 2020 Beyond the big headlines of coronavirus, wildfires and racial justice, these were the other wine developments that mattered this year, in this weeks Drinking with Esther newsletter FacebookTwitterEmail A variety of wines sit on shelves at Ordinaire Wine Shop and Wine Bar, located at 3354 Grand Ave., on Friday, July 10, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. Jirka Jireh, a manager and sommelier at Ordinaire Wine Shop and Wine Ba...