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Restaurant wining and dining is back in the Bay Area. But please don t BYOB Restaurant wining and dining is back in the Bay Area. But please don t BYOB Why bringing your own wine bottle to a restaurant right now is just rude, in this week s Drinking with Esther newsletter FacebookTwitterEmail A selection of Italian wines at Uva Enoteca in the Haight, seen in February 2020 before the pandemic.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle 2020 Lately, I’ve been returning to a ritual that I’d practiced only sparingly since the start of the pandemic: going out to restaurants. It’s been wonderful. The weather has made outdoor dining so appealing. And things are starting to feel just a little bit safer, now that 45% of San Francisco residents 16 and older have received at least one vaccination dose, according to city data though it’s important to remember that plenty of safety concerns remain, possibly even for people who have been vaccinated, as my colleague J ....
Special Report 12 California wines that define 2020 These wines, which make up a case, are not only delicious they tell the story of what happened with wine in this tumultuous year By Esther Mobley | Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 9:23 AM 2020 has been an earth-shattering year for the American wine world. And it would have been even without the coronavirus. Major fires plowed through some of California’s most prestigious terroir, destroying wineries and threatening an unprecedented volume of wine grapes with the insidious malady of smoke taint. The nationwide reckoning with racial injustice forced the wine world to confront its inequities in a new, stark way and then allegations of sexual assault within the country’s most elite sommelier organization forced a similar reexamination of its deeply ingrained sexism. ....