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Our Guide To San Francisco: Shop ‘Til You Drop!

San Francisco (and the surrounding area) is a weird, weird place.  Strange people, neighborhoods, bodegas, nightlife, and shops.  It is something you have to embrace when you live here.  You can always go downtown and deal with the tourist’s hustle and bustle to get the finest goods from…

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Transportation & Enjoyment (Musings on Bottle Shock & Travel Conditions)

To understand the ideas behind travel & bottle shock (bottle sickness, travel shock, shipping shock), we must first understand that wine is a living, breathing organism.  This is from the same understanding that is the basis of aging wines.  We’d always prefer a cool, dark cellar with stable…