#urban wineries

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Six Ounces to Fine: Oakland Holiday! 9 Wines to Give and Drink!

By Granate Sosnoff

Oakland and nearby winemakers offer elegant and dazzling wines to choose from for your favorite people. So why not skip wine country traffic and the daunting aisles of bottles in well-lit chains, and for your next event (party, dinner, glass-in-your-hand-while-you-sauté,) try one of these local beauties.

Also, if you’re into wine world chat you may have heard a bit about the New California Wine – less overpowering big fruit and more terroir-driven wines made from grapes grown beyond Napa Valley, in overlooked places like El Dorado and Lodi. Many representatives of these low-intervention, smoother wines are being made right here …

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Six Ounces to Fine - Two Mile Wines from Oaklandia

(My) new piece up on Oakland Local last week.

An excerpt:

"The wines are exceptional. And proof that with an intentionally light touch, in the right hands, outstanding, sustainable, organic, and biodynamic grapes yield a swoon-worthy bottle.

The fact that Two Mile ascribes to a credo that’s basically 'no working with assholes' makes it even better."