My father Bob is perhaps Rosenblum Cellars’ most loyal customer.  For years, he’s been buying and drinking and extolling the virtues of their various Zinfandels sourced from all over California, Paso Robles to Livermore to Lake County.  During his last visit to San Francisco while I was still living there, we ventured over the Bay [...]

Twenty minutes before we were due to leave for the hike, it started raining.  We knew it was coming; the morning sun’s fleecy warmth had slowly given way to a zip-up, leaf-green fleece as the clouds crawled over Carmel Valley from the Pacific Ocean like dry ice from a bucket, chilling the air with moisture [...]