Wine

$1 Wine-Tasting for Broke-Ass Romantics

By John Birdsall, SFoodie Editor, Thursday, May. 7 2009 @ 3:23PM
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Categories: Oakland

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A Lake Merritt moment
Brave the wilds of Oakland tonight, and you can savor $1 tastes served by a straight-up Italian gondolier. Franklin Square Wine Bar in restaurant-frenzied Uptown is pouring wines from the Roero region of Piedmont. Mario Roagna, winemaker for Cascina Val del Prete, will be uncorking Arneis, Barbera, and Nebbiolo (expect up to six 1-ounce tastes for your buck). Oh, and the gondolier? Angelino Sandri, who punts romantics around Lake Merritt for Gondola Servizio, and even sings. We're not kidding.

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Italian wines, Oakland, wine-tasting
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jason Carey says:

Cut the snarky allusions to Oakland please, it is not Siberia.It is a large urban area. it is not "the wilds".
Enough with the SF centric snobbery.

Posted On: Thursday, May. 7 2009 @ 6:39PM

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