Napa Valley Wine and Food Village, Cairdean Estates, launches Art Program
artist Israel Valencia
Cairdean Estate, Napa Valley’s Wine & Food Village, reports that it is unveiling an art program with an estate-wide exhibition in conjunction with the Rosgal Gallery (“Rose-gal”) Gallery.
Anticipating the 2015 opening of Rosgal Gallery, Cairdean has integrated the artists’ work throughout the property and among the Estate’s wine and food offerings.
Owners Edwin and Stacia Williams have invited several leading and emerging Napa Valley artists for their premiere exhibition and artist’s reception including Wade Hoefer, Israel Valencia, Teri Tito and Matt Torrens plus guest artist Ryan Sorrell, hailing from Texas, to display their fine art including paintings, photography, foil mosaics and sculpture.
artist Matt Torrens
Art lovers can view the art of Rosgal Gallery along with the Cairdean Vineyard’s Tasting Room, Butterscots Bakery, Deli & Culinary Market, The Farmer & The Fox, and Cairdean’s Michelin Bib Gourmand Award-winning gastropub.
ABOUT CAIRDEAN ESTATE:
Cairdean Estate, Napa Valley’s Wine & Food Village, is a new, essential destination for California’s Wine Country. Celebrating the ever-entwining worlds of wine and food, Cairdean Estate has onsite a tasting room open daily to the public, a private, by appointment only tasting room, a 2015 Michelin Bib Gourmand Award winning gastropub,
Interior
The Farmer & The Fox, serving dinner nightly, and Butterscots Bakery & Deli, offering sandwiches, salads, pastries, baked and frozen desserts, fresh-baked breads and rolls for breakfast and lunch daily. Menus for both venues are created by San Francisco Bay Area favorite and Michelin-recognized Chef Joseph Humphrey. Both restaurants serve beer, wine and artisan craft cocktails.
Butterscots Interior
2015 will see the completion of the Wine & Food Village with the opening of Rosgal Gallery, to feature rotating exhibitions, and Redolent Mercantile, a retail experience in finds exclusive to Napa and even California. Upon completion in 2015, the Cairdean Vineyards Winery, designed by Juancarlos Fernandez and Jarrod Denton of Signum Architecture in St. Helena, will boast extensive wine caves and the largest grass roof in Napa Valley. “Cairdean” means “friends” in Scottish Gaelic and captures the heritage of owners Edwin and Stacia Williams while upholding their belief that wine and food are multi-sensory experiences best enjoyed among friends and loved ones.
artist Teri Tito woodwork
artist Ryan Sorrell
H29 delivers Great Wine in Bottle and on Tap with High Design
Stephen Chew likes to say that he is not a professional restaurateur. But with several years of success and multiple restaurants in his portfolio, one might want to question that premise. The newest project launched by him and his partners is called, H29 Coffee and Wine Bar, located in Burlingame, California (South of San Francisco and North of Palo Alto).
The cafe was named after the historic Highway 29 in Napa Valley, and the wine connection does not end there. The decor is sleek and industrialized, but in a warm and breathy wine-country theme. The rooms are divided in general between a streamlined “to-go” coffee shop which stays fairly busy during the day, and a larger restaurant and wine bar which serves food and wine for those who want to sit and take their time.
Says Stephen, “This space was originally another one of our restaurants, which we moved to another location. Then we used it as a kind of pop-up for Thai ‘river food.’ The food was good, but it took too much work to explain to people the difference between it and regular Thai food. So we decided to gut the space, event to the ceilings, and do something really different.”
One successful difference is that they have brought to the upscale town of Burlingame, flowing with tech and finance money, an affordable and stylish wine bar. Of course they have an extensive selection of vintages from which to chose, but what stands out most is their inexpensive yet high quality selection of wines on-tap. These includes labels such as Hahn and Liberty School.
The food is intriguing, and one of our favorites is the Cauliflower Risotto with Grilled Shrimp. The dish is made without rice, and uses the cauliflower as its base. The flavors mixed together have an appealing bite, and are quite appealing.
For anyone on the San Francisco Peninsula looking for a great glass of wine in a cool environment with tasty food and coffee, we recommend H29.
(650) 342-2992
The High Style Fashion Exhibition
TasteTV visits the opening gala for the High Style fashion exhibition, in San Francisco at the Legion of Honor.
This rare exhibition is on tour from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Costume Institute of the MoMA.
See TasteTV video feature here:
Spread the Love Jams and Jelly are Delicious
Marilyn Johnson may be a home cook, but thanks to the California’s Cottage Food law she is also now an official commercial jam maker, and her jams are worth a taste. Her firm, “Spread the Love Jams & Jellies,” is based south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay, California.
We sampled three of her flavors to see if they stood out from the several other jams and jellies on the market. Marilyn uses a great deal of creativity in conceiving her creations. For example, she has flavors such as Apricot Pineapple, Pear Ginger, and Cranberry Habanero. However we felt what might really be a good test is to see how a staple flavor, like traditional Strawberry Jam, compared to others.
Fortunately we were not disappointed. The flavor was fresh, very present, and had a long mouth feel. In other words the flavor of strawberry lingered after you finished swallowing the taste. In addition, there was no need to put a large volume of jam on your medium (toast or crackers). Even a small amount spread to cover the entire surface, as well as deliver the full flavor of strawberry.
Says the company:
“We make our delectable jams with solely organic, non-GMO ingredients. All of the fruits used in our products were either bought directly from organic farms or wild harvested by the owner herself. For sweetening, Spread the Love uses low sugar non-GMO pectin and organic cane sugar.”
Based on this evaluation, our conclusion is that “Spread the Love Jams & Jellies” is indeed a welcome newcomer to the artisan confiture market.
