1. Home
  2. General Wine Forum
  3. SF/Bay Area wine store for Gruner Veltliner?

SF/Bay Area wine store for Gruner Veltliner?

I'll be in San Francisco on Saturday for what's essentially a fundraiser picnic at Golden Gate Park. I have an oenophile friend I'll be visiting in October with a wine celler of more than a thousand bottles, maybe a couple of thousand. Needless to say, my gifts of wine are generally nothing special. I bought "Oldman's Guide to Outsmarting Wine" (bfson's positive review was right on the mark) and one wine he recommends for wine snobs, er, oenphiles, is Gruner Veltliner. Any suggestions for a wine store open late Saturday where I could get a bottle, either in San Francisco or reasonably close to Interstate 80? Any recommendations for which ones to get? To get it locally, I'd have to special order it. I'd just as soon buy it myself, especially if I get a better choice of wines.

Reply to
Steve Timko
Loading thread data ...

Reply to
Sibeer

Don't know their stocks, but K&L SF should have some. We had some very nice ones from the list of a restaurant, just around the corner (name eludes me at this instance), and the sommelier stated that he works closely with the folk at K&L. If I can recall, or track down that restaurant, I'll do so, as it was very, very good - just S of the freeway, near China Basin. Dang, I hate getting old!!!!!! :-(

Hunt

Reply to
Hunt
Reply to
Michael Pronay

K & L is great. You should also check out Vino Venue. There you can taste many many many wines by the glass (using a smart card! It's quite an experience). And as luck would have it, they are pouring some Winemonger imported Austrian wines, including Gruner Veltliner. They're open until 10PM on Saturdays, as they are also a wine bar as well as a shop. Here's their info:

formatting link

Michael covered your list well, but I would give a second "shout out" for the Alzinger, Heidler and Mantlerhof.

e.

formatting link
(for more info on those wines, if you like)

Reply to
e. winemonger

[SNIP]

Sorry that it took so long, but I've been a bit busy with the business of New Orleans & MS.

Here is the restaurant, near K&L SF. Bacar Restaurant & Wine Salon, 448 Brannan St (between 3rd & 4th), SF, CA, USA. The night that we were there, they had about five - six GV's on their list. Seems that we did three, plus a Gregory Graham Viognier. I recommend the food, and you might get to "taste before you buy" some of the GV's on your list.

Regardless, it also sounds like you have gotten some good rec's on GV's with comments by the experts, plus have found a retailer, who can meet your time frame. I've Saved_As the comments, for my next GV shopping spree!

Don't forget to give the group TN's from all of your purposes - or better yet, invite us ALL over to taste them with you. :-)

Good shopping, Hunt

Reply to
Hunt

Reply to
Joseph B. Rosenberg

Reply to
Steve Timko

^^ Hiedler

100% ack.

M.

Reply to
Michael Pronay

M- I could swear you were a grammar teacher in a former life! ;)

-e. "typo" winemonger

Reply to
e. winemonger

Take a look:

or, shorter:

SCNR ;-)

M.

Reply to
Michael Pronay

Not in my former life, but my 5-year job as an assistent professor at Vienna University Law School included intense proof-reading. And I still do it with one of the two magazines I write for.

M.

Reply to
Michael Pronay

My husband attended there for a year. Perhaps you have corrected him as well....! e.

Reply to
e. winemonger
Reply to
Michael Pronay

A small world indeed.

By the way, I sent you a private email- let me know if you did not receive it. e.

Reply to
e. winemonger

Got it, but still not sure about what to reply.

M.

Reply to
Michael Pronay

DrinksForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.