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Thursday, March 3, 2016

The Cellar Wine Bar Folsom

The Cellar Wine Bar

Rustically decorated, an inviting atmosphere, and conveniently located in historic Folsom. This countrified looking wine bar offers, wine, beer, cheese & carcuterie boards, an array of tapas, and artisan flatbread pizzas.

A handsome shot of The Cellar Wine Bar Folsom check out their food menu

A shot of the bar from The Cellar Wine Bar's page they also have beer!

I do fancy happy hour and weekday specials. These types of offers are especially great if you're a traveler popping into wine bars on the weekdays, which is often the case. More wines to try! hooray!

Happy Hour Tuesday-Friday 4-6PM $4-$6 wine, beer, small dishes

Happy Hour All Day Tuesdays

Bubbles Wednesdays 50% Off Bottles of Bubbles

Thursdays 25% Off Every Bottle

A better visual of their wine list thecellarwinebar.com/wine/

Try wine by:

Flights (3 different glasses of wine, same or similar varietal/blend)

by 1/2 glass

by the glass

or by the bottle

I usually like to taste by the 1/2 glass and try much more.

Some of you must think I ought to be getting tired of all these meat & cheese boards by now.....

The Cellar Cheese & Meat Board

So here's how the meat & cheese boards work

Small Board: Choose any 3 items from their meats & cheeses list

Large Board: Choose any 5 items from their meats & cheese list

Add another item $4

Gluten Free $3

Boards are served with nuts, olives, fig jam, apricot jam, Dijon granular mustard, and bread.

The Rind Sacramento

By winoabroad 1:17 AM // No comments

The Rind

www.therindsacramento.com

1801 L Street, Suite 40, Sacramento, CA 95816

(Near Buckhorn Grill, Down the road de Vere's Irish Pub)

Phone: (916)441-RIND (7463)

Hours:

Monday-Wednesday 11AM-10PM

Thursday 11AM-11PM

Friday-Saturday 11AM-12AM

Sunday 11AM-10PM

Dimly lit with a home like feel, The Rind, the perfect name for what they do here, cheese galore! Grilled cheese sandwiches, mac & cheese, cheese boards, cheese fondue, and of course wine and beer. The Rind even does this thing called "Legen-Dairy Hour" (their happy hour) Monday-Saturday 3PM-6PM and all day Sunday! $1 off draft beers and $2 off wines by the glass. This is a great place to start the night, especially while your palate is still fresh and able to distinguish between wines if you're doing flights, and trying different cheeses. Because let's be serious, everything starts to taste divine after a few glasses of wine.

Image by Melanie Wong on Chowhound http://goo.gl/LYnrIY

Snug and cozy The Rind is. There are quite a few tables for a more intimate setting. And my favorite a bar! great for if you are alone, or if you want to chat up the staff about their wine, beer, and cheeses.

At night it is dimly lit, so if you are like me and like to ogle over the color of your wine then I recommend going before dark.

Legen-Dairy Hour it is!

There's an amusing little mix between California wines, some old world wines, and even a late harvest Sauvignon Blanc from Chile on their list. No wine list is complete without dessert wines! A wonderful contrast food and wine pairing I love to indulge in is Port with bleu cheeses.

Image by Brian Espinosa https://plus.google.com/+brianespinosa/posts

What I love about this place...besides the cheese and wine of course, is their daily specials. Their "weekly cheesey-cool things to do" reminded me of all the times I joined "Big Beer Tuesdays" at Beer & Cheese Social House in Taipei, Taiwan.

Monday Fondue Nights 5-10PM

Wine Wednesdays, All Day- Free cheese boards with $30 or more wine bottle purchase

Thursday Flight Nights 9:30PM-11PM (half pours of any 3 or more wines or draft beers)

"Kitchen closes around 10pm, cheese boards, wine, and beer are served until just before closing."

Revolution Wines Sacramento

By winoabroad 1:08 AM // No comments

Revolution Wines

rev.wine

2831 S Street, Sacramento, CA 95816

(Near Temple Coffee)

Phone: (916) 444-7711

Hours:
Monday Closed
Tuesday-Thursday 11:30AM-9PM
Friday-Saturday 11:30AM-10PM
Sunday 11:30AM-9PM

"Sacramento's terroir" that's what revolution wines is doing.

Upon first walking in here I thought Revolution Wines may be like any other wine bar, but that thought was far from true. Revolution Wines is a wine bar and urban winery embodying the concept of Sacramento's terroir, by using wine grapes from locally sourced vineyards, and serving up delicious bites using local ingredients.

What is terroir exactly? Think of it as being the taste of a place. Take Chardonnay; a versatile and terroir expressive grape variety that is grown all over the world. Chardonnay grown in Burgundy, is going to taste different compared to Chardonnay grown in California, Australia, or even Canada; due to factors such as climate, soil, terrain, and even wine making techniques.

Courtesy of Wine Folly

Hours of Operation

Not a fan of sitting inside? Revolution Wines has a giant outside patio prettily decorated with gleaming lights reminiscent of the glow of a city street after the rain.

Wine on tap! yes!

Picture from rev.wine

Wine and food pairing recommendations

Wine flights are always a great way to familiarize yourself with the difference between varieties.

Choose from wine by the glass, half carafe, or full carafe.

Wines on tap are available for the RENEW refillable bottle program.

List from rev.wine

The Wine List and prices

Picture from Revolution Wines Menu

Cheese Platters

Block Butcher Bar Sacramento

By winoabroad 12:43 AM // No comments

Block Butcher Bar

http://www.blockbutcherbar.com

1050 20th St, Sacramento, CA 95811
(Near LowBrau & Azul)
Phone: (916) 706-2636

Hours:
Monday-Sunday 4PM-1AM

Conveniently located in the heart of midtown Sacramento, if you are looking for a place with an array of charcuterie, fromage, and yes of course wine! this is where you need to be.

Photo by Marc Thomas Kallweit

A happening area on the weekends

Living in Asia for quite some time, my meat and cheese plate fix has been long overdue. Sure there are places where you can get meat and cheese platters all around Asia, but it's never quite like home. As soon as I walked into this place and took a look around, I spotted the pig masks hanging up in the back. I was immediately evoked with thoughts of the past and recalled a strange episode of Ren & Stimpy! I can't quite say if remembering that show is a good thing or not...(for any of you, who have watched it) I love it when wine reminds me of something long ago or brings me back to a time or place in the past, but oddly enough it was the meat masks that had me overtaken by nostalgia.

Meat, cheese, wine, good company, nostalgia=bliss.

This place tends to fill up fast, and meats and cheeses are not served all night. Do yourself a favor! come early, try more, have more time to drink more wine =)