Food and Wine Tour of Sonoma County, California, with Jeffrey Moss | Pottery Barn
Take a tour of the gorgeous Sonoma County with expert stylist at Pottery Barn, Jeffrey Moss. Jeffrey gives you the inside scoop on where to find great food and wine. He also speaks upon several props used in the photography.
Jeffrey informs you that Jack London first called Sonoma County the 'Valley of the Moon'. Jeffrey goes to Sonoma in search of flavors for Pottery Barn's fall season. He visits food and wine places Vella Cheese Co. at Sonoma and Merry Edwards Winery at Sebastopol.
Jeffrey then visits antique shops Chelsea Antiques and Sienna Antiques at Petaluma, both of which provide him with props for the dressing rooms of Pottery Barn. He finally visits the restaurant 'The Girl and the Fig', at Sonoma.
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SONOMA VALLEY // Beer in Sonoma
We were commissioned by Sonomanews.com to update an old SONOMA magazine story Sarah had written and supplement it with a short video covering the subject of local craft beer in Sonoma. With our love for writing, filming and beer, we did not hesitate to say yes!
Ah, the alchemy of good beer. Water, yeast, malted grain, hops. It feels like such a quaint equation, and yet prattling off those four ingredients is where the simplicity ends and the darkling tide of chemistry begins, chemistry from which—after a thousand bubbly incantations—our muse emerges from behind steel and oak. There's a primitive comfort to good beer's complexity. While wine strives to tether its story to a geographic place, beer makes a humble home in its glass. Surely, it can be regional, but at its best, good beer is drink for the deconstructionist.
And if you are going to deconstruct, Sonoma Springs Brewing Company is the place to do it. Before we introduce owners Tim and Ann Goeppinger, here's a little history on how Sonoma Valley beer has fared in the past: it hasn't. While wineries have multiplied like Bacchanalian bunnies, breweries have dropped like flies, despite the brawn and bricks of their bold endeavors. Their ghosts are everywhere; the old stone relic housing Vella Cheese originally made beer before succumbing to Prohibition. Local wine czars the Benzigers once dabbled in estate-grown lagers with their ill-fated Sonoma Mountain Brewery, before ripping out the hapless hops and turning their production facility into what's now Imagery Estate Winery. Before the Red Grape, there was Siena Red Brewery, which didn't last two years. Hovering above these failures is the most storied spirit of all, legendary pioneer New Albion Brewery. Oft hailed (with a nostalgic sniffle) as the lost vanguard that launched America's microbrewing culture, New Albion's rustic operation was founded in Sonoma in 1976 by merchant seaman turned homebrew enthusiast Jack McAuliffe. For six years, New Albion churned out 150 barrels a week of boutique ales, porters and stouts from rented space in a fruit warehouse on Eighth Street East and Denmark, until it fell out of business and into a permanent state of hagiography—as America's patron saint of microbrewing.
Now, enter Sonoma Springs Brewing Company more than two decades later, no less authentically realized and no less Promethean in task. But Tim has done his homework, and to him, the rich and unfiltered Bavarian-style wheat ales and other unique brews he's crafting are perfectly suited to Wine Country's palate . . .
Read more and see photos at: sonomanews.com/News-2011/the-beer-engineer/
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California Cheese Crawl 2019 VLOG | San Francisco, Napa Valley, Modesto, etc. | The Tummy Train
[Close captioned in case there are some things I said that don't sound clear.]
Finally sharing this vlog from my California Cheese Crawl experience with Real California Milk/California Milk Advisory Board!
It was three awesome days filled with glorious cheese, but more importantly, it was nice to learn about all the sustainability efforts being taken by these companies.
From methane digesters that converts waste to electricity, to treatment ponds that clean discarded water for irrigation, it’s quite an eye-opening experience! We were received by all the companies with such enthusiasm and warmth, it really made the entire experience go beyond anything I was expecting.
Here are the locations mentioned in the video by order of appearance:
San Francisco Ferry Building-
Fiscalini Cheese Company, Modesto-
Hilmar Cheese Company, Hilmar-
Dewz Restaurant, Modesto
Gott's Roadside, St. Helena
Culinary Institute of America at Greystone
Louis M Martini Winery, Napa Valley-
Harvest Table, Napa Valley
Valley Ford Cheese, Sonoma County-
Mazarine Coffee, Union Square
Trader Joe's, Union Square
PS. I would like to thank the California Milk Advisory Board for this unforgettable experience, and also beshie Pepe Samson ( for making the trip even more fun! ❤️
#california #napavalley #travelvlog
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Achadinha Cheese Goat Dairy
Achadinha Cheese Company, located in Petaluma, CA, produces an array of farmstead goat cheeses, including Capricious, an aged cheese that won Best in Show at the American Cheese Society event in 2002 and was named one of Saveurs 50 favorite cheeses in the United States in 2005. The goats in this video provide the raw material for their award winning cheeses.
SHEANA DAVIS EXCLUSIVE, host of the recent Sonoma Valley Stay Local event
SHEANA DAVIS has a lot of interesting things to talk about; her cheese brand, her upcoming store opening in Boyes Hot Springs north of Sonoma and recent uses for her goods and services. She was the organizer of the stay local event. Thanks for al your hard work Sheana! Reach her and her products at
by Robert O'Maoilriain CSW
Sonoma Wine and Food Critic and Certified Sommelier of Wine
aka Sonoma Sommelier Wine and Food Review.
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Sonoma County BEST for Business - Jennifer Bice
The first in a series of videos showcasing why Sonoma County is the best place for business. This video features the perspective of Jennifer Bice, President & CEO of Redwood Hill Farm and Creamery, one of the many successful businesses located in Sonoma County.
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