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St. Francis Winery and Vineyards has launched a new contest to find the perfect recipe that pairs your grilled creation with their wine. Oh – but there’s a catch. You have to upload a video talking about yourself and why you are a grilling god who pairs the BBQ with the Barbera (the Pulled Pork [...]

This weekend brings back the second-ever Freestone Fermentation Festival, a celebration of all things fermented As the official announcement tells us: The festival presents the perfect situation to mingle with Master Fermenters of every kind gathered to share their wares and wisdom. Festival goers can graze on a wide variety of fermented foods to their [...]

A friend of this blog has tipped us off to a great new contest with the environment in mind. The event, dubbed the “350 Garden Challenge,” is a countywide effort to create awareness of the value of community and residential gardens that save water and grow food. Organizers of the contest—a nonprofit group called Sonoma [...]

With a growing number of wineries in the Dry Creek Valley embracing the wonders of biodynamic farming, an eco-conscious tour outfitter based in Petaluma recently unveiled a five-hour wine tour that pays special homage to this Earth-friendly way of operating business. The company, Pure Luxury, dubs the new offering its “Eco Wine Tour.” OK, it’s [...]

I almost burst my zubaz with excitement when I saw that the nifty pants worn by the Norwegian curling team (motto: “Stop calling us the Danish curling team”) at the Canadian Winter Olympics (motto: “Stop calling us the Athens Summer Olympics of Winter”) were from Sonoma County’s own Loudmouth Golf, a company which I have [...]

As you may have heard, or will now, Hardy Wallace of the Really-Goode Job fame has finished his stint at Murphy-Goode winery. Rather than return to Waffle House Atlanta he has opted to stay here in Sonoma County and work for not one but two different wineries. According to the local news-paper of record, the [...]

Say do you remember, Dancing in September? If you don’t remember that line, you will when you check out the headliners for this year’s Sonoma Jazz Plus (or Sonoma Jazz + if you must): Earth, Wind and Fire. Granted, they are playing on May 22, 2010 at 9pm. But even in September, you will be [...]

As the year ends, a speed wrap-up of 2009 here Inside Sonoma. It won’t be accurate. It will be entertaining: January 2009 January dawned anew and afresh, with adjectives astrewn about. We were getting a new president and historic things were happening. To commemerate, IS took on such august topics as ugly dogs, the fiddle festival [...]

Recently, according to the thoughtful and colorful emails in our inbox, there was some sort of hub-bub about stars and angels in these fair parts. Because Inside Sonoma is not affiliated with any government (wait – is zinfandel a government? No? Okay then that statement stands) we were blissfully unaware of what exactly had transpired. [...]

Chad Dunbar, we salute you. Not only did we geek out at your Halloween light display, but your Christmas extravaganza of light and sound makes it look like the entire Trans-Siberian Orchestra is jamming on your front lawn. Well-played. Rather than reinvent an itinerary for Holiday lights, we’re just going to say – check out [...]