Stefan Blicker can thank the state of Alaska for getting him into wine.
âI was tending bar at the Crowâs Nest (in Anchorage, Alaska) and the sommelier quit,â recalled Blicker.
âI volunteered and the maître dâ took me under his wing. That first night I was decanting a 3 liter of 1970 Mouton Rothschild tableside,â complete with candle, apron and tastevin tasting cup.
âI was totally hooked,â he said. âFrom there I went on to retail and . then into the online side of things in 2000.â
Today Blicker is the co-owner, Last Bottle Wines/First Bottle/Invino.com of Napa.
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Sylvia Macrae Moir, a former chief of police in Arizona and California, will lead Napa Police while the city looks for the next permanent head of local law enforcement.
The City Council unanimously approved the 55-year-old Moir as acting police chief at its meeting late Tuesday afternoon. Moir, the first woman and first openly gay person selected for the role in Napa, will replace Robert Plummer, who was the cityâs first Black police chief and retired Jan. 1 after a 2 ½-year tenure.
Although police chiefs normally are chosen by the city manager, California law pushed Moirâs temporary appointment into council hands because she draws a pension from her time leading El Cerrito Police, where she spent six years before her 2016 hiring as police chief in Tempe, Arizona, a Phoenix suburb of 187,000 people. Moir resigned her Tempe post in October.
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In the latest Wine of the Week, critic Esther Mobley recommends a hyper-food-friendly California Gruner Veltliner
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Wine of the Week
, a new series in which Chronicle wine critic Esther Mobley recommends a delicious bottle that you should be drinking right now. Last week, she highlighted a radiant sparkling rosé
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Napa Valley wineries love to tout their wine’s ability to pair well with food. But unless your diet consists mostly of steak, Napa Valley’s signature wine, Cabernet Sauvignon, is not actually very versatile at the table.
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Is this Ted Cruz s French Laundry moment ? Senator draws scorn for Cancun trip as Texans froze in deadly storm
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Sen Ted Cruz, R-Tx., in Washington, D.C. on February 12, 2021. Cruz invited a torrent of scorn on social media in recent days after Twitter users resurfaced a tweet he wrote last year mocking California’s electricity woes.Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images
Sen. Ted Cruz flew to Mexico for a family vacation while millions of Texans were left without power in freezing temperatures, according to multiple reports.
And it didn’t take long for the internet to juxtapose some of the senator’s tweets from last year, in which he castigated California Democrats for their apparent indifference to their constituents’ suffering.