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Matcha Green Tea Shake

1 tablespoon matcha powder
1 tablespoon honey
1 cup milk
handful of ice

Blend and over-analyze everything for the rest of the day.

Noe Valley Wine Merchants = solid wine shop. Excellent selections and wine tasting all day on Saturday. Stuff from the Jura, variety of dry roses, Gru Vs, etc. Check them out.

Staff “spiritual” tasting at Nopa

Tea service with Yasmin at Imperial Tea Court in the Ferry building.

Students on the bus to Sonoma County

Iron Horse winemaker David Munksgard demonstrates how to open sparkling wine.

Quality control…

Taking tasting notes on different Iron Horse sparkling blends

Absinthe service

Practice makes perfect… In theory.

If there are two things we have a lot of at the apartment right now it’s pineapple and open bottles of Italian wine. Therefore, I have created a special wine cooler as an ode to my funky roomate Simi (who is frantically working on her Capstone project at the moment).

Get our your fancy, weird wine glass that you only use when the good ones have run out at a party. You know the one I’m talking about. Fill it with ice (crushed ice might be nice!)

To a shaker full of ice, add:

• 3 oz of Arneis (or whatever Italian white you have open)
• 1 oz of fresh pineapple juice
• 3/4 oz of Meyer lemon juice (standard lemon would be fine, too)
• 3/4 oz of Tito’s vodka (or your preferred local option)
• 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
• a dash of Angostura bitters
• a splash of honey simple syrup (regular simply syrup would be fine)

Shake it. Strain into the prepared glass and float Izze clementine soda on top. Garnish with a pineapple wedge and hand over to your buddy with the rest of the bottle of Arneis. And maybe some other snacks for her cram sesh.

Dalla Terra’s portfolio on display at owner Brian Larky’s Cinco de Mayo fiesta for visiting Italian exporters. Imagine me in charge of pouring this.

My roomate requested a drink to help her unwind from a stressful interview. This is what I came up with:

Escape from Yountville Fizz

• 2 oz gin (I used 209 Gin)
• 3/4 oz Lillet
• juice of one white grapefruit (about 1 1/2 oz)
• two dashes of grapefruit bitters
• tonic water

Combine the first four ingredients in a shaker over ice and shake for about 10 seconds. Strain into a lowball glass filled with ice and float tonic water on top. Then go watch Modern Family or something.