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Pull up a chair, can I get you anything? How about a glass of wine?

Since moving to California, I learned to love wine. However, since moving to California, I've also learned to be thrifty, as it is ery expensive to live here. And thus began my quest to find the best wine for cheap!

Vino Della Casa 2009 Table Wine

Two things caught my eye about this wine as I hastily glanced around the Berkeley Bowl West Wine section last grocery shop: type and price. I love the idea of table wine, and this was one of the cheaper wines in the section. My laden basket did not allow for much perusal and I had already hit my budget limit for the trip, so I grabbed Vino Della Casa and ran. Much to my surprise, what I picked turned out to be much better than I expected.

The Trappist Bar: Beer Education

I originally came from the chilly Pacific Northwest, land of a thousand micro-brews. Sadly though, for far too much of that time I was too young to partake of the truly awesome beer extravaganza before it became too "mainstream". Despite growing up in such fertile beer country, I didn't really learn to love a cold frosty one until venturing into the magical time machine that is Oakland's Trappist Beer Bar.