"O Yelpers, I am sending you this chariot of lovely, well-priced bottles
for after dinner. Amid the company may it be a sweet goad
for your drinking companions, for the fruit of Dionysos,
and for your Californian drinking cups,
when fellow Yelper's wearisome cares vanish
from their breasts, and on a sea of golden wealth
we all alike sail to an illusory shore..."
Pindar, fragment 124 ab, as translated by Jenna P.
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i was turned onto vintage berkeley by a friend several months ago, and have not turned back. this is definitively the *best* place to buy wine in the east bay. a relatively new addition to the gourmet ghetto, it is also the least pretentious. and, as my friend Natashka has pointed out, all the guys who run this operation are *most* helpful.
the only thing i'd still love to see would be those super cheap, unlabeled bottles you can get at at Nicolas in Paris or London... read more
