There will be wine, Dim Sum, pairings of the two, music, lucky red envelopes, fortune cookies, and a Traditional Lion Dance with live music at 4PM (if it is not raining).

 Other highlights include Dim Sum Charlie’s vintage Airstream food cart which will be setting up camp in our parking lot East of the building to offer Chinese food.

 Wines by the glass available too with SPECIALS for WINE CLUB MEMBERS!

 Come down and check it out. Think Pinot Noir and Sui Mai or unoaked Chardonnay and shrimp dumplings. As always, enjoy the turntable and kick back on our new midcentury furniture.

5% of all proceeds will be donated to the Redwood Empire Chinese Association.

Downtown Wine is the tasting room and home base for the wines and projects of Gary Branham and Kenny Likitprakong. Gary’s Branham Estate Wines and Kenny’s Hobo Wine Company, Banyan Wines, and Folk Machine are poured side by side.

“Chinese New Year is a two week spring festival celebrated for over 5,000 years in China. According to legend, the Lord Buddha called all the animals to him before he departed from earth. Only twelve animals came and as a reward, he named a year after each of them in the order that they arrived: the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Hare, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Boar. The Year of the Dragon, which begins January 23, will bring spending and lavish plans. Business will be good and money can be generated or obtained easily, but it will be wise not to overestimate ourselves in this combustible year.”  Theodora Lau, Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes

Have a great Holiday season!

Downtown wine holiday hours are:

Christmas eve: 11am-5pm
Christmas day: Closed
December 26th: 11am-5pm

New Years Eve: 11am-7pm
New Years Day: Closed

Come join us for a holiday glass of wine, pick any wine for $8 a glass.

We are participating in the Wine’d Up event this Sunday.

Use your Wine Club membership at Downtown Wine  (or any participating downtown winery) to receive discounts all day long.

We will offer %15 off all purchases plus just $1 shipping on cases and a…

Holiday 6 pack Deal!
Regularly priced at $165  Deal Price $140!

2009 Hobo Treborce Zinfandel
2010 Folk Machine Three Cememonies
2009 Make Work Wine Company The Pan
2006 Branham Jazz
2007 Branham Jazz
2008 Branham Jazz

Have you tried the Folk Machine Jeanne D’ Arc White Wine 100% Chenin Blanc???

Chewy…with good Character? You decide…

Read the review below written by Fred Swan at NorCal Wines.

Jeanne D\’ Arc Wine Review

Tuesdays in the Plaza 2011 Concert Series is coming to an end with just two great shows left.
Downtown Wine Tasting Lounge opens its door from 4:00-7:00 Tuesday nights to add to the ambiance of the warm comfortable nights. Pick up a bottle of your favorite Branham Estate or Hobo Wine Companies Banyan or Folk Machine clean chilled White, tasty lean Folk Machine Central Coast Pinot Noir, or our rugged full bodied Branham Rockpile Zinfandel. We also carry the perfect glass for the occasion GOVINO classy and unbreakable!

8/23 Stompy Jones/Swing

Stompy Jones on YouTube

8/30 Charlie Musselwhite/Blues-Harp Legend

Charlie Musselwhite on YouTube

We’ve been busy the last few weeks in the tasting room, but our efforts were well worth it. Thanks to all the folks who came out for Food & Wine Affair, our 2nd anniversary party, and Healdsburg’s Black Friday. A few people even made it to all three events.

If there is a wine drinking season, I guess we are in it. No better way to enjoy the season and the holidays than with friends and family and no better way to enjoy friends and family than with a nice bottle of wine. Stop by and let us help you make this happen.

We have some new wines and of course, the old favorites. Tis the Season!

Help us celebrate our 2nd Year Anniversary with Free Tasting the entire week of November 8-14th. Open from 11 AM to 7 PM on Saturday, November 13th, we will celebrate with:

*Live music from DJ Max Wordlow playing an all vinyl set of rare funk, soul, jazz and hip hop

*Complimentary Tastings the entire week of November 8th – 15th including flights of 5 Rockpile wines

*New art on the walls by Michele Weitzenburg

*Food

*20% off all wine purchases

*30% for Wine Club members -even if you join that day

*Free shipping for  (wine) Christmas presents to your friends

*PLUS random t-shirt giveaways!

Come over and join the fun.

Check out the San Francisco Chronicle’s review of Downtown Wine on August 20, 2010

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/20/TR6L1EOQC5.DTL

2008 Branham Napa Valley “Petite” Rosé

2008 Branham Russian River Valley Chardonnay

2008 Branham Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

2007 Branham Rockpile Zinfandel

2009 Banyan Monterey County Gewurztraminer

2009 Banyan Madera Viognier

2009 Folk Machine Jeanne D”Arc California White Wine

2008 Hobo Branham Rockpile Vineyard Zinfandel

That’s right, every third weekend of the month through May (events excluded), we will be having a RENT PARTY. Free tastings all weekend and 20% off any 3-bottle purchase. In trying to be true to the 1920s spirit of the skiffle, we’ll also be spinning all the Jazz and Blues on the turntable that we have.