Get Yer Txakoli On.
Get Yer Txakoli On.
October 15th, 2010 by Jeff Segal
Thursday, October 21st, from 5:30pm until 9:30pm we are going to have a party. A kick-ass party. To be more specific, a Txakoli party.
Txakoli is a white wine from the Basque region of Spain. It’s pretty damn hip these days (it’s a known fact that hipsters adore Txakoli), but for good reason. It’s the opposite of most of the crap white wine people are drinking these days – it’s fizzy, low in alcohol, super high in acidity and doesn’t even know what oak is. And we want to make Txakoli even cooler, so we’re organizing a party around it.
Here’s the deal. We’re going to pour three awesome Txakolis by the glass all night, as well as offer a tasting flight of them for just $5, and you’ll get your $5 back if you buy a bottle of any of them. In addition, we’ll also be pouring two crazy (as in insane) Basque ciders by the glass, and they’ll be in the tasting, too.
We’re also going to be doing a 100% Basque menu, so get excited for things like this:
And, the most fun part…in the Basque region, they have a very cool way of pouring wine. See below. Anyway, we are going to have a pouring contest, where you will get to splash wine and cider all over our floor. And the winner will get a prize. Oh, and speaking of prizes, the first people in the door for the event will get free cider glasses and pouring vessels. It’s Christmas morning two months early.
See you there.
Love,
Heart
Louis/Dressner + Good F-ing Wine @ Heart
September 30th, 2010 by Jeff Segal
Dear minions,
Next Thursday, October 7th, is an event that we at Heart are very excited about. From 6:30pm until 9:30pm, wine importers/rock stars Joe Dressner and Denyse Louis, of Louis/Dressner Selections (http://louisdressner.com), will be in the house, along with Farm Wine Imports, their California distributor, as we pour through eight of their most interesting wines.
It will cost $5 to taste through all eight wines, which is, to be honest, the best deal ever, and if you buy a bottle of any of the wines either to drink here or to take home, we’ll waive the tasting fee anyway.
These are the beautiful wines that we will be pouring:
- 2008 Coquelet Chiroubles Vieilles Vignes
- 2007 De Moor Bourgogne Chitry
- 2008 Puzelat La Tesniere Touraine
- 2009 Puzelat KO Rose
- 2009 Puzelat Pinot Meunier
- 2009 Donati Malvasia dell’Emilia Frizzante
- 2007 Bera Ronco Malo Barbera d’Asti
- 2006 Maremma Massa Vecchia Rosato
OK, we’ll see you there. No reservations necessary. Just show up. Try to smile.
Love,
Heart
Heartoberfest!
September 22nd, 2010 by Jeff Segal
This Saturday, September 25th, we’re devoting an entire day to:
HEARTOBERFEST.
From 11:00am to 11:00pm, we’ll be serving up mad local sausages, wine and beer. Oh, and pickled fish and sauerkraut and joy. And, with any luck, some funny outfits. Please bring yours, as well.
Look for homemade beer sausages fresh from some local meat rock stars, German brews, and a smorgasbord of German wines. Riesling(s), of course, but also Muller-Thürgau, Portugieser and others. At phantastisch prices.
No reservations necessary, no entry fees, no bullshit. Just bring your appetite, maybe some Pepto Bismol, and your liver.
Liebe,
Heart
Der Teufel steckt im Detail.
September 8th, 2010 by Jeff Segal
Hallo:
Saturday, September 25th.
Sausages (numerous), herring, sauerkraut, beer wenches, beers (numerous), Muller-Thurgau, Spatburgunder, other grapes with weird names…and Riesling. Lots of Riesling.
Save the date. Dank.
Candy apples and razor blades.
September 8th, 2010 by Jeff Segal
Candy apples and razor blades, little dead are soon in graves, I remember Halloween.
We think you’re going to want to join us for Halloween. If you can. All we’re giving you for now is the below morsel. Better start planning that costume, cuz.
Wine For Our Natural Wine PARTAY.
August 24th, 2010 by Jeff Segal
Yo,
So, below are the six wines that we’ll be pouring during our Natural Wine Week blowout partay on Friday, August 27th, from 7:00pm-11:00pm. Each will be paired to a set of music in half-hour segments, and while that wine is being featured, it will be 50% off by the glass!
Check it:
- 2008 Thierry Puzelat La Tesniere Touraine
- 2009 Christian Venier Gris Gourlaouen Rose
- 2006 Julien Courtois Originel
- 2009 Mouressipe Cacous
- 2007 Occhipinti Nero d’Avola Sicilia Siccagno
- 2006 Paolo Bea San Valentino Umbria Rosso
Unfortunately, we’ll be keeping the music pairings to ourselves. But you’ll get to hear them soon enough.
Love,
Heart
Heart, and new glasses…
July 28th, 2010 by Jeff Segal
We just wanted to quickly let y’all know that Heart has finally abandoned its beloved mason jars…
…for new (improved) mason jars! We are now using mason jars made by Bormioli Rocco, an Italian glass maker that dates back to 1825. The jars (see below) are based off the figure of the Roman Amphora, the original wine vessel. Their Amphora-like shape allows both the wine (and beer/cider/sake) to breath and you to easily stick your muzzle in there for a sniff. And they’re still cool as hell, equally as adept at raucous, alcohol-fueled gatherings as at romantic (communal) trysts or family dinners.
Come drink.
Making Natural Wine Fun Again: A Party
July 26th, 2010 by Jeff Segal
August 27th from 7:00pm until 11:00pm.
As part of San Francisco Natural Wine Week, the week that celebrates America’s best natural wine locale.
Heart presents -
MAKING NATURAL WINE FUN AGAIN: A PARTY.
A night of revelry loosely organized around natural wine.
For one night, forget cultured yeasts, SO2 counts, horses, volatile acidity and navel-gazing wing nuts.
We at Heart are throwing a party celebrating the fact that natural wines taste better and make us feel better about devoting our lives to a beverage.
Kid Gorgeous will throw down mad beats all night in 30-minute segments, each paired to a different natural wine that we’ll be highlighting. When the music is playing, the wine it’s paired to will be flowing like water, at industrial plonk-like prices. When the music stops, get a new glass.
We’ll also have a bunch of natural food (naturally) floating around to pair up with the wine of the moment. Oh, and puppets. That’s right, puppets.
The music & wine pairings will remain top secret for now. But expect them to be life-changing.
See you there.
Love,
Heart
Wine(s) by the jar.
July 15th, 2010 by Jeff Segal
Our current glass list, in case you’re interested…
Focused
These are Heart’s by the glass picks of the moment.
Sherry (for grandma)
The David Foster Wallace of the wine world. Brilliant but misunderstood.
La Cigarrera Manzanilla – $7 Like drinking the sea. But better.
Gutierrez Colosia Elcano Fino – $7 Cate Blanchett elegance at a Jamie Lee Curtis price.
El Maestro Sierra Fino – $10 Saltier than Evelyn Waugh.
El Maestro Sierra Amontillado – $13 Maldon, almonds, ham, smoke, butterscotch and sex.
Gutierrez Colosia Sangre y Trabajadero Oloroso – $9 Nuttier than Nick Nolte.
Sake
Sake is so damn good. It makes everything better. Put it in your mouth (an original Heart haiku).
Tentaka Hawk in the Heavens Junmai – $13 Mushroom, Truffle, Earthy Funkiness.
Kasum Shiboritate Namazake Genshu – $14 Nuts, Apples, Watermelon Seed.
Ohyama Tokubetsu Junmai Nigori – $8 Cotton Candy, Rosemary, Served On the Rocks.
Bubbles + outsiders
Serious fun.
2009 Puzelat KO Rose – $9 A striking French woman that hasn’t showered since her berry picking expedition.
2009 Bisson Ciliegiolo Rose – $11 A serious as shit (amazing) rose. Call it blush and get smacked.
2009 Trabanco Cosecha Propia Cider - $5 How ‘bout them apples? Drink this all day.
2007 Fremont Brut Cider Par Nature Les Greniers – $9 Smells like a horse farm, tastes like (funky) perfection.
German Gilabert Brut Cava – $9 Champagne – Snobbery = Cava.
2008 Pinon Vouvray Brut Non Dose – $12 Smoke, minerals and fizz.
2008 La Grange Tiphaine Nouveau Nez – $12 I am on a 24 hour Chenin Blanc diet.
2009 Andrea Calek Blonde Petillant – $14 Appley soul wine made by a mohawked French badass in a trailer.
Philippe Bornard Tant Mieux Ploussard Petillant Rose – $14 Absurdly good. The ultimate desert island wine.
HM Borges 5-year Madeira – $9 Can kick the shit out of $100 ports with its eyes closed.
White
From bestdealever to crazyassmofo.
2008 Closerie des Lys Blanc – $6 Our unbelievably good (and cheap) house white.
2006 Branger Muscadet Terroir les Gras Mouton – $8 Proof that Muscadet ages like George Clooney.
2007 Salomon Sal’mon Steinterrassen Riesling – $12 For the kids that tried to eat rocks.
2007 St. Pauls Pinot Bianco Exclusiv Ploetzner – $10 An ideal matrimony of tropical fruit, minerals and body.
2008 Valli Unite Bianchino – $9 Veuve Clicquot sans bubbles.
2008 Ferrando Erbaluce di Caluso La Torrazza – $11 Someone. Please. Help. Us. Stop. Smelling. This. Wine.
2007 Tournelle Terre de Gryphees Chardonnay – $12 The Jura’s version of white Burgundy. Astonishing.
2008 Puzelat La Tesniere Touraine – $12 Christmas as a wine. Pine needles, honey, gingerbread and apple pie.
2008 DeMorgenzon Chenin Blanc – $14 Charlize Theron beauty, J. M. Coetzee intellect, Nelson Mandela power.
2007 Coenobium Rusticum Lazio Bianco – $16 A crazy orange wine made by Cistercian Nuns.
Red
From Bota juice to liquid ether.
2005 Tarantas Tempranillo/Cabernet Crianza – $6 The kind of wine you could drink from dusk ‘till dawn.
2009 Tournelle L’Uva Arbosiana Ploussard – $11 A summer red if there ever was one. Utterly charming.
2007 Garrey Mercurey Vieilles Vignes – $14 Ever wonder why red Burgundy ruins lives and dashes fortunes?
2009 Clos du Tue-Boeuf Cheverny Rouge – $9 Village Burgundy meets Village Beaujolais. Chaos ensues.
2008 Tavijn Ruche di Castagnole – $12 Maybe the most floral wine ever. Like red Gewürztraminer.
2007 Occhipinti Frappato – $15 Sour cherry, raspberry, stone, peat moss, Earl Gray, salt and basement.
2008 Alta Maria Santa Maria Valley Pinot Noir – $14 Smokey The Bear’s least-favorite wine.
2008 Darnaud Crozes-Hermitage Mise en Bouche – $12 Real Syrah – black pepper, smoked meat and violets.
2005 Le P’Tit Paysan Monterey County Meritage – $12 If Steinbeck drank wine aboard Rocinante, it’d be this.
2006 Guttarolo Primitivo Murge – $16 If BP sold this wine, we’d still buy it. Zinfandel par excellence.
RamenFest 2010!
June 24th, 2010 by Jeff Segal
June 29: We turn Japanese with Hapa Ramen
hapa ramen @ heart
tuesday, june 29, 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Love ramen? So do we. Sadly, there’s no good ramen in San Francisco. Well, until now. For one night only, San Francisco’s Hapa Ramen will be hustling its bowls of gold from our 24th & Valencia street pop-up Ramen house.
We’re still busy crafting the perfect menu, but think miso, pork and sea vegetables with a smattering of izakaya-style Japanese food (which will also be on the menu, provided by ours truly, Kitchenette).
Oh, and we’re bringing in sake. Lots of sake. Really good sake. And, of course, we’ll have plenty of legit wine and beer, too.
The ramenparty will be first-come, first-serve, so it may help to get here on the early side. But if shit gets crazy (those of you who attended our Street Food event know what we’re talking about), we’ll have plenty of alcohol to keep you smiling.
See you then.
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