San Francisco to host a variety of food and drink events this week

San Francisco's original, all-pinot noir bacchanalia returns to Farallon for its 21st rip-roaring year. The extensive tasting of pinot noir from over 50 of Oregon and California's finest producers — plus a very special "Pinot Noir Pop-Up" from our winemaking friends in New Zealand — features sumptuous hors d'oeuvres to complement the wines and an opportunity to meet the winemakers.

Join us for an afternoon of sipping 95-plus-point-rated wines from Napa, Sonoma, Paso Robles and beyond. The beauty of the SF Vintners Estates is we bring award-winning, super small production wineries to one location in San Francisco. Many of these wineries are allocation only, not available to the public, and have ridiculously good 95-plus-point-rated wines from "Wine Enthusiast," "Wine Spectator," James Suckling and Robert Parker. Many of the winemakers will be here pouring for you, and you can buy your favorites to take home or have shipped.

In this workshop, you can look forward to a fun, hands-on session going over everything you ever wanted to know about using and maintaining a wild-yeast, naturally fermented sourdough starter. By learning the techniques used by artisan bakers, you’ll get peak performance from your starter and will learn how to prepare it for baking all your favorites, like pizza and traditional rustic loaves. In this two-hour workshop, we’ll look at all the angles to feeding and maintaining a sourdough starter and use it to make a yummy sourdough flatbread in class. You’ll go home with your own starter, as well as the knowledge and confidence to use it to bake your own sourdough bread at home.