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Sam Folsom retweeted
The latest casualty of California's constricting premium-wine market: Gundlach Bundschu, the oldest family-run winery in the state. Gun Bun will remain open, and hopes to continue its famed music program, but the business filed for Chapter 11 today:
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Sam Folsom retweeted
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@SFGate, the largest media site in Calif., is once again HIRING! Looking for:
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Sam Folsom retweeted
Papapietro Perry Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 22 is our Beverage of the Week. Papapietro Perry specializes in Pinot Noir, offering several single-vineyard selections, but this 2022 multi-vineyard blend from the Sonoma Coast is gorgeous... icont.ac/517Sj
Sam Folsom retweeted
This was an Amazing, Elevated experience in #Sonoma... Hamel Winery... everyone should schedule a tasting there
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Sam Folsom retweeted
Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths.
And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.
Sam Folsom retweeted
Banning mRNA vaccines because some people have side effects is like saying we should ban electricity and go back to candlelight because some people get electrocuted
Sam Folsom retweeted
For our latest Sonoma Tasting Report, Staff Writer & Taster Courtney Humiston visited John Hamel of Hamel Family Wines at his Nun's Canyon Vineyard on Moon Mountain, where he has been working to achieve balance, resiliency and site-expressive minerality through biodynamic and dry-farming practices.
His efforts are clear in the Hamel Family Wines Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma County Moon Mountain District Nun's Canyon Vineyard 2021. It’s a highly structured, intriguing wine that is intense yet buoyant, with vivid minerality and flavors of bright red fruit, hibiscus and rose tea. Most of the Hamel Family Wines Bordeaux-style bottlings are remarkably mineral-driven, reflecting the rock from which they came. Read more here: jamessuckling.com/wine-tasti…
Sam Folsom retweeted
From Soil to Glass: John Hamel’s Vision for Pure, Precise Wines at Hamel Family Wines grape-experiences.com/2025/0…
The ultimate "What could go wrong?"
Meta buys a nuclear power plant (more or less) | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/me…
Interesting booze news...
RNDC, the country’s second-largest wine-and-spirits distributor, will withdraw from the Golden State entirely at the beginning of September. vinepair.com/booze-news/rndc…
Sam Folsom retweeted
This is both an epic troll as well as a genius ad to make sure Canadians don’t completely boycott the United States.
Newsom: “Sure, you-know-who is trying to stir things up back in DC, but don't let that ruin your vacation plans.”
Sam Folsom retweeted
Understand that the most important concession these cowardly law firms are making is unstated:
They will not represent any clients challenging government policy or abuse of power while Trump is president.
And thus abdicating a basic function of lawyers in a democracy.
Sam Folsom retweeted
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
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Sam Folsom retweeted
The stock market is down but at least everything is more expensive and services are getting shittier. On the other hand we have more measles. To be fair, they are finally delivering the reductions in FAA and National Parks staff that people have been demanding.
Sam Folsom retweeted
Powerful speech about Trump’s betrayal of the democratic world.
My question watching this — where is the American version? Why hasn’t US’s own opposition to Trump been able to speak out with such clarity and force?
Tempus fugit.
