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March 2018

Spotlight Series: TWO SHEPHERDS

March 9, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Spinster Sisters are thrilled to announce the lineup for our Spring 2018 Spotlight Series! We’re having some friends over to pour for you this spring. Come meet, chat, and sip with a few of our favorite local winemakers! No tickets, no prix-fixe, and everything is poured by the glass and half-glass, so you can stop by for a drink and a snack, or go all out with a sampling of our small plates and pairings.

Mark these Friday nights on your calendar and give us a call for reservations!


Two Shepherds started originally as a garagiste, then a one man micro winery, committed to making old world style wines that express vintage and place. William often jokes there aren’t two shepherds, but actually half shepherd, as in addition to making a multitude of small lots, doing all production, he has a full time “day job” that funds the winery and its growth.

ownersIn 2015 William was joined by his partner Karen Daenen, a wine industry veteran, and head of consumer research for a multi-brand winery, as they moved into their own production facility in Windsor.

Two Shepherds specializes in Rhone varieties (e.g. Grenache Blanc, Mourvèdre, Roussanne,) from cool climate vineyards and unique plantings, made with minimal intervention. Use of native yeast, no additions other than minimal S02, neutral barrel fermentation and aging, whole cluster, and unfined, unfiltered production are core philosophies of Two Shepherds.logo

Two Shepherds was named as a Top Ten Hot Brand by Wine Business Monthly in 2012, and profiled in Jon Bonné’s book, The New California Wine: A Guide to the Producers and Wines Behind a Revolution in Taste. In 2017 Two Shepherds was also featured in a 66 page book by the San Francisco Chronicle as top 50 wineries to visit in Napa & Sonoma, as well as cover photo for Sonoma Syrah article, and dubbed 2017 San Francisco Chronicle: Rhone Style Rockstars

 


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Spotlight Series: March 30th – RYME CELLARS

March 30, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Spinster Sisters are thrilled to announce the lineup for our Spring 2018 Spotlight Series! We’re having some friends over to pour for you this spring. Come meet, chat, and sip with a few of our favorite local winemakers! No tickets, no prix-fixe, and everything is poured by the glass and half-glass, so you can stop by for a drink and a snack, or go all out with a sampling of our small plates and pairings.
Mark these Friday nights on your calendar and give us a call for reservations!

Ryme Cellars is a collaboration of husband and wife with old world sensibilities, as well as admiration for California’s terroir and sunny disposition. Our portfolio of wines has grown gradually and organically since 2007, beginning with a single ton of Aglianico. The varieties may be rare or unusual but none of them are a mere curiosity for us. Rather, they represent wines that we love, drink often, and truly believe in the potential for success in their chosen sites.

We love wines with distinctive character. They should taste great on their own, but really shine alongside good food. We love wines with ample tannin and acidity, especially if they are expected to age. We always value a great wine’s idiosyncrasies over a polished supple sameness that is so common in the wine world.

 We are not driven by any theme necessarily. Most of our wines are made from Italian varieties simply because of the great diversity and unique character of the wines of that culture. While Cabernet, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay have certainly excelled here in California, the supremacy of the so-called “noble” varieties is not absolute. They need not be the only game in town. We don’t believe they are the most noble, only the most popular.

Our wines come from conscientiously farmed organic or sustainable vineyards. They are produced according to simple methods. The wines are always encouraged, never controlled. We use no cultured yeast, no temperature control, no enzymes or other adulterants. We do not fine or filter. The wines are raised in used French oak barriques between 2 and 10 years old. Many of the reds are fermented on the stems. Many of the whites are fermented on the skins.

From time to time, we have different interpretations of a wine’s true identity, in which case, we will maintain separate projects. Such is the case with the “His” and “Hers” Vermentino. “Hers” pressed, settled clean, and bottled early. “His” picked later, destemmed, fermented on skins, and aged longer.


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April 2018

Spotlight Series: April 6th – UNTURNED STONE PRODUCTIONS

April 6, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Spinster Sisters are thrilled to announce the lineup for our Spring 2018 Spotlight Series! We’re having some friends over to pour for you this spring. Come meet, chat, and sip with a few of our favorite local winemakers! No tickets, no prix-fixe, and everything is poured by the glass and half-glass, so you can stop by for a drink and a snack, or go all out with a sampling of our small plates and pairings.
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Unturned Stone Productions

Founded in 2010 by Erin Mitchell and Randy Czech, we are a wine production company dedicated to making delicious, natural wine in California. We are firm believers in the idea of non-interventionist winemaking and use intuition, pragmatism and a dash of whimsy to bring our wine to your table.

We source only organically farmed grapes. All our ferments occur naturally and we do no additions or subtractions in the winery other than minimal sulfur as needed.   We believe good wine makes itself and see ourselves simply as custodians to the process.   Our goal is to make wines that are friendly, easy and express the laidback attitude of Sonoma County.


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Andrea Kendall – Artist Reception April 10th 5-7pm

April 9, 2018 - June 4, 2018

Andrea Kendall

“The process of painting excites me as a visual recording of experience, where layers of the process are not all apparent, but influence the final result just as much as that which is obvious. This allows the viewer to bring their own interpretations and history to the work, broadening the picture beyond the frame.

I work with oil paint in reactive and unplanned approach, using methods such as pouring, spraying and blow-drying to create the composition. My process is driven by the interaction of layers as they build and the visual history that is recorded, disguised, re-revealed and merged to create the final result.

Recent work includes oil on wood panel and oil on canvas with embroidery elements. The work is composed of atmospheric and organic forms but are altogether abstract, creating a dialog with the viewer that is entirely subjective.”

Andrea Kendall graduated from UC Davis with a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art in 2001. She lives in Sonoma County.

 

 

An Artist’s reception will be held at The Spinster Sisters on April 10th from 5 to 7 pm.

 

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Spotlight Series: April 27th – CAMPOVIDA

April 27, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Spinster Sisters are thrilled to announce the lineup for our Spring 2018 Spotlight Series!
We’re having some friends over to pour for you this spring. Come meet, chat, and sip with a few of our favorite local winemakers! No tickets, no prix-fixe, and everything is poured by the glass and half-glass, so you can stop by for a drink and a snack, or go all out with a sampling of our small plates and pairings.
Mark these Friday nights on your calendar and give us a call for reservations!

“If there were a phrase that would define Campovida’s winemaking program, it would be ‘without compromise’. The primary goal of this program is to craft world-class wines grown exclusively in Mendocino County, so we put special attention to the growers we partner with because as we all know, it all starts in the vineyard. Quality and not quantity is the key ingredient as our lots range from 50 to 300 cases, allowing the winemaking team to truly focus on each individual lot with care.

Campovida’s winemaking program focuses on showcasing Mendocino County fruit exclusively. We source our grapes from different sub appellations within Mendocino County such as Yorkville Highlands, Redwood Valley, Potter Valley and Mendocino AVA. We search for specific grape varietals that excel at each particular appellation and terroir, giving us flexibility in the amount of wines that we can produce.”


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May 2018

Spotlight Series: May 4th – SHADY OAK BARREL HOUSE

May 4, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Spinster Sisters,
Come meet, chat, and sip with a bunch of our favorite local winemakers (and one brewer!) this spring and summer. There are no tickets, no prix-fixe, and everything is poured by the glass and half-glass, so you can stop by for a drink and a snack, or go all out with a sampling of our small plates and pairings.

Shady Oak Barrel House is our only beer brewer in the Spotlight this spring, Steve Doty, is making some incredibly delicious, complex, food-friendly sour beer in Santa Rosa.

“My main focus will be on beers made with the wild yeast, Brettanomyces, as well as other bacteria that are used to bring acidity to a beer.  The aromatics from these beers create a delightful earthy and funky bouquet, that no traditional yeast ever could.  Most of these will demand a long maturation process in wood barrels, to create a complex sour beer.  The majority of production is packaged in bottles where it undergoes another fermentation to create another layer of complexity.  Other offerings will utilize unique hop varietals, and even include the natural bounty of fruits and herbs from Sonoma County.  These are the beers that I cannot get enough of, and thus will be making an ever changing lineup of different offerings.”

 


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An Evening with Author Isaac Butler

May 8, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
The Astro Motel, 323 Santa Rosa Ave
Santa Rosa, 95404 United States
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On May 8, join Isaac Butler, author of “The World Only Spins Forward” for a book reading at The Astro! The book is a riveting, inspiring (and often very funny) oral history of the ascent of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” drawing from over 250 interviews with artists involved with what is widely considered one of the most important works in the American Theatre. This event is not one to be missed. Seating is limited so please head on over to our page or Eventbrite page and register. The event will be free of charge and refreshments will be available.
Books will also be available for sale on premise at the time of the event.


 

The oral history of Angels in America, as told by the artists who created it and the audiences forever changed by it–a moving account of the AIDS era, essential queer history, and an exuberant backstage tale.

When Tony Kushner’s Angels in America hit Broadway in 1993, it won the Pulitzer Prize, swept the Tonys, launched a score of major careers, and changed the way gay lives were represented in popular culture. Mike Nichols’s 2003 HBO adaptation starring Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, and Mary-Louise Parker was itself a tour de force, winning Golden Globes and eleven Emmys, and introducing the play to an even wider public. This generation-defining classic continues to shock, move, and inspire viewers worldwide.

Now, on the 25th anniversary of that Broadway premiere, Isaac Butler and Dan Kois offer the definitive account of Angels in America in the most fitting way possible: through oral history, the vibrant conversation and debate of actors (including Streep, Parker, Nathan Lane, and Jeffrey Wright), directors, producers, crew, and Kushner himself. Their intimate storytelling reveals the on- and offstage turmoil of the play’s birth–a hard-won miracle beset by artistic roadblocks, technical disasters, and disputes both legal and creative. And historians and critics help to situate the play in the arc of American culture, from the staunch activism of the AIDS crisis through civil rights triumphs to our current era, whose politics are a dark echo of the Reagan ’80s.

Expanded from a popular Slate cover story and built from nearly 250 interviews, The World Only Spins Forward is both a rollicking theater saga and an uplifting testament to one of the great works of American art of the past century, from its gritty San Francisco premiere to its starry, much-anticipated Broadway revival in 2018.

Dan Kois is an editor and writer for Slate‘s culture section and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He’s the former culture editor at Slate, where he launched the Slate Book Review. He previously co-hosted the podcast Mom and Dad Are Fighting and is a frequent guest on Slate‘s Culture Gabfest. His previous book was Facing Future, about the Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, and his next book is How to Be a Family, a memoir of parenting around the world.

Isaac Butler is a writer and theater director, most recently of The Trump Card, a meditation on the peculiar rise of Donald Trump with the solo performer Mike Daisey. Butler also wrote and directed Real Enemies, a collaboration with the composer Darcy James Argue and the video artist Peter Nigrini, which was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and named one of the top ten live events of 2015 by the New York Times. He holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Minnesota, and his writing has appeared in the GuardianSlateAmerican Theatre, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.

 

 

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Spring Spotlight Series: May 18th – HOBO WINE COMPANY

May 18, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Come meet, chat, and sip with a bunch of our favorite local winemakers (and one brewer!) this spring and summer. There are no tickets, no prix-fixe, and everything is poured by the glass and half-glass, so you can stop by for a drink and a snack, or go all out with a sampling of our small plates and pairings.

 

The Hobo Wine Company is a family owned and operated winery located in Santa Rosa’s Roseland Neighborhood. Since 2002, they have been crafting small, fun lots of wine from well-tended vineyards throughout California’s North and Central Coasts.

 


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June 2018

Spring Spotlight Series: UNTI VINEYARDS

June 1, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Come meet, chat, and sip with a bunch of our favorite local winemakers (and one brewer!) this spring and summer. There are no tickets, no prix-fixe, and everything is poured by the glass and half-glass, so you can stop by for a drink and a snack, or go all out with a sampling of our small plates and pairings.


Unti Vineyards is a small, family-owned and operated winery specializing in Mediterranean varietal wines with vineyard personality. The winery, established in 1997, produces small lots of estate grown Barbera, Grenache, Montepulciano, Sangiovese, Syrah and Zinfandel. We also produce a dry Rose from Grenache and Mourvedre and a White Blend of Vermentino, Grenache Blanc and Picpoul. We use artisan wine making methods to enhance and support our ability to make wines with a sense of place-such as fermenting and aging 45 to 60 different small batches of wine each year, using whole clusters in our Rhone varietal ferments, using a variety of fermenting and aging vessels including stainless steel, concrete tanks, large french oak ovals and small french oak barrels.

As obsessive wine fanatics, we believe the worlds best wine grapes come from vineyards where the vines are naturally adapted to their environment. This includes planting several varieties that heretofore have not been grown in the Dry Creek Valley, but are prominently planted in Southern Europe. We have been farming our vineyards organically since 2003, in an attempt to facilitate self sustaining vines without the use of herbicides and pesticides. We also apply organic compost according to the list of soil preparations prescribed by Rudolf Steiner.


Make your reservations for JUNE 1ST
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Sara Downing JOY 2.0

June 5, 2018 - August 12, 2018
The Spinster Sisters, 401 South A Street
Santa Rosa,
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Artist Reception Tuesday, June 5th 5-7 PM

Sara Downing is a self taught American photographic artist. With visual artist parents, her work often reflects painterly and abstract forms. Much of Sara’s work over the last decade has been steeped in landscapes, portraiture and architecture. Her full-time artistic career began only recently, after Sara’s first large solo show at the Barlow in nearby Sebastopol in 2017. With the tremendous success of that first show, and a desire to finally answer a call she found impossible to ignore, she made the leap to quit her job and started her own business. That first show was, in her words;

-cathartic at best, I wanted to show many different facets on what brings me joy. This first exhibit was an
opportunity to show the breadth of that joy with freedom from a rigid theme.

With this next exhibit however, Downing travels deeper into one facet of her interest. focusing primarily on small, textural microcosms distilled from the often-labeled mundane. With intricate shadows and angular perspectives, Downing reveals the unexpected artistry and grace of a world hidden in plain sight.

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