March 13, 2006

Fill Her Up with Some Red, Please

A friend told me about this winery called Obester in Half Moon Bay, CA., that will fill an empty wine bottle for you for under $10. In all the time I've lived here (Seven years, I think) I've never heard of this winery. Maybe that's because it's in Half Moon Bay, a quaint little seaside hamlet about 20 miles south of San Francisco that has a cracker pumpkin festival but isn't exactly known as a mecca of fine wine. Nonetheless, bottle filling is a cool idea and the winery, which crafts wines from grapes grown in the coastal hills above Santa Clara Valley, has a large picnic area and bocce courts if you want to make a morning or afternoon of it. Here's some more information about the next bottle event, which will be held April 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Obester, which makes reds, whites and sparkling wines and offers whites all priced under $20, will be pouring red that day.
Price per bottle of red (Information on the type of red isn't available yet) includes the cork and label and are as follows:
$4.45 for 750 ml, $8 for 1.5 L, $17 for 4L and just $18.50 for a gallon if you are really filling it up, but hopefully aren't planning on driving home.
The winery's website tells you how to clean your bottles before you fill them. You can also buy 750 ml bottles from Obester for $1 each. One note: don't even try to clean the inside of your bottles in the dishwasher.

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