I'm writing to you from a new place. We just moved into a temporary sublet, here for a spell until we can settle somewhere permanently again. My daughters have been remarkably resilient with everything, despite the instability and disrupted routines. While driving them here for the first time a couple days ago, my seven-year-old said. "I hope my room has a window" which I found to be a sweet and curious concern. I assured her there would be windows. Suddenly aware that the phone lines of the universe were potentially open, her little sister, Simone (who just turned five), chimed in with her tiny request: "I just hope they'll have Ketchup there".

We all have our wishlists I suppose. A well-stocked kitchen. Good water pressure. Maybe our priorities and preferences differ, but I enjoy thinking of us all connected in having our thing. All of us quietly seeking out such singular delights, or perhaps - even better - seeking unique shared enjoyments, together. I’ve had lifelong friendships sparked from a common appreciation for a ridiculous yet perfect pop song, or a mutual quest for the best chocolate chip cookie in the city. Absurd outings to secure the best bagels, or the perfect slice of pizza or that one taco spot with the open fire and a trompo. A favorite booth. A great jukebox. The perfect light from library windows. The view from the top of hill. The lemonade at that old corner cafe.

At Oakland Yard, we like to say that we have something for everyone, but ultimately what we really hope to convey is that we’re doing our best to make that possible. And we hope to be that special space for you, where some secret delights await. And now more than ever, with spring in full bloom, there are more opportunities for some spark, for unique joys, with all kinds of new delights popping up here this month! After a short spring break, Welcome Wednesdays have returned - and our weekly tastings and weekend programming continues too, with local winemakers, guest chefs, and new pop-ups here in the days, weeks, and months ahead... starting with Plus One sharing tasty treats here on Wednesday evening, April 16th and Megan Hughes of Loella Wines pouring her new lineup at OAKLAND YARD on Saturday afternoon, April 19th! Follow us on IG and stay tuned via newsletter for more details on more weekly pop-ups and tastings... and our vendor lineup for our next Artisan Market & Back Lot party here next month! 

But first, TONIGHT... Thursday Night Flights... We'll be pouring Pais (aka Mission, Listan Negro) from Chile and Canary Islands for our Red Flights and all Italian White Flights!
2022 Linaje del Pago Rojo Carmin Tinto
2022 Pedro Parra Vinista Pais (Itata)
2024 Huasa de Pilen Alto Vino Tinto Chileno
2023 Ercole Bianco Monferrato
2019 Taschlerhof Kerner
2023 Angiolino Maule La Biancara Masieri Bianco 
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass from around the globe all day until close!

SATURDAY FLIGHTS: Wines of Spain... two Albariños and two reds from La Rioja!
2023 Lagar Pedregales 'La Floracion" Rias Baixas Albariño 
2023 CUW Desconcierto Rias Baixas Albariño
2023 Bodegas de Mateo 'La Mateo' Rioja
2016 Señorio de Peciña Rioja Reserva 
Flights $18 from 2-6 and wines by the glass all day until 9pm


Cheers,

Daniel

Every day, in big and little ways, our actions irrevocably change the world. This is what I call living! And with hindsight it becomes history. Today, we’ll make moves, planned and spontaneous, that will affect our collective future. For example, on April 3rd, 1973, Martin Cooper, while working for Motorola, made the first mobile phone call from downtown Manhattan to Bell Labs in New Jersey. The first work call. You might call it progress.

Also on April 3rd, but in 1968, the day before he was killed, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the ‘Mountaintop Speech’ in Memphis, in which he spoke of Americans’ power as consumers, urging citizens to make their voices heard by what they chose to purchase, or forgo.

In that speech, he also said, ‘...if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy." Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.’

Dr. King continued, ‘All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper." If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say, we aren't going to let dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on.’

May we all be as brave and wise as the King of Love in our daily actions, build strength in our communities to thrive and celebrate amid the inevitable confusion. History will lay the facts bare, incontrovertible, tomorrow, and the next day, and the next...

TONIGHT...THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS: Portuguese Whites and Beaujolais
2023 Vignobles Bulliat Bibine Beaujolais-Villages
2023 Jean-Paul Dubost Beaujolais Lantignié
2022 Chateau Javernand Gatilles Chiroubles
2022 Filipa Pato Dinamica Vinho Branco
2023 Casa de Mouraz Dão Branco
2019 Anta de Cima Argilla Branco
Tasting Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until close!

SATURDAY 4/5: ORANGE WINES from around the world - Taste four, organic, skin-macerated white wines - AKA ‘amber’ or ‘skin contact’ whites - from Oregon, Sicily, Spain, and Chile.
2022 Johan Vineyards Maceration White
2023 COS Rami Bianco Terre Siciliane
2022 Rosalia Molina 4 Pisos Amber 1L
2024 Louis-Antoine Luyt Carrizal Pipeño Blanco
Tasting Flights $18 from 2-6 and wines by the glass until 9pm!


With love and solidarity,
Max

My little Simone turns 5 on Saturday. A "Covid baby", born late March 2020 as the world sheltered in place. I never figured the universe could possibly be any darker just five years on, yet here we are. But she brings us much light - and to most in her orbit - sensitive and silly and empathetic in nature, a generally happy jellybean. She and her older sister have adapted to their new school, learning all kinds of new concepts and considerations, and new words. "Dad, what is a bee-yawch?", my first grader asked the other day with genuine innocence and curiosity.

Max and Julia hosted staff earlier this month and one of the guests brought a massive telescope to stargaze on the roof above the shop. I felt like a curious kid again, bewildered to see the clarity of distant planets and their orbiting moons. I was introduced to new words that night too, when I asked what the dense, bright cluster of "something" was that I was viewing. That's a stellar nursery Mark explained, and I've not been able to get those words out my head. The juxtaposition of infancy and infinity is just too much for my head and heart to process, or to feel anything but delight and awe about.

Looking around at staff that night, and thinking of the shop and this space, this community, the town and beyond... a simple search and the metaphor comes quickly into focus. Stellar nurseries are the ecosystems within galaxies where stars are formed... born, living... eventually releasing their enriched materials back to the nursery, the process crucial for the creation of future generations of stars and celestial bodies.

With further reading, it is noted that within nurseries, gravity plays a crucial role. We hope the gravitational pull continues for spaces like this in this town. The social hubs, the gathering spaces, the stellar nurseries. These dynamic ecosystems that foster growth, and welcome into existence the expansive lights and warm energies of this community, and create space for the many many bright stars among us, impossible to count.

Come shine with us this weekend - and in the weeks and months ahead!  We'll be hosting new stars and highlighting new talents, local winemakers and chefs popping up and sharing their creations with the community here. Check out our events calendar or follow our Instagram to stay in the loop (or rather, in our orbit:).

This SATURDAY 3/29: Special guest winemakers Bill Cassata & Lane Harper pouring their stellar new releases of WILLIAM LANE wines, including:
2022 William Lane California Frappato / Nero d'Avola  
2022 William Lane High Valley Nero d'Avola
2022 William Lane Mendocino Carignano
2023 William Lane Alder Springs Vermentino
Tasting Flights from 2-6 and wines by the glass until 9pm!

But first TONIGHT... THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS: Australian reds and Austrian whites
2023 Unico Zelo Fresh AF
2021 SC Pannell Field Street Shiraz
2022 Chalmers Mother Block Red Blend
2023 Weingut Stix Gruner Veltliner 1L
2023 Heidi Schrock Gelber Muskateller
2023 Brundlmayer Kamptaler Terrassen Riesling
Tasting Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until close!

Infinitely yours,

Daniel

Four score and seven years ago, America was just five years out of Prohibition. You’ve probably heard about it, the thirteen year period during which the United States outlawed the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. Interestingly, consumption remained legal, albeit difficult to accomplish. The 18th amendment took three years to go from a congressional proposal to implementation, and the destruction of the legal alcohol industry brought job losses and a decline in tax revenue for the government. From the beginning, most Americans were not having it - or rather they were not not having it - leading to an increase in organized crime and political corruption, and a thriving black market.

Seven days ago, our fickle and fearless chief executive proposed a 200% tariff on European alcoholic beverages to be implemented on April 2nd. It’s not Prohibition, but it will again upend our entire industry. If this goes forth, a wine you bought for $15 this week will cost around $50 next month. Only the foolhardy or very rich will ship, purchase, or drink a drop of ethyl alcohol from Europe. Our importers and distributors have been sending impassioned emails, imploring us to contact our congressional representatives in an attempt to change their fate. Those who have not suspended shipments altogether are facing the impossibility of paying the impending duties. I have written Alex, Adam and Lateefah, but it is unlikely they have the president’s ear.

Sixteen months and seven years ago, we opened Oakland Yard, a wine store and tasting bar with an emphasis on building community and a focus on sustainably farmed European wines made in classic styles. The wines we buy and sell reflect thousands of years of agricultural history and represent unique flavors, aromas and textures of specific terroir. Just as France will never produce Bourbon, Virginia cannot make Champagne. Are we not cutting off our noses to spite our faces? Wouldn’t it be nice to continue to share the bounties of our respective corners of the world? What will become of my many friends who rely on the European wine trade to make their living? So many questions...

In the meantime, we’ll continue to feature our favorite European wines while we still can, and if anyone knows a boatwright, we’re looking to build a stealth fleet of refrigerated vessels for...um...personal use.

TONIGHT...THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS: FRENCH WINES - Dégustez trois blancs ou trois rouges du pays de liberté, égalité, et fraternité.
2023 Domaine Gadais Muscadet Navineaux Amphibolite
2020 Philippe Viallet Savoie Blanc
2023 Domaine de la Verpaille Mâcon-Villages Vieilles Vignes 2022 Domaine Yohan Lardy Poppy Gamay
2022 Clos Constantin Unitat Terasses du Larzac Rouge 2020 Domaine de Brin Amphore Gaillac Rouge
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SATURDAY 3/22: ITALIAN WINE FLIGHTS - Assaggia quattro vini favolosi dalla Repubblica democratica, fondata sul lavoro.
2022 Al-Cantara Occhi di Ciumi Etna Bianco
2023 La Biancara Angiolino Maule Masieri Bianco
2023 Alois Lageder Schiava
2022 La Stoppa Trebbiolo Rosso
Flights $18 from 2-6pm and wines by the glass until 9pm


With love and anxiety,
Max

Sorry for the delay today. I was at Kaiser for many unexpected hours. About 30 minutes into one waiting room session, an outrageously loud alarm sounded. It startled everyone. "Not that one!" a voice on the intercom warned a colleague, away from the microphone, "That's for lockdown".  A brief silence followed with everyone around me noticeably shaken. Before our brains could compute much, a lower decibel alert sounded again - a new voice followed, calmer, but not at all confident. "If someone, uh, left their dog in their car in the lot, it's, um, jumped out the window and is wandering around outside...".

A older woman in a purple puffy jacket quickly stood up. "Aw, Jeezus!" she yelped, and walked to another area. I couldn't tell if she was concerned about the dog or annoyed that the alarm was for that information. "Whose dog is it??" another man barked, looking around. "I think it’s for the whole place, not just our room", a woman suggested. "Well how many dogs ARE loose??", puffy jacket lady desperately inquired, not really making much sense.

The air was tense for a bit, some folks had not processed all the information, others were just wondering why things had escalated to that point, or at all. And then the intercom voice came back on with a final brushstroke of absurdity. "Hi again. An update: the dog is in main reception. So, if you're the owner, uh… I think your dog is looking for you...".

I intended to write about other things today. To tell you about Kristie Tacey of TESSIER winery, pouring her amazing wines and spinning some records here this Saturday! (Maybe a tie-in story about a surprise guest... that can wait for another time). But I left Kaiser thinking about the state of the world, the curious microcosm of the waiting room. Everyone there with some urgent need, a certain gravity to their individual situations. And I'm still thinking about the random dog that brought a few of us ailing strangers together for a couple minutes, some of us knowing we understood each other in some simple way, with no words spoken. 

We implore you to join us and to join the many interesting, kind, like-minded and like-hearted folks here. Come stop in for a flight or a glass and discover new delights, experience new joys, and embrace the feeling of community here. And yes, if any level of escape is needed from the latest news cycle, stop in and stay a while. We are here for you, today, this weekend, and beyond.... with good music, friendly faces, wine, bread, tacos and more.


TONIGHT: Thursday Night Flights... German Whites and Sicilian Reds!
2023 Von Winning Sauvignon Blanc II
2021 Kaiserstuhl Königschaffhausen Blanc de Noirs
2023 Hexamer Quarzit Riesling
2021 Due Terre Nivuru Terre Siciliane Rosso
2021 FUSO CALA Rosso Nero d’Avola Dario Serrentino
2023 Funaro Nero d’Avola
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until close!

SATURDAY 3/15: KRISTIE TACEY pours TESSIER WINERY flights here a the bar!
2023 Tessier Electric Ladyland
2021 Tessier Skin Fermented Zabala Chardonnay
2023 Tessier Day Dreaming Red Blend
2021 Tessier Santa Cruz Mountains Saveria Pinot Noir
Flights $20 from 2-6 and wines by the glass until 9pm!

ALSO Saturday... ED'S BREAD POP UP returns from 2-5pm with artisan breads including sourdough wheat-rye, sourdough flaxseed-wheat, sourdough black sesame togarashi - as well as sweet and savory pastries, scones, and cookies!


Cheers,
Daniel

When I pause to think, I have much to be thankful for, and lately, I’ve felt especially appreciative of my coworkers at Oakland Yard. Daniel and I have always felt lucky to have attracted such a motley crew of wine zealots, and it’s not a stretch to say our staff feels like family to us. I dearly love my wife and dog and business partners, but I rely on all of our staff members to keep Oakland Yard thriving, and they consistently deliver the support we need and practice their own versions of that genuine type of hospitality which feeds all our souls and hearts and stomachs.

Not only is our Oakland Yard staff reliable and thoughtful, they’re also well-informed and they get really excited about wine, which keeps me interested after all these years ;-) We know each others’ favorite bottles, know who among us enjoys a little volatile acidity in their reds, or who likes a little new oak, and we know who can’t abide by even a whiff of mouse on the finish. We don’t always agree but we have a good sense of where we’re all coming from, and when I select wines for the shop, I buy the wines we like to drink and sell, with all of us in mind.

Daniel and I have each had some difficult days in the last few years, times when it feels hard to show up right for the world, to carry on focused and smiling, but when I walk into Oakland Yard, I’m always met with warmth and understanding. Unless I’m opening the shop myself, in which case I may need to play the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack straight away. Thank you Claire, Erica, Bibi, Chris, Francis, Gabrielle, Natsumi, Sarah and Pablo for all that you do here !!!

Oakland Yard is CLOSING EARLY at 5:30 this Sunday 3/9 so that we may celebrate another year together at our annual staff party with food, music, laughter and wine.

TONIGHT...THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS: Eastern European wines - Sample three reds or three whites from Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
2023 Edgar Brutler Sefu White 1L - ROMANIA
2021 Guerila Vipavska Dolina Rebula - SLOVENIA
2022 Piquentum Malvazija Istarska - CROATIA
2023 Edgar Brutler Sefu Red 1L - ROMANIA
2021 Zlatan Bilo Idro Plavac - CROATIA
2022 Skegro Krs Crni Blatina - BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SATURDAY 3/8: Rhône River Valley Flights - Taste four classic Rhône wines - two reds and two whites - made from Clairette, Bourboulenc, Roussanne, Marsanne, Grenache Blanc, Grenache Noir, Syrah, Carignan, Cinsault, and Mourvèdre
2023 Domaine de la Graveirette Ju de Vie Blanc
2021 Domaine des Louis Crozes Hermitage Blanc
2023 Brunier Le Pigeoulet Vaucluse Rouge
2022 Domaine Sylvain Badel Si le Vin Syrah
Flights $18 from 2-6pm and wines by the glass until 9pm


Gratefully,

Max

I met Tony Danza at a Dodgers game when I was 9. For no particular reason beyond recognizing him as the star of "Who's the Boss?", my friend Jeff and I walked over to his seat and asked for his autograph. He was friendly, boisterous, laughed a lot. He signed our tickets and said "You kids stay out of trouble!", wagging a finger laughing to his buddy, a cue that the interaction was over. "Say no to drugs!" his friend added, elbowing Tony, both of them really getting a kick out of that, still laughing as we walked away. I only figured out why the joke was kind of funny 20 years later.

I really don't have any big celebrity heroes, so there's not much to ruin for me should any chance encounter occur. But I've met or been in close proximity to more than a few. I've helped David Byrne pick out wines for his birthday, I was in a bar bathroom with Shane McGowan, who peed all over the center of the floor, as natural as rain. I used to live in west Sonoma and would see Tom Waits around. He was always perfectly Tom Waits, even in a Whole Foods parking lot, his body like some crooked tree, scratching his head, unable to remember where he parked, a shopping cart filled solely with 4 gallons of milk.

I wasn't familiar enough with her wines to call her a hero (yet), but meeting winemaker, Arianna Occhipinti, was very memorable. Max invited me to a tasting when we worked together in New York, and in a sea of sport coats and booklets and lanyards and glasses (and yes, mostly men), a young 22 year old Sicilian winemaker held court in jeans and a hoodie, putting questions on hold for cigarette breaks... she was brilliant, passionate, and the wines were astoundingly vibrant. Arianna spoke about her desire to make wines that were pure expressions of the terroir of Vittoria, where she farms native Sicilian grape varieties (and olives for their tiny production oil!) and produces these beguiling wines. She follows biodynamic and natural farming practices and is dedicated to the principles of minimal intervention, using only native yeast for fermentation. 

While our celebrity hero, Arianna, will not be here in person, the amazing Alyssa Papiernik of Farm Wines (importers of Occhipinti wines) will be here - sharing these delicious wines and information about this harvest and these dynamic bottles! Come taste and experience the indescribable character of these amazing wines, this Saturday from 2-6pm! No need for autographs, Arianna's signature is in each bottle. 

SATURDAY 2/29: Alyssa Papiernik of Farm Wine Imports is pouring Occhipinti Flights! (with a couple special surprises too:)
2023 SP68 Bianco
2023 SP68 Rosso
2023 Frappato
Flights from 2-6 and wines by the glass from around the globe until 9!

TONIGHT: Thursday Night Flights! Loire Valley Cabernet Franc and Spanish Whites...
2023 Sebastien David Hurluberlu St Nicolas de Bourgueil
2021 Les Athlètes du Vin Chinon
2019 Domaine de Nerleux Saumur Champigny Rouge
2022 Nuria Renom Lil Blanco
2023 Fermi Bohigas Xarel-lo
NV Brincadeiro Naturalmente Turbio
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until close!


Cheers,

Daniel

In our newsletter last week, Daniel mused about the ‘singular dispositions’ of his daughters, and appreciated the ‘unique weirdos’ that make up the larger world. He and I share a delight in difference, a desire to learn from others new ways to see and to be. We appreciate the variety of cultural activities, regional artistic and culinary traditions, which, taken together, inform what makes us wholly human.

David Hasselhof’s national anthem, which I heard at the US Open in 2001, bears little resemblance to the Woodstock wails of Jimi Hendrix, but each, one could argue, has their merits. I’ve played the cello for nearly five decades, focusing many of those years on the unaccompanied suites by JS Bach, and lately, I’ve been indulging a great and surprising joy made possible by the unnecessary mess of technology we’ve accumulated. Without an enormous library of LPs, most of us can now listen to the most famous cellists of all time play the Bach suites side by side. Teachers incarnate - Pablo Casals, Yo-Yo Ma, Mstislav Rostropovitch - each expressing so differently a clear sequence of notes on the page. I’ve long been captivated by the ethereal Sarabande of the fifth suite in C Minor, an eerie slow dance of deconstructed chords, pulled apart and reattached in beautifully unlikely places. Comparing the masters’ renderings is fascinating - the effortless, lyrical beauty of Casals, the technical, sensitive thoughtful approach of Ma, and the sinister intensity conjured by Rostropovich - all refer back to the same simple lines laid down around 1720 by JS Bach.

Every Thursday at Oakland Yard, we perform a similar ritual, comparing wines made from a particular region or a single grape variety, comparing traits, characteristics, attributes and idiosyncrasies in an effort to better define what they have in common - in this case, a place or a basic raw material. This week, we’ll sample three reds from Tuscany made by three different women from the Sangiovese grape. Simona Ruggeri at Villa Sant’Anna, Dora Forsoni from Poderi Sanguineto, and Carla Visconti of Castello dell’Abate have varying approaches to and expressions of Sangiovese, and tasting them together may just get us a little closer to understanding this famous variety.

TONIGHT...THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS: Oregon whites and Tuscan Sangiovese - Taste three whites from the Willamette & Applegate Valleys & three reds from Montalcino & Chianti.
2021 Villa Sant Anna Chianti Colli Senesi
2022 Poderi Sanguineto IGT Toscana Sangiovese
2022 Castello dell’Abate Rosso di Montalcino
2023 Liska Heceta White
2023 Kelley Fox Nerthus
2023 Iruai Moonstones Chenin Blanc
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SATURDAY 2/22: SPANISH FLIGHTS - Taste four new wines from Rías Baixas, Gran Canaria, Asturias, and Penedès.
2023 Pedregales La Floración Albariño
2023 Envinate Benje Blanco
2020 Dominio del Urogallo Cangas La Fanfarria Tinto
2023 Alvaro Palacios Camins del Priorat
Flights $18 from 2-6pm and wines by the glass until 9pm
ALSO Saturday... ED'S BREAD POP UP returns fro 1-5pm with artisan breads including sourdough wheat-rye, sourdough flaxseed-wheat, sourdough black sesame togarashi - as well as sweet and savory pastries, scones, and cookies!


Appreciatively,

Max

PS - The great Jacqueline Dupré recorded only the first and second suites, so her C minor Sarabande is sadly unavailable to the modern listener.

Apart from developing a common inclination to ignore most of my requests, my daughters are very different beings. Case in point, we're in the car yesterday and Simone, my generally more compassionate 4 year old, is looking out through the rain and wonders aloud, to no one in particular: I hope Santa's OK in the North Pole today. (Followed my a legitimate sigh). Several moments later, the older and perhaps less empathetic one breaks a long silence: Hey, Dad, when we die, are there still, like, sweets and stuff? Then adding, to no one in particular: There better be. 

Turns out they both like the rain though, in their own way, and even seem to get along better when its wet out - a welcome surprise. As my little ones grow, I'm constantly reminded of their singular dispositions. I'm also nudged to consider the ways in which all of us humans are unique weirdos in general. And I write about it a lot, but I'm continually delighted to find that something as simple and absurd and magical and delicious as a bottle of wine can bring such uniquely different sorts of folks together. Maybe for some the connection is a band or a book, or a sports team, or the Simpsons. Maybe for others it's an affinity for fly fishing or for some silly holiday. Perhaps it's the noble quest for a perfect chocolate chip cookie.

Whatever it is for you, and whatever the weather has you feeling this week, we're happy to be on this rainy car ride beside you. We hope to continue to connect in whatever ways we can. Stop in this week and see if our new favorite bottles might be your new favorites too. We've got flights tonight and Saturday and wines by the glass all day, everyday. Special Valentines bubbly BTG Friday too! Roll in... the music will be good, the wines (and tacos:) will be delicious, the vibes warm and welcoming. Maybe even some sweet treats for our Valentines.

TONIGHT: Thursday Night Flights... Italian Whites and Domestic Reds
2022 Villata Roero Arneis
2022 De Fermo Concreto Bianco
2021 Capolino Perlingieri Vento Greco
2022 Folk Tree Pinot Noir
2023 Las Jaras Glou Glou 
2022 Folk Machine Valdiguié 
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until close!

Saturday: Wines of AUSTRIA!
2022 Nikolaihof Hefeabzug Gruner Veltliner
2023 Umathum Burgenland Rosa
2022 Johannes Trapl Uni6
2021 KOLFOK All the Universe Together Red
Flights $18 from 2-6 and wines by the glass until 9pm


Be Mine,

Daniel

To Rain

What a comfort to wake indoors to the noise of rain;
A balm - a billion sounds from all directions with velocity
Like the buzz of bees, or rustling leaves, or Rice Crispies.
Hushed and fluctuating, drops strike
Then join to drain from roof to street to bay,

Insistent taps on panes with shifting wind;
Falling pops in surging waves, while tires send
Soft, long thrums, whooshes from the road,
Dopplers hissing east to west and west to east.

Sun’s partner, a prism, the antidote to thirst,
Sputtering, swelling, streaming down ravines,
Smelling of petrichor - of sacred blood on stone -
The scent of growth and safety in this elemental land.
 

Brave the rain this evening - smell the rain, hear the rain, feel the rain !!! And come join us for Thursday Night Flights from 5 to 9pm tonight. There’s more precipitation in the forecast for this Wednesday the twelfth, but don’t let that stop you from coming out for an extra special Welcome Wednesday on 2/12 from 5 to 8pm with guest chef and importer Eric Danch of Danch & Granger. Eric will be serving up a delectable Eastern European cabbage soup (with optional meat) and pouring some fabulous Hungarian wines. And this Saturday looks to be clear skies for our Tuscan tasting flights this Saturday 2/8 from 2 to 6pm.

TONIGHT...THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS: Garnatxa & Chardonnay - Three Genache-based reds from Spain and three Chardonnays from France, California & South Africa.
2022 Domaine Grivot-Goisot Côtes d'Auxerre Bourgogne Blanc
2022 Luuma Chardonnay
2023 Ntsiki Biyela Aslina Chardonnay
2022 4 Monos Vinos de Madrid G10 Garnacha
2023 Vendrell Sere Montsant
2018 Cal Grau Badaceli Priorat
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SATURDAY 2/8: Tuscan Wine Flights - Two reds and two whites from the land of olives, wine and cypress trees (with an average of thirty-five inches of annual rainfall.)
2022 Sagona Primi Passi Bianco Toscana
2022 Alessandro Tofanari SASSA Toscana Bianco
2022 Vegni e Medaglini Maremma Toscana Ciliegiolo
2022 Ampeleia Un Litro
Flights $20 from 2-6pm and wines by the glass until 9pm


Gratefully,

Max

I did't quit my day job, as the saying goes, but close friends know that I write songs occasionally. One early song I wrote in my 20s was called "Sydney Says", a reference to Sydney Omarr, longtime astrologer for the LA times whose column I read as a teen (and probably too long after). My parents kept a box of random things from my youth in their home here in a closet downstairs. Rummaging through I’ll find forgotten cassette recordings of silly songs like that one, many old photos and some love letters, and a surprising amount of horoscopes, mostly from birthdays, clipped out and filed away.

The song I wrote pokes fun at myself for belief in any such thing... each verse gets progressively worse for the narrator, starting with a flat tire, then losing a job, and later his cat in a breakup. In the last verses his house burns down. But the chorus all along is ironic, happy and hopeful, with an uplifting Sydney says it’s gonna be OK! Sydney says it’s going to be a great day!… Sydney says I’m gonna find true love by May (or something like that).

That song suggests I knew by 25 that I was ridiculous looking to the heavens for answers, but I guess I’ve never totally let that go, still some seeds from my religious uprearing when my young heart was growing. But when the improbable happens and buildings actually burn - and when the world at large seems to be on fire in so many other ways, it’s hard not to look for any glimmer of hope, any positive message or sign of some divine direction amid the chaos.

Maybe it's absurd, but I'll take anything these days. And so, in Trader Joes, thinking of Sydney Omarr this week, Dionne Warwick started playing overhead, and I broke down a little. She too spent many years promoting similar stretches, with her Psychic Friends Network long ago. And while know she and Sydney and many others offer no practical guidance… her message reached me, through the Trader Joes speakers, even if the lyrics were someone else's words:

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No not just for some but for everyone...


It's gonna be OK.

All love,
Daniel

Tonight: THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS...Merlot & Sauvignon Blanc
2023 Isa Wines Don’t Quit Your Day Job Merlot
2022 Château Beynat Abracadabra Merlot
2016 Château Moulin Canon-Fronsac
2023 Hacienda La Lomita Sauvignon Blanc
2023 Von Winning Sauvignon Blanc II
2023 Domaine de Reuilly Les Pierres Plates Reuilly Blanc
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SATURDAY 2/1: Wines of Chile
2023 Bodegas Etchart Cafayate Torrontés
2024 Louis-Antoine Luyt Carrizal Pipeño Blanco
2023 Viña Maitia Aupa Pipeño Tinto
2024 Louis-Antoine Luyt Pilen Alto Pais
Flights $18 from 2-6 and wines by the glass until close

Thanks to all who came out this week for Yuji Ishikata, our guest chef for Welcome Wednesdays, our comfort food pop-up series. Welcome Wednesdays continue next week, stay tuned via IG for details and offerings :)

Hurtling through space at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, around a mass of earth, rock and water, spinning at a thousand miles per hour, held fast by gravity; these are our basic conditions and the vast motion in which we build our lives. But we do not sense these forces. We feel still while we fly, in circles upon circles, across the universe. Somehow, the repetition of waking and living wears away the wonder with which we are born, and we come to see the world as a fixed thing we understand. But it is not, and our lives are steeped in uncertainty. Such variability doesn’t sit well with most minds, so we carry out our business and manage our affairs with a willful blindness to the strangeness and precarity of it all, and occasionally something will come along to remind us there's more to life than we’ve allowed ourselves to believe.

We brought Ocho wines to Oakland Yard from the Republic of Georgia to help poke holes in our constructed reality. The Ocho folks write: “In Georgian mythology, Ocho is the protector of forests and wild animals. On our labels, you see precious animals of Georgians fauna that are at risk of extinction. While drinking our wine made in an archaic way and looking at these mysterious animals you wonder who you are and why you are here. The wine is made in a kvevri, or clay pitcher, according to the ancient Georgian traditional method, with the involvement of solely natural yeasts in the fermentation.” The wines have playful names with serious implications, an enigmatic turbidity, and flavors of orchard fruit, leather, and uncertain tea that have a timeless quality reflective of Georgia’s eight thousand year history of wine production. We’ve got five new Ocho wines waiting to rock your world - come taste four this Saturday at Oakland Yard.

Also, this Wednesday 1/29 from 5 to 8pm, special guest chef and dear friend Yuji Ishikata will host our Welcome Wednesday comfort food pop-up series - stay tuned on instagram to learn Yuji’s soup of the week.

But first, TONIGHT...THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS:
2024 Folk Machine White Light
2023 Orixe Sotelo Nebola White
2023 Cary Q ViBES! Picpoul Blanc
2023 Fond Cyprès Premier Jus Corbières Rouge
2023 Sebastien David Hurluberlu St Nicolas de Bourgueil 2022 Château de Javernand Les Gatilles Chiroubles
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SATURDAY 1/25: Ocho Georgian Wine Flights -
Ocho is a project begun by friends in 2022 to create approachable Georgian wines with zero additions from organic and biodynamic vineyards in Kakheti and Kartli.
2022 Ocho Do u believe? Mtsvane
2022 Ocho Why r u here? Rkatsiteli
2022 Ocho Do you wonder? Tavkveri
2022 Ocho Who do u love? Saperavi
Flights $20 from 2-6pm and wines by the glass until 9pm!


With love and wonder,
Max

2025 has just begun and my heart aches as fires rage in LA. It is an ominous start to an undoubtedly challenging new year, but Oakland Yard has made me ever more certain that community is the way through even the most difficult times.

Community is a word that gets thrown around a lot and the imprecision can hollow out the meaning. But community is central to our lives, and when I think about what it means to us at Oakland Yard, I start with our customers. You come in day after day, not just to buy a bottle but often to bring stories or evidence of your latest culinary feats, the news of your lives, or to have a glass and a chat before you go. I also think about our team, each person who makes Oakland Yard not only a site of transaction but also connection. I think about the group of artists and craftspeople who have helped us mark so many occasions with our signature outdoor market party, celebrating the long summer days, the first warmth of spring, and our anniversary. I think about the other business owners and workers on the block– Oscar and Jake, guitar-man Johnny, Emma and Irene at States Coffee, the Marquee stylists and the Moran Brothers, Steve and the punks at 1-2-3-4 Go, Dax and his barbershop crew. I think of the winemakers, distributors, and delivery people dropping cases week after week. I also think of the other small business owners across Oakland and the East Bay who think about community like we do: interconnected circles of relationships who come together to give and receive support.

We all, in bigger and smaller ways, tend to this place– 420 40th Street, Temescal, Oakland, the Bay Area, California– and that connects us to each other. In this spirit, I’m excited to help launch the Third Space Collective, a nascent mutual aid effort to fortify community-rooted small business owners, and I invite you to support the participating businesses who exemplify these values.

In the weeks and months ahead, Oakland Yard will be here for you, come what may, and I will be hosting the winter series Welcome Wednesdays: soup, bread, wine, and welcome. Come be nourished, feel connected to the people you share this place with, and help tend to the spirit of our community.

But first, TONIGHT...THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS: Wines of Southern France - Taste 3 reds from the Languedoc-Roussillon or 3 whites from Provence and the Rhône valley.
2023 Domaine de Roquefort Petit Salé de Villeneuve
2023 Anne Pichon Sauvage Vermentino
2022 Domaine la Cabotte Colline Côtes du Rhone Blanc
2023 Domaine Rimbert Chant de Marjolaine
2019 Les Clos Perdus Année Rouge
2020 Domaine de Majas Côtes Catalanes Rouge
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SATURDAY 1/11: OREGON WINE FLIGHTS -
Taste a white, a light ‘orange’ wine, and two reds from the Willamette, Bear Creek, and Applegate Valleys.
2023 Cameron Giuliano White Blend
2022 Kelley Fox Nerthus Skin-Macerated White
2023 Ayres Vineyard Ribbon Ridge Gamay
2022 Twill Cellars Syrah
Flights $18 from 2-6pm and wines by the glass until 9pm!


Yours,
Julia

“Daylight leaks in, and sluggishly I surface
from my own dreams into the common dream”

So begins Jorge-Luis Borges’ poem Waking Up, and my entry into the new year. Julia and I fled to the Capay Valley to ring in 2025 with a home-cooked meal among friends and a blazing bonfire ringed with local farmers beneath a dazzling canopy of stars. And we sang and danced at midnight to The Rolling Stones’ You Can’t Always Get What You Want, a tradition I picked up back in the nineties from a Vermont family who’d likely been featuring the track for decades. The spirit is apt and the lyrics are as dumbfounding as Auld Lang Syne. The song begins with a tender melody from the London Bach Choir with organ, perfect for hugs and kisses, then builds to a feverish revival pitch that can only be met with the ecstatic energy required to begin a new year. Now I think I’m ready. May 2025 bring you happy surprises and more love and happiness.

Oakland Yard will be CLOSED this Monday 1/6 and Tuesday 1/7 for inventory counting. We'll reopen Wednesday 1/8 from 11 to 9 with Julia’s Welcome Wednesday Soup Pop-Up from 5 to 8pm and wines by the glass until 9pm.

But first, TONIGHT...THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS: Slovenian whites and Portuguese reds
These two small European countries (the size of Massachusetts and Indiana, respectively) have been making excellent wine for millennia (more compelling than anything I’ve tasted from Massachusetts or Indiana) and we’re excited to share some of their distinctive viniferous styles.
2023 Črnko Jareninčan 1L
2018 Kabaj Ravan Friulano
2021 Guerila Vipavska Dolina Rebula
2023 Filipa Pato Dinamica Baga Tinto
2021 Luis Seabra Xisto Ilimitado Vinho Tinto
2021 Quinta das Arcas Herdade Penedo Gordo Tinto
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SATURDAY 1/4: HUNGARIAN WINE FLIGHTS: Sample a smoky, mineral, dry Tokaji, two refreshing new sillers (IYKYK), and a liter of fruity, light red from the land of waters.
2021 Samuel Tinon Birtok Dry Tokaji Furmint
2022 Heimann & Fiai Piros Siller
2023 Káli Kövek Karmazin
2023 Vaskapu Kastély Easy Red 1L
Flights $20 from 2-6pm and wines by the glass until 9pm!


Let’s share a cup o’ kindness yet,

Max

The first time I took my daughter out to learn to ride a bike was remarkable. A neighbor had put their kid's old bike on the curb to give away, and on a whim I loaded the bike and my 5 year older daughter in my CR-V and we drove to a parking lot in the Oakland hills for her first lesson. 

Minutes later, I was holding the bike steady with my hands on the front bar and the rear seat as she mounted the cycle. But as I began my orientation, she pushed the pedal forward and simply took off.  No lesson, no nothing. She just started riding. I couldn’t find any words, no cheer nor caution... just ridiculous squawks chasing after her in disbelief, reaching for my phone to record, then reconsidering after what I presumed would be an inevitable accident. She called from some distance: I can’t stop!... I don’t know how to turn this thing!... and then somehow she instinctively U-turned and cruised back down to me. She dismounted, looking just as surprised and frightened of her new ability as I was.  I think I’m gonna take a break now, she suggested with some relief.

I feel compelled to note that this episode was indeed a true surprise and highly unusual – I am by no means suggesting my daughter is advanced in any way, unless sass is something that can be ranked by any current national metric.

Now 7, she just got a new bigger bike for Christmas yesterday and the cycle (pun intended) continues, with her her little sister learning to ride this week. The little one is not so naturally athletic and will start the old-fashioned way with training wheels. I’ll let you know how it goes.


Thank you for joining the unpredictable ride that this little shop has been so far and for giving us the gift of another year. We love being a part of this beautiful community. Here's to another year together and to whatever the road ahead may yield. We look forward to riding together into the new year, whether with training wheels or wild, reckless joy.  


TONIGHT: THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS: Austrian Gruner and Loire Reds
2023 Hiedler Loss Gruner Veltliner
2023 Nigl Freiheit Gruner Veltliner
2023 OTT Amberg Gruner Veltliner 
2022 Chateau St Marie Petite Marie Rouge
2022 Sebastian David Hurluburlu Cab Franc
2022 Les Athletes du Vin Chinon
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SATURDAY 12/28: CHAMPAGNE FLIGHTS!
Get ready to ring in the new year with sparking delights...
Tassin Champagne
Lelarge Pugeeout Tradition
Pierre Moncuit Coulmet
Flights $20 from 2-6pm and wines by the glass until 9pm!


Cheers,

Daniel

Once again, and seemingly so swiftly, we near the close of another year. This Saturday the Sun will align with the Southern Tropic and, with little time aloft, will trace a shallow arc to the ocean, dropping from view beside the great redwood of 40th and Webster Streets, and we will know we’ve reached the depth of winter. And once again, the shop is full of wine and chocolate, cheese and paté, tinned fish and mulled wine kits, beer, Port, Sequoia Sake gift boxes, and holiday cheer, bursting with goods to enliven your end of year festivities.

Drop in this week for a glass while you shop, or a relaxing flight with an old friend. We’ve enjoyed a steady stream of friendly faces this holiday season - regulars with visiting relatives, returning Oaklanders demonstrating their own nativity, dropping in for a bottle to share with family, and I’m looking forward to many more of these happy reunions as the year comes to a close. Thanks so much for all of your support! Oakland Yard will OPEN EARLY this Monday 12/23 from NOON to 9pm ... and OPEN this Tuesday, Christmas Eve from 11 to 6pm to satisfy your outstanding needs for gifts and wine!


But first, TONIGHT...THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS: White Burgundy and red Rhone blends
Taste elegant, mineral Chardonnay and earthy, spicy, Syrah, Grenache and Cinsault
2023 Domaine Côteaux des Margots Mâcon-Villages
2022 Domaine Perroud Chiras Bourgogne Blanc
2022 Yannick Cadiou Petit Chablis
2023 Domaine de Sulauze Cochon VdF Rouge
2019 Domaine d l’Agramante Ciaula Côtes-du-Rhône
2021 Domaine du Pourra Ma P’tite Pause Côtes-du-Rhône
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SATURDAY 12/21: WINTER SOLSTICE FLIGHTS - Wines of nature. Wines of change.
2021 Guerila Vipavska Dolina Rebula
2023 Charles Frey Bien dans sa Peau
2022 Desire Lines Winds of Change Syrah
2022 Domaine des Pothiers Eclipse Méthode Ancestrale Rosé
Flights $20 from 2-6pm and wines by the glass until 9pm!


Cheers,
Max

HOLIDAY HOURS:
OPEN Thursday-Monday regular hours til 9pm
MONDAY 12/23 OPEN EARLY - NOON To 9pm
TUESAY 12/24 Christmas Eve  - OPEN from 11 To 6pm 
* Closed Christmas Day *

Seven years ago this week, I wasn't thinking too much about the holidays. The shop had just turned one year old and my wife and I were expecting our first child at any moment. As much as I thought I had prepared, when the day came it ultimately wasn't too far from the chaotic scene from so many movies. The frantic phone call that "it was happening..." and the scramble that ensued (forever).

I can count on one hand the times we've closed shop early, unexpectedly or otherwise. But seven years ago, a handful of you were there and got the news with me in real time. I can still hear my clumsy announcement after I hung up from my wife's call. An excited gasp from the bar. A raised glass (and a few of you downing your glasses in record time). Some regulars and a few strangers gathering their coats, smiling, excited for me. A couple helping lock up shop. Pats on the shoulder at the door. A hug. All of us in the silly scene together. 

Wherever your head or heart is this month, however prepared or otherwise... whatever holiday happenings or high jinks might be in store, we'll be here for you. No rushing out unexpectedly - our doors are open everyday until 9pm and we're here to make this month a joyful one and simply fuss free. Our staff are here to help curate cases for parties and festivities and we've got seasonal gifts from special holiday 6 packs to mulling spice kits to sake box sets and everything in between.

And for those needing something extra special... the OAKLAND YARD Wine Club is a spectacular holiday gift (to yourself or a loved one:)... and one that will keep on giving! Each month, club members receive two outstanding wines for $48. Max writes dynamic and detailed tasting notes for each release as we move around the world tasting and exploring various regions and grape varieties. We are tasting wines from all over, all month, to choose selections specifically for this club - so these bottles rarely make it onto the shelves here. With each club installment we share why we love these wines and include background notes on the producer, grape varieties, winemaking techniques, regional history, tasting notes and occasional recipes or pairing suggestions - a mini personal wine class. Club members also enjoy 10% ALL in store purchases - along with 10% off ALL FLIGHTS and WINES BY THE GLASS, always! JOIN TODAY. Stop by the shop or give us a call at (510) 808- 5129. Or you can now sign up ONLINE!
  
Speaking of Glasses and Flights...
TONIGHT... Thursday Night Flights! SOUTHERN FRENCH WHITES & GREEK XINOMAVRO!:
2023 Domaine de Roquefort Petit Salé de Villeneuve
2023 Domaine de Brin Pierres Blanches Gaillac Blanc
2017 Laballe Les Sables Fauves Landes Blanc
2022 Vaeni Naoussa Xinomavro
2019 Vaeni Grande Reserve Xinomavro
2022 Thymiopoulos Young Vines Xinomavro
Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until close!

SATURDAY 12/14: ZINFANDEL Flights!Classic cool weather reds - fresh and lively local treasures...
2023 Camp Zinfandel
2022 Ridge Three Valleys Zinfandel
2022 Turley Old Vines Zinfandel
2016 Sky Vineyards Estate Zinfandel
Flights $20 from 2-6 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SUNDAY 12/15: Ed's Bread Pop Up from 1 to 4. Ed's Bread Pop Up returns with artisan breads including sourdough wheat-rye, sourdough flaxseed-wheat, sourdough black sesame togarashi - as well as sweet and savory pastries, scones, and cookies!

Cheers,

Daniel

Today, December 5th 2024, would have been Joan Didion’s ninetieth birthday. Didion’s writing helped form my conception of life in America, specifically the idiosyncrasies of California, and I think of her work often as I wander this land. Last week, I was enjoying a holiday Martini at the Thaddich Grill, a place Joan would have loved - or probably DID love - and one of several San Francisco centenarian dining establishments with which every bay area maven should familiarize themselves, and, not for the first time, I considered the restaurant’s history. This grand space, with its endless mahogany bar and well-shorn white-coated servers, originated when three Croatians - Budrovich, Gasparich, and Kosta - opened a coffee stand that served grilled fish on a pier in 1849, a time when the San Francisco bay came to the edge of Montgomery street, and California was not yet an American state! Just one year prior, in February of 1848, the United States wrested California from Mexico, and on December 5th 1848, President James K. Polk told congress gold had been discovered in California, setting off the California Gold rush. San Francisco went from a town of 1,000 people in 1848 to a city of 25,000 by 1850, when California became a member of the United States.

As I finished my cocktail, I considered that from 1920 until 1933 my drink was prohibited by the US government, by the will of the people, and no one was having Martinis at the Thaddich Grill for those fourteen years (the origin of the Martini is disputed, but they were certainly in circulation by 1920). Then I conjured thoughts of the festivities that must have engulfed the city following the 18th amendment’s repeal on December 5th, 1933, one year to the day before the birth of our dear, insightful bon vivant and national treasure, Joan Didion. How time flies!

The past is known, albeit strange, and the future uncertain, though sure to be even stranger. Let’s not forget how different things were around here so very recently, appreciate what we’ve got, and know that change will come. In this frame, Oakland Yard is a blink of an eye, but a beautiful blink and all the more reason to come celebrate life with wine and friends. This coming ‘Welcome Wednesday’ Julia will be serving up a hearty Tuscan Ribollita soup, full of beans, fresh veggies, and we’ve got wines by the glass from noon until nine every day.

But first, TONIGHT...a special THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHT with guest winemaker Terah Bajjalieh of TERAH WINE CO.:
2023 Verdejo
2023 Skin Fermented Falanghina
2022 Pinot Noir
2022 Barbera
Flights $20 from 5 to 8:30 and wines by the glass until 9pm

SATURDAY 12/7: WINTER REDS - We’ll pop a delicious MAGNUM of northern Rhone Syrah, along with three other rich, satisfying, full-bodied reds from Italy, Spain, and California, all fit for a holiday meal or just a chilly December evening.
2022 Domaine des Entrefaux Crozes-Hermitage 1.5 Liter
2021 Terra d'Aligi Tatone Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
2021 Juan Gil Monstrell
2022 Cary Q Hollis Mourvedre
Flights $18 from 2 to 6pm and wines by the glass until 9pm!


Cheers,

Max

I share a lot of stories through these missives - but no stories today. As I've likely said in the past, some days are for story gathering, for memory collecting, Today's a good day for looking around and realizing our individual narratives have some pretty sweet chapters.

So let's keep eyes and hearts open to the tale unfolding, and to the characters within our stories that mean so much to us. You can tell us all about your holiday feasts and fun (or disasters) when we connect again. I'm sure I'll have some anecdotes for you too :)

Some quick news: We're OPEN TODAY from 10-2 and back to regular hours all weekend! Lion's Dance Cafe will be taking over Tacos Oscar through Monday - pick up next door and grab a table and some glasses here! Welcome Wednesdays will take a break next week, but will return for service Wednesday 12/11. We've got Terah Bajjalieh (TERAH WINE CO) pouring her wines at Oakland Yard next Thursday 12/5 from 5-9! And lastly... this Saturday - Flights this week, as always, from 2-6!

THANK YOU for choosing OAKLAND YARD. Your ongoing support means the world to us, and we are truly grateful to serve and be a part of this wonderful community. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

SATURDAY 11/30: Italian Flights...
2021 Ezio Poggio Caespes Timorasso Terre di Libarna
2022 Pacher Hof Kerner
2023 Foradori LEZER Teroldego
2021 Terra d'Aligi Tatone Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Flights $20 from 2-6pm and wines by the glass until 9pm!


Cheers,
Daniel