I'm number six of seven. Certain things are inevitable when you have 6 siblings. As children, we could expect a fair share of Seven Dwarfs memorabilia around the holidays- greeting cards and ornaments and whatnot. One for each of us. It was a no-brainer that the infant, my little brother Timothy, would be "Sleepy". The oldest brother, "Doc", naturally. The occasionally ill-tempered brother accepted the "Grumpy" moniker with some pride, the shyest seemed happy to be "Bashful", but not too happy... you see where this is going. Yep. I got Dopey. Or rather, I was Dopey. Forever. Resistance was futile. It was simply by default, mom swore. I'd like to say I was skeptical, but I took her word for it. Like a dope.

Another inevitability of seven kids is an even (if not equal) distribution of chores. A certain symmetry to the working week. We were each assigned a day. Forever. It was known as our "Special Day". The rules were simple. You got to decide what was for dinner. And you had to do all the dishes that night. Amongst ourselves, we kids called it our "yucky day". Mine was Saturday. Always a big gamble: possible easy peasy, pizza night if I was lucky- or, at very least, the night older siblings were likely to be at friends' houses. But inevitably, the day would come when the big party was at our house. Then my nightmare was real: endless bowls of coagulated dips, grey guacamole, caked and crusted casserole remains. Everyone using three cups. I would pray that morning that there wasn't dessert. Root beer floats? You can all go to hell...

I am thrilled to announce that our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY celebration will be next SUNDAY! Not Saturday. Sunday. Sunday, November 5th from 2-6pm to be exact. And that's Timothy's "special" day so get down here and make a mess. It's going to be a hell of a lot of fun too! We'll be setting up an outdoor patio behind the shop (the store and tasting bar will stay open all day too)! Nokni Oakland and Tacos Oscar will be serving up delicious food, we'll have beer from Temescal Brewing and, of course, you can count on amazing wines and bubbly by the glass and bottle all day here at OAKLAND YARD! House-made sangria too and live, cuban music by Calle Ocho! Tell your friends. Tell your siblings. Tell Timothy to be ready...

But first... as always, THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS TONIGHT from 4-8pm! Vermentino or Gamay? 3 whites and 3 reds. A stellar selection this evening to be certain! Choose your own adventure tonight! Flights $12.

Also.. we are delighted to have HOUTSKOOL Dumpling House returning to OAKLAND YARD this SATURDAY from 4-7pm! We'll be starting the day off right with Flights from 3-6pm: Wines from Hungary! (insert hungry pun here). We'll also be pouring special wines by the glass all day and into the evening until 9pm. 

SUNDAY: Sparkling Flights from 12-6pm. Bubbles and by the glass specials all day. Lift off with us!


Heigh-Ho... Let's do this.


Daniel