Just a quick note among the sweets and nog, the rain and slippers, the ribbons and candles and sweet smells of home. We at Oakland Yard hope you’re feeling cozy and carefree this holiday season. We’ve enjoyed meeting your visiting family members, and welcoming back so many familiar faces from seasons past, and as always, we’re truly proud when our wines are part of the carefully considered and undoubtedly delicious meals so many of you have been preparing this week.

As our friend Lore Olds of Sky vineyards will tell you, these feasts are the last act in the performance piece that is each bottle of wine; a protracted drama, beginning with just a vine, some sun, soil, and water. There are long cold nights before the bloom, then sugar and acid, and the guiding hand of the vigneron. Then it sleeps, until the uncorking, when the curtain rises, and we greet the wine with laughter and smiles, the delicious flavors of a home cooked meal, and the warmth and comfort of loved ones.

2020’s just around the corner, but if you want one more final act, or two, or three, we’re here today with Thursday night flights, and then all weekend tasting bubbles to ring in the new year. Take a walk, get out of the house, bring your sister, your brother, your mother’s mother, maybe some animals, and join us as we bid goodbye to the fitful teens and toast the better days to come!

TONIGHT: Thursday Night Flights.​ French Rhone Reds and Greek Whites. Flights $12 from 5-9 and wines by the glass.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Sparkling Wine Flights! ​Holiday Bubbles, Crowd-Pleasers, New arrivals, Staff favorites,. ​Flights $15 from 2-6 and wines by the glass Saturday until 9 and Sunday until 8.

Cheers,

Max