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