Terroir bar san francisco

Terroir was the setting — the context — for the text. Although the words had been uttered however sparingly before that time, Terroir was at once locus and locution for some of its earliest enunciations. It was also a super fun bar to hang out in and a wondrous meta in the ancient Roman sense for the wine-curious.

Vinyl spun on the jukebox as eno-hipsters streamed in and out. And the wines… oh the wines! And the conversation was as high-pitched as it was catholic with a small c. And even though one of the things that made it sexy was the slight sense of danger that you always felt there, owed in part to the hyper-urban environment where it is located, it was also a safe and welcoming space for those who wanted to expand their wine knowledge and experience.

Today, as the natural wine world has revealed its sharpest elbows, Terroir was a place where even a wine neophyte like a drummer in a faux French rock band could hang out and let it all hang out. We talked at length about the many luminaries of natural wine who have sat in his chairs over the years. We parsed the evolution of the language of natural wine in the 14 years that have passed since I first sat there.

And we tasted… we tasted and tasted and tasted… just like the old days. Revisiting after so many years and after the lockdowns, this space still had the same mystical, magical effect on me that it did when I first visited in my band was still extremely active then and SF was one of our top cities in terms of our draw. And the wines were funky, cloudy, and great….

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