"Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners."
- Andre Simon (1877-1970)

Greetings Wine (and Beer) Lovers and Friends!

Spring Wine Blitz Returns!
One Weekend Only
Thursday May 8th through Sunday May 11th
20% off Mixed Cases of Wine
Free delivery in San Francisco
Put together 12 or more bottles of any wine in the store and receive 20% off. Pick out a full case of your favorite, or let us help you put together a mixed case. We'll have all on hands on deck to give you the best recommendations to help you stock up for spring and summer. We'll even deliver the wine.

As part of the wine blitz, we'll have a special tasting with Mick Unti from Unti Vineyards.
He'll join us at Bluespace on Friday, May 9th from 5-8 pm to share his new releases, including the 2007 Rose, and his new flagship red wine.
No RSVP required, just stop by Bluespace Gallery at 593 Guerrero at 18th street, just down the block from Bi Rite.

Please join our wine mailing list to find out about our upcoming wine tastings, classes, and special events. Send an email to wine@biritemarket.com

Our wine guides and previous "Thinking and Drinking" event notes are available online:
Spring wine guide (PDF format)
Winter '06 (PDF format)
Fall '06 (PDF format)

Bi-Rite's wine department offers something for every occasion and budget. Our wines are hand-selected by our in-house buyers, who taste every single wine before deciding whether to carry it. We usually taste ten to twenty wines before finding one to carry! Our wine assortment represents some of the world's great winemaking regions, including:

California: Sonoma, Napa, Central Coast, Sierra foothills, Mendocino
Oregon & Washington
France: Loire, Rhône, Burgundy, Bordeaux, Alsace, Southern France, Champagne
Italy: Piemonte, Alto Adige, Veneto, Sicily, Tuscany, Sardinia
Spain: Rioja, Galicia, Castilla y León, Penedès, Ribera del Duero
Portugal: still and dessert wines
The Southern Hemisphere: Chile, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa
And beyond...Germany, Austria, and Slovenia

In addition to still red and white wines, we also offer sparkling wines, rosés, chilled whites, half bottles, dessert, and fortified wines.

Whenever possible, we support small producers who use sustainable methods; we also buy directly from a number of producers, so you may see the winemakers themselves making a delivery to the store! At the moment, we're buying some great wines directly from these producers:

T-vine
Unti
Fanucchi
Stephen Singer
Roshambo

We also feature a number of biodynamically-produced wines. Biodynamic farming is a system that treats a farm (or vineyard) as a whole living system, and, among other things, makes use of homeopathic techniques and flowers and elemental minerals to fortify the land. It even takes planetary movement into account as an influence on the fertility of plants. Some of our biodynamic winemakers include:

Quivira
Preston
Chateau de Puligny-Montrachet
Robert Sinskey
Movia
Montirius

We love to talk about wine, and we want people to feel comfortable asking us questions. We try to share our wine passion with our customers, without being pretentious. And so that we can be as helpful as possible, we regularly conduct wine tasting seminars with our employees.

We offer a 10% discount on case purchases, and it's ok to mix and match within the case. We will also do special orders for a minimum order of a half case.

Liquor -
In addition to staple liquors, we offer a number of local specialty spirits, such as Anchor Distilling, Germain-Robin, St. George Spirits and Charbay. We also have an excellent selection of single malt scotch and bourbon.

Beer -
Whether you prefer lambics, porters, or pilsners, our beer assortment boasts a number of unique selections. We feature local beers from Marin Brewing Co. and Lagunitas Brewing, as well as from Belgium and beyond. We also have great biodynamically produced hard apple ciders from France.