Esther Mobley

1 week ago | winebusiness.com | Esther Mobley |Nami Sumida

by Katherine Martine Following its recognition for excellence in environmental work with the Green Medal Award, Domaine CHANDON California held an interactive, “Rooted in Sustainability” panel on April 11, discussing the winery’s work with regenerative agriculture and kicking off its Earth Day weekend celebration.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Esther Mobley

20 hours agoThe same way you need special glasses to look at a solar eclipse, that’s how blindingly white I want my teeth to be. Obviously, this is a lofty goal, but I’ve been working toward it by experimenting with the best teeth whitening kits. This isn’t my first foray into teeth whitening. As a teen fresh …

1 week ago | hotair.com | Esther Mobley

California’s drinking habits have swung back and forth constantly over the past century, but they appear to have undergone a particularly dramatic shift in the last couple of years, according to a trove of state tax data analyzed by the Chronicle. Recently, California has experienced something of a wine-and-beer drought.

1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Esther Mobley |Nami Sumida

This increased spirits drinking was enough to tip California’s overall alcohol intake to a higher rate than it was pre-pandemic, despite the lower levels of wine and beer consumption. These numbers seem to complicate the California wine industry’s perception that people aren’t drinking as much as they used to. In fact, the data here suggests that people may just be drinking differently.

2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Esther Mobley

It’s official: Copra is the seventh-best restaurant in the Bay Area, according to Chronicle critics MacKenzie Chung Fegan and Cesar Hernandez, who revealed their full Top 100 Restaurants list this week. The South Indian restaurant is a dazzling spectacle of macrame pendants and creeping greenery, and chef Srijith Gopinathan’s food is bold, vibrant and uncompromising. But one thing that not everyone knows about Copra — yet — is that it also has one of the Bay Area’s best wine lists.