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Wine on Piedmont

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Wine on Piedmont

Specializing in small producer minimally processed fine wines, artisan spirits, and craft beers. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Owner/Operator Brian Goehry brings his 30-plus years wine and spirits knowledge to life at this favorite neighborhood shop. Located on bustling Piedmont Avenue for seven plus years, Brian has successfully cultivated an extensive and specialized collection of fine wines, artisan spirits, and craft beers. Our knowledgeable staff are here to guide you, as well as offering regular wine tastings for those looking to expand their wine knowledge/palate.

06/13/2025

While all red wines should be served with a slight chill (cellar temperature, dang it!), the concept of “chillable red wine” as its own category is still relatively new—and growing in popularity daily.

⏰ 5-7:30
🎟️ $12 at the door / $7 early bird and club

We’ll be featuring 4 chilled chillables, perfect for camping trips, picnics in the park, barbecues or whatever adventures your summer holds:

🍷Kékhegy Siller 23, Mátra, Hungary
🍷Domaine Baud Generation 9 ‘Cousu Main’ 23 Trousseau, Jura, France
🍷 Kleinlerer Wines Dancin’ Sophie Cinsault 24, Lodi, CA
🍷 Occhipinti Terre Siciliana Il Frappato 22 (Arianna’s soul in a bottle & such a beautiful iconic wine. Who says chillable reds can’t be serious?)

Bread & cheese will be provided. As always, all featured wines will be available to attendees at 10%.

We cannot wait to see you there!

06/11/2025

Sometimes I have to remind myself to stop doomscrolling, get outside, and reconnect with friends and our amazing community. Tomorrow night (6/12) Piedmont Ave Merchants are staying open late, offering discounts, sidewalk sales and pop ups. We’ll be making seasonal 🍓 spritzes featuring locally produced VESO Solstice Apertif from 4:30-7:30pm.

Support your neighborhood merchants and catch up with neighbors!

Menu:
$9 for VESO 🍓spritz
$8 for Non-alc Orange spritz
Apero snacks included

& remember that many revolutions and resistance movements began over a simple drink.

06/05/2025

Friday, June 6th Brian Stapleton, Central European wine expert, from returns to our bar to pour some dazzling wines from Hungary’s Tokaj region—2 dry, 1 sparkling & of course, one those lusciously sweet wines that the region’s reputation is built on.

What could be better as we head into summer than 4 wildly flavorful, and wickedly zesty mineral driven whites?

⏰ 5-7:30pm

🎟️ $15 ($10 club) at the door / save $5 by reserving in advance online (via link in bio or on our events page)

Bread & cheese will be provided.

As always, all featured wines will be available for attendees to purchase at 10% off.

We cannot wait to see you there!

05/30/2025

TONIGHT Friday 5/30 (pardon the last minute post) we’ll be pouring some absolute stunners from two of our wine clubs that released earlier this month (pictured above).

While the event is free for members of those 2 clubs, it’s open to all!

Stop by anytime between 5 & 7:30pm.

$15 (discounts for Explorers club members & free for RM & Adventurers club members) for a taste of the 4 featured wines.

As always, all featured wines will be available for 10% off to tasting attendees tonight only.

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Ever tried Champagne from one of the greatest grower-producers in Champagne (Vilmart & Cie?) Now’s the time to right that wrong!

Ever had a white Pinot Noir (a still Blanc de Blanc?)? If not, today is your chance to try it—or stop by later this weekend when we’ll be featuring it by the glass and in a 3 Pinots flight.

We hope to see you soon!

05/16/2025

🇵🇹🍷It’s the perfect night for some Vinho Verde & context. TONIGHT Friday 5/16 from 5-7:30 we’re delighted to host Marc West Teixeira of imports at our back bar. He’ll be pouring 4 Portuguese wines with personalities as big as his.

Featured Wines:
• Quinta de Lourosa Vinho Verde 23
• Casa de Mouraz Encruzado Dão 22
• Planet Mouraz ‘Nina’ Palhete 21
• Invincible Wine Company Vinho Tinto 21

All featured wines will be available to attendees at 10% off.

Hundreds of indigenous varieties, very old vines, high altitude vineyards, schist & granitic soils and a new generation of producers championing organic and biodynamic viticulture—what’s not to love about Portugal?

Better yet, as the prices of wines from better known regions climb, well made wines from Portugal remain almost inexplicably budget friendly.

We can’t wait to see you there!

05/09/2025

We’re so excited to have local winemaker .bajjalieh of pouring at our bar tomorrow night (FRIDAY 5/9).

Terah is a rising star. Since launching her eponymous label in 2020, she’s been named one of Wine Enthusiast’s “Future 40”, featured in Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle and Wine Business. She’ll pouring some of her new Spring releases along with some of our old favorites (Besson Vineyard Old Vine Grenache ❤️) so you can see what all the fuss is about.

Details:

⏰ 5-7:30pm

🎟️ $15 general (half price all club members) for 4 wines

Featured wines:
1) 2024 Vermentino, Clements Hills
2) 2023 Sangiovese, Mokulmne River
3) 2023 Red (Rhône) Blend
4) 2022 Besson Vineyard Old Vine Grenache

As always, all featured wines will be available for sale at 10% off.

More about Terah Wine Co.

Terah’s focus is on low-touch winemaking and working with vineyard partners who practice organic, biodynamic and regeneratively viticulture—notably Shakeridge Ranch’s Ann Kraemer—to showcase some truly special California sites.

Though Bajjalieh initially studied Finance, not seeing a fulfilling career path ahead of her, she quickly pivoted into wine. After a decade of doing harvests around the globe, attaing serious credentials (a master’s degree in enology and viticulture from L’Institut Agro in Montpellier, France; a Wine & Spirit Education Trust Level 3 award in wine & spirits; and a Level 2 sommelier certification through the Court of Master) and gaining valuable work experience alongside some of the industry greats at places like DuMol and Stags Leap Wine Cellars (California) and Domaine de Montille (Burgundy), she had the confidence to launch her own label and wine consultancy in 2020.

As one of few LGBTQ+ winemakers, and one of even fewer Palestinian American winemakers, in the U.S., Terah is constantly working to foster a collaborative community in wine and serves as the Mentee Liaison Officer for the Battonage Project.

04/29/2025

📣 Extra Extra! Randall Grahm will be at Wine on Piedmont for a discussion and tasting this Sunday, 5/4 📣

Bonny Doon winery founder Randall Grahm has been called “the W***y Wonka of the wine world.” Now that he has mostly divested himself of the brand that perhaps made him too famous, he can devote himself entirely to making great wines of place from his Popelochum Estate, the most basic and also the most challenging project this erudite, eccentric, warm, funny and generous man has taken on to date. Learn more with us on Sunday!

See below for more details and don’t miss your chance to snag a ticket! Seating is limited.

Sunday Seminar & Tasting with Randall Grahm: Paradise Found at Popelochum Vineyard

What:
- A tasting of 7 wines (6 from his Popelochum Estate, including samples not released to@the public and a mystery wine!)
- a discussion about Graham’s latest venture into making great wines of place.

⏰ 4-6pm Sunday, May 4th

📍Wine on Piedmont
4183 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA

🎟️ $70 general / $45 club members & trade. Available for sale via link in bio and online.

Ticket price includes:
- falafel bar from Pomella
- 10% off available featured wines

About Popelochum Vineyard:
Popelochum, the Mutsun word for paradise, is a beautiful, remote property located just outside of San Juan Bautista in San Benito County abutting the San Andreas Fault. Purchased by Grahm in 2010, the site now hosts an experimental vineyard planted to 18+ acres on a virgin 415 acre plot. The site, chosen for spiritual, as well as scientific reasons, is planted to well-suited, conventional varieties like Pinot Noir and Grenache, along with the esoteric–Tibouren, Ruché and Picolit (one of Randall’s quixotic goals for the project is to propagate some “10,000 new grape varieties with the aim of identifying new ‘genius’ varieties”), all while crafting some exquisitely precise, multilayered wines from this highly diverse, low-yielding collection of vines.

04/26/2025

Sweet 16 and lovin’ every minute of it.

We’ve made it through a global recession, a pandemic and an ownership transition and a whole lot more thanks to our wonderful neighbors, customers, partners and employees. Thanks for allowing us to do what we do, and coming out to celebrate with us.

Carrot cake from . A great pairing with Moulin Touchais Coteaux du Layon 2009 < chef’s kiss >

❤️ ❤️

04/09/2025

This Friday! Shop favorite winemakers Matthew and Mara Rorick of Forlorn Hope in Calaveras County will be here pouring four wines from their spring release.

🕔 Friday, Apr. 11 • 5 - 7:30 PM
🎟️ $15 tickets ($7.50 for wine club members)
🥖 Bread and cheese included in ticket price
🍷 Come meet the Forlorn Hope winemakers!

Advance tickets are now on sale at the Wine on Piedmont website. We cannot wait to see you on Friday!

04/04/2025

So, I went to France.

Now that I’m back I can’t wait to share some wines and travel stories with you TONIGHT.

Destination: The Rhône

Explore through 4 wines: Côtes-du-Rhône, Condrieu, Saint-Joseph& Gigondas.

The grapes: (North) Syrah, Viognier, Marsanne; (South) Grenache, Roussanne—and many more.

About the Rhône:
The steep slopes along the Rhône river - notably the iconic Hill of Hermitage have been planted to grape vines since long before Christ - despite being some of the most treacherous vineyards to farm. Favorable sun exposure, well-drained, rocky, granite + schist soils and residents with fierce determination and loyalty have kept vignerons at it for generations, to magnificent results. The wines of Hermitage have been praise by Pliny and were called “the first wine in the world without exception” by Thomas Jefferson.

Further south of Hermitage, the climate becomes more Mediterranean and Grenache takes center stage.

Why the Rhône?
In a market where fresh, mineral whites and juicy, smooth ready-to-drink reds reign supreme, these wines can be challenging to sell, but have been some of my and my partner’s personal favorites. As I was first starting to get into wine, I remember being completely floored to discover that a wine (Côte Rotie) could smell and taste like violets and roasted game or that another, made from the same variety planted an hour or so south, could taste like olive tapenade, coriander and allspice (Hermitage, Cornas) — a rich stew in a glass. I’d spent years dreaming of seeing these vineyards and meeting the producers behind some of my favorite bottles.

Was it a good trip? You betcha.

03/26/2025

Adventurers Club members! Come through on Friday for a club pack pick up party!

All are welcome, but only Adventurers Club members and their plus ones get in for free (the perks of membership…).

🕔 Friday, Mar. 28 • 5 - 7:30 PM
🎟️ Tickets: $10 general admission, $5 Explorers and RM Club members, free for Adventurers Club friends and their plus ones!
🥖 Bread and cheese included in the ticket price.

We’ll be pouring the two wines in the newest Adventurers Club pack, plus an additional wine from each producer.

Advanced tickets are now available at the Wine on Piedmont website.

Come join us, meet your fellow wine club members, and bring home some delicious wines from Portugal and Australia!

03/19/2025

You know you want to come hang out and talk about sherry with Boyd Nielsen and the Wine on Piedmont staff!

🕔 Friday, Mar. 21 • 5 - 7:30 PM
🎟️ $10 tickets ($5 for wine club members)
🫒 Spanish snacks included in ticket price!
👔 90s ugly sweaters not required, but highly encouraged

Take a trip to the albareza hills with special guest Boyd Nielsen - former Wine on Piedmont employee, current Chambers & Chambers rep, forever sherry fan/jazz aficionado.

Boyd will be pouring four wines representing four of the major styles of sherry. This is a great chance to taste some of the great sherry producers for yourself, and see what those crazy Crane brothers have been rhapsodizing about for years!

Advance tickets are now available on the Wine on Piedmont website. We cannot wait to see you on Friday!

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4183 Piedmont Avenue
Oakland, CA
94611

Opening Hours

Tuesday	11am - 7pm
Wednesday	11am - 7pm
Thursday	11am - 7pm
Friday	11am - 7pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm

Website

http://www.wineonpiedmont.com/

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At Wine On Piedmont, we take our responsibility to the community and the environment just as seriously as our wines. Our selection reflects that -- we specialize in small producer minimally processed fine wines, artisan spirits, and craft beers. A large part of our inventory is also organic, bio-dynamic, and sustainably produced. With decades of combined experience, our staff can help find the perfect wine for you, your event, or a gift. We also happily accept special orders to find the exact bottle you’re looking for.