Archive for October, 2008

JAQK Uncorked

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
It’s official! On October 9, 2008, JAQK Cellars was launched at Le Club in San Francisco with great fanfare and success. The debut of our eight wines couldn’t have gone any better. Glasses were filled and emptied quickly and continuously as Craig extolled the virtues of each varietal.

There was a good deal of “playing” going on, whether on the card table, in the billiard room, or at the hands of the fiendishly befuddling card trickster extraordinaire, Chester Santos.
The turn-out was as impressive as it was flattering, and even included a few wine industry luminaries. Alas, we couldn’t invite everyone, but we would like to share the evening with all our friends. So, check out festivities. You can view all the images and order prints from http://www.sendtoprint.net (the User ID is JAQK, all caps).

From cask to corking: a peek into the final steps of making JAQK wines.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

It’s safe to say that we all know how to get the wine out of the bottle. But how does it get in there in the first place? It’s actually a very cool process that many people never see. Take a look at photos from earlier this summer.

(With special thanks to Sara Remington for the beautiful photography.)