Come taste the delicious wines of Long Island! You may have read about this recently lauded region, but the wines are notoriously hard to get here in San Francisco. Luckily we managed to bring some bottles from the wineries and we want to share them with you!

We have a spectacular lineup of wines from both The Hamptons and the North Fork, listed below. Come early… the tasting is over when the wine runs out.

2010 Wolffer Estate Chardonnay

2011 Shinn Estate Vineyards Chardonnay

2010 Channing Daughters ‘L’enfant Sauvage’

2008 Channing Daughters ‘Sculpture Garden’

2009 Channing Daughters ‘Due Uve’

2009 Shinn Estate Vineyards ‘Wild Boar Doe’

We are excited to announce our new partnership with Bartab, a social eating and drinking app that allows you to treat yourself and friends to drinks, food, and more at local bars and restaurants. Bartab goes beyond mobile payments, connecting people and places for meaningful, real-world experiences. Use Bartab at The Barrel Room to send a round of drinks, a cheese plate, or even a wine club membership to yourself or friends from anywhere!

Download the free app and try out Bartab at our launch party on Monday, February 4th. We will be offering the following specials, all available through Bartab for your convenience:

chocolate dipped figs – 3 for $6

a glass of white, rose, or red wine for $6

** to RSVP, click here

If you caught our blog last week about the hidden greatness of Australian wines but were disappointed to see that most of wines we wrote about are unavailable stateside, this is your chance to try them for yourself! We stuffed our suitcases full of interesting and unexpected wines that we are excited to share with you. Taste a lineup of whites and reds that we bet are unlike most you’ve ever tried from down under while learning about this exciting region that Wine Spectator just declared is in the midst of a significant turnaround (we think they came to this conclusion after peeking at our blog!).

The tasting, which is $15 per person, will begin at 5:30 and end when we run out of delicious wine, so be sure to get here early!

Celebrate the coming of the End of the World, December 21, 2012…
…with all the wine you can drink, $20, 11pm-1am at The Barrel Room!

The Mayan calendar predicted it long ago. Will the world end on Friday December 21, 2012? Or is the prediction just a myth? We’ll be prepared either way…

Join us from 11pm-1am for an all-you-can-drink celebration, along with a sparkling wine toast at 11:59pm (just in case…)

RSVP to info@barrelroomsf.com if you’d like us to save some wine for you.

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The Barrel Room is turning one year old on August 12th! It’s hard to believe a year has gone by so fast. We would love to celebrate with our friends, loyal customers, and all of the people who have graciously helped us over the past twelve months. Please join us for a glass of bubbly on us as well as complimentary cheese served with McQuade’s Celtic Chutney, chocolate-covered strawberries, and more!

Starting tonight, pick up a passport, write your name on it, and store it behind the bar all summer as you sip your way through familiar regions like France, Italy, and Australia, as well as more obscure wine-producing nations like Cyprus, Croatia, and Turkey. Each time you taste a wine, your passport will be stamped and loaded up with useful information about its country of origin. Nearly twenty countries are available to choose from. Once your trip around the world is completed, you will be rewarded with a tasty bottle of wine (at a $50 value) to sip as you recall your exhilarating journey. You can then take your passport home to revisit all of the fun facts you’ve learned, or just show it to your friends and brag about what a well-traveled wino you are.

$30 for 5 pre-released spring wines + full-size pour of your favorite on April 17th!

Join us and Thrillist to help kick off our new by-the-glass menu: Wines of the Islands. This menu will include wines from the Greek islands, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Tasmania, and Long Island.

$30 will get you a taste of 5 pre-released island wines plus a full pour of your favorite, along with cheeses and accompaniments from 5:30 to 8pm.

Sample 6 wines from one of the best producers in Baja California. We will be pouring Roganto’s Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, Tempranillo, and Meritage blend.

Roganto Wine (or Vides y Vinos Californianos S.P.R. de R.L) is considered by experts to be one of the top wineries in Mexico. In fact, last year a special wine tasting event organized by Mexico’s top independent wine experts and specialists was held at 13,200 feet in elevation (creating superior tasting conditions) where they chose 2005 Roganto Tempranillo as the second best wine in the country.

Even though Roganto winery is technically a boutique winery in size and production, it could classify as an artisan winery due to the high quality and individual attention focused on each vintage of wine. Their state-of-the-art winery facility is a real hidden treasure of Ensenada located behind a well drilling and commercial pump business – just a few miles south of downtown on Reforma Ave. Two wine enthusiasts, Rogelio Sanchez and Antonio Luis Escalante have teamed up to create the remarkable Roganto wines. It’s almost a “top secret” and access to the tasting room is limited to serious wine lovers and those with “inquiring palates.”