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"Sweet heart, methinks now you are in an excellent good
temperalitie: your Pulsidge beats as extraordinarily, as heart would
desire; and your colour (I warrant you) is as Red as any Rose: But
you have drunk too much Canaries, and that's a marvellous searching
wine; and it perfumes the blood, ere we can say what's this. How
doe you now?"
Shakespeare, Henry 4, Pt 2
In "Henry the Fourth Part Two" Sir John Falstaff says:
"If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would
teach them should be to forswear thin potations"
 and
while I personally believe that thin potations are occasionally
efficacious, it is towards the thick that we now concern ourselves.
Wine.
Wine of the Country.
Wine of the Town.
And beer.
Beer and wine.
Wine is Biblical, historical, pre-historical.
Beer is Egyptian, Babylonian, Phoenician.
The distillation of the grain and grape pre-dates recorded memory.
Wine is like a perfume or an alchemical creation. It emanates an
aromatic, healing mystery. Beer is a hearty refreshment, caloric
and inspirational. Whether barley, wheat or rye, beer is a robust
blend of water, malted grain and yeast. An active food, as well
as a ribald inebriant.
As with the rest of Rainbow Grocery, our buying policy is based
on the philosophy that consumers should be able to get wholesome,
sustainable products of quality at reasonable prices. We try to
maintain a well rounded selection of organic beer and wine, and
make every effort to inform our customers which of our products
are vegan and which are not.
Vegan, you ask?
Once again, a quote from Shakespeare. In "The Merry Wives
Of Windsor" Sir John Falstaff calls for a flagon of wine. His
man asks if he will have it "With eggs?" to which Falstaff
replies, "Simple of itself. I'll no pullet-sperm in my brewage."
How now?
In fact, some wine is filtered with egg whites. Hence the pullet-sperm.
When we can, we will tell you if a wine has been filtered in such
a fashion, or if an alternative filter, such as clay, has been employed.
We also carry many unfiltered wines, which some experts consider
to offer "purer expressions of the grape."
 While
our selection is ever-changing, we try to maintain a good variety
of quality, affordable beer and wine from around the world, as well
as classic local beer and wine from California. We have bio-dynamic
wine from Alsace, yeasty ale from Munich, Belgian fruit Lambic ,
beautiful bargains from the southern Rhone, and fine beer from Brazil.
We carry a Rieslin
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