Tender Greens is not a fancy restaurant, but the several locations around Los Angeles offer good food - much of it organic - at some pretty fair prices. Their local, line-caught albacore tuna for about $10 is hard to beat. Their concept is simple enough: sit-down food for on-the-go people made from ingredients that are more or less locally sourced, natural or organic and reasonably healthy. I wonder about how healthy the buttery mashed potatoes are, but not about how good they taste.
The wine offerings at Tender Greens are a little off-the-beaten-path, and that's a good thing. Their wines - the list is on a chalkboard - are not the usual big-producer fare often found in casual dining. Smaller, family-owned wineries appear to be the norm.
Pellegrini Family Vineyards is located in Sonoma County - the Russian River Valley - and they have three estate vineyards. The grapes for their 2010 Sauvignon Blanc, however, come from Lake County - the Leveroni Vineyard. It retails for $15 per bottle, and cost $8 by the glass at Tender Greens.
The wine is almost clear and offers some light grassy notes underneath melon aromas on the nose. It's a bright and refreshing wine, full of lively acidity and flavors of grapefruit and lemon peel. It paired well with the potato leek soup.
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The wine offerings at Tender Greens are a little off-the-beaten-path, and that's a good thing. Their wines - the list is on a chalkboard - are not the usual big-producer fare often found in casual dining. Smaller, family-owned wineries appear to be the norm.
Pellegrini Family Vineyards is located in Sonoma County - the Russian River Valley - and they have three estate vineyards. The grapes for their 2010 Sauvignon Blanc, however, come from Lake County - the Leveroni Vineyard. It retails for $15 per bottle, and cost $8 by the glass at Tender Greens.
The wine is almost clear and offers some light grassy notes underneath melon aromas on the nose. It's a bright and refreshing wine, full of lively acidity and flavors of grapefruit and lemon peel. It paired well with the potato leek soup.
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