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First Friday Block Party
A dream long in the making, Donkey & Goat close 5th Street together with their neighbor Hammerling Wines and Broc Cellars on the First Friday of each month to host Block Party from 3 - 7pm! This event includes live music, local artists, & rotating food pop-ups. Learn More
Donkey & Goat is celebrated for being amongst a handful of pioneers in the Natural Wine community because in 2004 they were unique for their ecological principles driving decisions in both the vineyard and the cellar and ten years later for promoting transparency, being one of the first to list ingredients on their label. Founding winemakers Tracey Rogers & Jared Brandt spent a year with the inimitable Eric Texier in 2002 studying the art of crafting natural wines in the Rhone Valley before co-founding Donkey & Goat in 2004 in San Francisco.
In 2006, with distribution around the US and a growing mailing list, Donkey & Goat moved to 2323-B 4th Street in Berkeley where they built out the first winery facility that is now home to MaƮtre de Chai Wine. Five years later in March of 2011, with a newborn Lily Brandt, Rogers embarked upon the extensive build out for the current Winery & Tasting Room at 1340 5th Street which opened in July of 2011. Today the block includes three additional wineries that Rogers helped bring to the block: Broc Cellars (2013), Hammerling Wines (2018) and Vinca Minor (2019) which together are the Gilman Wine Block which hosts monthly First Friday Celebrations and more.