Dining Around February 28

Gene is broadcasting live from the Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition at Fort Mason Center. The public tasting is today, February 28, from 2-5 p.m.

Bob Fraser, department chair of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Santa Rosa Junior College and colleague Michael Salinger, co-chair of the Consumer and Family Studies Department, stop by to talk about the college's wine studies and culinary arts programs.

Next, time to eat local, with Jane St. Claire, the founder of Savor California; Kendra and Paul Kolling, proprietors of Nana Mae's Organics in Sebastopol; Marisa Simoes, proprietor of Three Sisters Farmstead Cheese in Tulare County.

Greg Warwick of Fentiman's Soda brings a little fizz to the proceedings, along with SF Chronicle food editor Michael Bauer, Gilles Martin of Sparkling Pointe of Long Island, New York, and Florent Lescombes of Southwest Wines.