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After 38 years of operation at 5810 Folsom Blvd., Corti Brothers will be moving our store. The upcoming re-location of Corti Brothers brick and mortar operations in October of 2008 will not effect our internet and mail order customers.

Consorcio tuna at Corti Brothers   Consorcio - The Gold   Standard of Tuna 

Exclusively from Corti Brothers

Corti Brothers has long waited to offer Consorcio tuna to our customers. Now you can experience the “caviar” of tuna never before seen in our market.

More than a revelation in Tuna, Consorcio is the highest quality available. It is not for every day use. But, for those special times when a unique product is called for, Consorcio is the answer. More about Consorcio Tuna...

Sigri Estate Peaberry Coffee at Corti Brothers  New Guinea's Sigri   Estate Peaberry Coffee 
 Back in Stock! 

Peaberries are simply the best - the most intense, the most flavorful. With twice the nutrient load of normal coffee, these highly prized beans produce a rich chocolatey flavor and a sweet mellow taste.

From a world class estate, Corti's peaberries are handpicked and inspected, yielding only the highest quality beans. After a 5 year hiatus, Corti Brothers Sigri Estate Peaberry Coffee is back!

Rediscover the fulfillment of home brewed coffee. More about Sigri Estate Peaberry Coffee...

What is genuine Aceto Balsamico Tradizional Balsamic Vinegar?

Balsamic Vinegar that's been aged for 10, 15, 30, 50 or 100 years. Real Balsamic Vinegar is aged in a series of different wood casks - chestnut, mulberry, oak, cherry, acacia, ash and sometimes juniper. Each different wood imparts a special character all it's own, creating an amalgam of scents and flavors.

Balsamic vinegar is generally used cut with normal vinegar for salads. A few drops on grilled meats puts it into use as a condiment. Due to it’s sweet/sharp character, sauces are improved by using it.

Strawberries with a few drops of Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale are more perfumed and fragrant. Sprinkled on chips of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, it enhances a cheese course.

Sipped in tiny glasses, it becomes a refreshing digestif. It is not a condiment for everyday use, but does improve the fragrancy and flavor of everything it can be used with.
More about Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale Balsamic Vinegar...

Corti Brothers 2004 Oregon Light Table Wine HPO Corti Brothers 2004 Oregon Light Table Wine HPO 

Corti Brothers 2004 HPO wine is an early muscat variety named for the variety's creator, Harold Paul Olmo, the 97 year old emeritus professor of viticulture at the University of California, Davis.

Low in alcohol, 6%, scented with the musky perfume of nutmeg, pear, and white peaches, it has lively acidity and a slight sparkle that provides both palate refreshment and piquancy. More about Corti Brothers 2004 Oregon Light Table Wine...


XSR 120 Finest White Port Wine XSR 120 Finest White Port Wine  This is a wine which we sell under its lodge lot number XSR 120.

There are but 16 pipes of this wine. Not much is sold. In fact we are the only customer. It is a wonderful old wine, made just like red port, but from white grapes.

Golden in color, with just a hint of amber and a rich unctuous body and aged fragrance, XSR 120 is a wine once tasted not easily forgotten.

A sweet white port-normally white port is made as a dryish wine-XSR120 is perfect for dessert or as dessert. Served just slightly cool, it is a simply delicious vinous treat.  More about XSR 120 Finest White Port...

This salt is the counterpart of the Vignalta Salt. This is NOT cooking salt, but finishing salt. This is the salt to use on wonderful fresh tomatoes, either just sliced or as a bruschetta topping.

I can think of nothing better than the Oshima Blue Label Salt on sun warmed, fragrant, ripe tomatoes just sliced, sprinkled with some fresh basil and drizzled with excellent oil like the Mancianti Affiorato.

Adding some very fresh mozzarella to make this a Caprese salad is up to you. But Oshima Blue Label Salt, made by shallow pan dehydration in a glass hot house using Pacific Ocean water, is truly remarkable. Arguments continue over salt. Is it just salt?

Try Oshima Blue Label Salt and you will quickly see that not all salts are the same. Make the most of your summer vegetables and treat yourself to Oshima Blue Label Salt. You deserve it! More about Oshima Blue and Red Label Salts...

 Luxardo   Maraschino   Cherries 

The best “maraschino” cherry made.

Not your flavorless Royal Anne white cherry pitted and dyed red, but sour marasca cherries in thick syrup made of marasca cherry juice and sugar.

Darker and more flavorful than maraschino cherries...more
 The Summer Newsletter is now online. 

  Darrell Corti in 
 the News 

Darrell "at a loss for words?" See the Sacramento Bee for the full story.

Highlights and honorees - read more at SF Gate.


For the full story, see Mike Dunne's article at the Sacramento Bee.


Fourteen, fifteen, even sixteen percent. Where will it end? Associated Press has the story.
Two Gallos, a Grgich and a legend in a wine shop - it's the makings of this year's class for the Vintners Hall of Fame. See the full article in SF Gate.


Corti's own Rick Mindermann is OodleboxTV's "Good
Taste Guy"

After almost 3 decades at Corti Brothers, Rick knows a thing or two about food.

OodleboxTV doesn't miss a trick, and filmed Rick making a killer dish of spaghetti and meatballs. Stay tuned - more films are in the works.



Leading this year's Hall of Fame inductees are Ernest & Julio Gallo ... and Sacramento wine merchant and forager supreme, Darrell Corti...full article at Reuters



Darrell Corti, the outspoken Sacramento wine merchant, speaks to an audience of California winegrape growers on some of the problems - and opportunities - of the California wine industry...full article at Appellation America


Darrell Corti discusses wine in the SF Chronicle...


Corti Brothers is a specialty foods and gourmet grocery store located in Sacramento, Ca.

In business since 1947, we specialize in rare and unique gourmet foods and fine wines from around the world.
What Others are Saying about Corti Brothers...


 Shoyu direct from Japan 

Goyogura Shoya is produced in a special, red lacquered plant on the site of the Kikkoman facility just outside Tokyo.   It is here that a special soy sauce is produced for the Emperor of Japan's table. 

Goyogura is fermented only from Japanese soy beans, wheat, and salt and bottled after a year's production cycle. 

Slightly thicker and definitely more intensely flavored than the normal soy sauce, it is an Imperial Household product.  Corti Brothers offers it, though it is rarely seen in even the most prestigious stores in Japan.
More about Goyogura Shoyu Soy Sauce....

On this same trip, I discovered a little known "soy" sauce, rare even in Japan. This is "Uoshoyu" or "Shotturu" which is Japan's original flavoring sauce known as fish shoyu.

Shotturu is produced by Semba Zenjiro Shouten from a small, fatty, white fleshed fish called Hatahata (Arctoscopus japonicus) prevalent in the cold water off Akita prefecture in the north end of Japan, now the only area producing this seasoning.

Shotturu, adds a wonderful complexity to dishes when used in cooking or as a dipping sauce. It can be added as an ingredient... 
More about Shotturu "Uoshoyu" Soy Sauce ...

Kanro Shoyu is the rarest. It is a double fermented (saishikomi) shoyu which originated in Yanai city, Yamaguchi prefecture.

It is thick, intense with a deep creamy character, less persistent than the shiro shoyu. It is much prized in the cooking of Kyoto and for use with sushi and sashimi. Known as "sweet dew" it is not well known even in Japan.

One excellent way of using the various soy sauces is a delicious, yet simple first course starting with a small block of very good chilled "silken" tofu (kinogoshi) with good shoyu on one side and extra virgin olive oil on the other.  More about Kanro Shoyu Soy Sauce


 What Corti's Website Is and Is Not

Our website showcases some of the more interesting new items in our store. Many are from previous newsletters - items handpicked by food and wine expert Darrell Corti.

Our website is not an online catalog of everything in our store. Our website has a tiny, tiny fraction only of what is available!

If you don't see what you are looking for, please call us at 800-509-3663 or 916-736-3800. We'll be glad to help!

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