Restaurants, SFO, Napa Sonoma

[Jeff Grossman/NYC]

Not much of secret... it was #5 on the drop-down list of suggestions (in Google) if you start typing "Sardine Fac...":
http://sardinefactory.com/drinkWineList.html

It is current as of 16 months ago, which is unpromising.

[Max Hauser]

Re Sardine Factory, my references were to 10 and 20 years ago. The restaurant itself has never been a secret, but those exquisite well-chosen Dujac village wines and others like them at below-market prices were not in huge supply, and would doubtless have sold out sooner, had people chattered away online indiscreetly about them at the time.