Howell Mountain Bud Break Tasting: March 23, San Francisco. Regular readers know that I’m in the habit of plugging public wine tasting events for the sole reason that they are among the best ways to learn. Educating your palate through the comparative tasting of 40, 50, or 70 wines over the course of several hours has no equal when it comes to helping you put your finger on a grape variety, a region, or a style of winemaking. Perhaps the most helpful of such tastings are those that provide a large number of wines of a similar type or kind. Most of the time, such tastings are centered…