San Francisco Wine Tours News for 01/03/2010



What is a wine writer? | Pendock Uncorked
Wine writing must be in worse shape than I thought given the recent rash of features on oenography (as Andrew Jefford, probably the most intellectual...

I Love French Wine And Food EUR A Red Beaujolais
If you are looking for fine French wine and food, consider the Beaujolais region of southeastern France. You may find a bargain, and I hope that youll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local red ...

Every wine is a blend | Pendock Uncorked
Adjectives are often physically based: Stephen King is a master of spine-tingling terror while the late Grande Roche chef Frank Zlomke made a mouth-wateringly...

Consummate wine host Tita Trillo hosts birthday dinner with Kendall Jacksons Jeff Cook (Manila Bulletin)
It was one of those lovely and intimate wine pairing dinners, hosted by the very genteel and well-liked Tita Trillo. Tita has hosted a few wine events this year, but this time around, it was on the occasion of her birthday...

Wine book offers glass half full (The Post and Courier)
LIQUID MEMORY: Why Wine Matters. By Jonathan Nossiter. Farrar, Straus. 262 pages. $26...

With Hollywood as its customer, the Wine Seller moves to expand .
When a Hollywood production company wanted to deliver a bottle of 2003 Silver Oak Cabernet to crew members working on a film in the Ann Arbor area last summer, they called The Wine Seller. The store wrapped the $113 bottle of California ...

Man arrested for wine store robbery (6abc Philadelphia)
A robbery suspect is in custody after stealing thousands of dollars from a wine shop...

EURIT'S THE WINE, NOT THE BOTTLEEUR OR WHY THE NEW APPLE iTABLET IS .
As I said, the Apple iTablet is coming and I am not so sure that newspaper newsrooms are ready for this a challenge that, in my view, is really a great...

On the bottle: serious wine for the new year (Times Online)
My resolve and my advice is to struggle on as normal. If a biopsy looms, heres some wine that will ease the pain..

Fischer promotes Aussie wine in Rome (Herald Sun)
AUSTRALIAN ambassador to the Holy See Tim Fischer is helping boost the profile of Australian wine overseas...

Fundraising, foundations and fine wine (The Morning Call)
The Children's Home of Easton and the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society held hosted the third annual Wine Auction and Gala before the holidays, but it was too much for just one night...

Karen Cheng's Snippets of Life Blog Archive Pears In Red Wine
Alternatives are that after the pears are cooked, you can marinate the pears in the cooling wine sauce overnight to increase the red colour, before re-warming to serve. To add more zing to the wine, you can also add orange rind, cloves, ...

A Compact Wine Refrigerator Provides The Ideal Wine Temperature .
If you're short on space but have a growing wine collection a compact wine refrigerator is the ideal way to store it. With capacities ranging from eight bottles...

Dolcetto is a wine of modesty (San Francisco Chronicle)
Dolcetto is a wine of modesty, the most humble of the three major red grapes of Italy's Piedmont (Nebbiolo and Barbera being the other two). Yet winemakers there don't get by on Barolo and Barbaresco alone. Early-ripening and plump with fruit, they make...

Paris Tour d'Argent auctions wine, cognac from famed cellar .
Paris' most famous restaurant, the Tour d'Argent, on Monday auctioned off thousands of bottles of the finest wine in order to make space for new bottles in its vast four-century-old cellar. The high point in the auction was the sale of ...

Wine of the Week: Merlot - Slashfood
Marco Veringa, flickr Merlot is a red-wine grape grown in many vino regions, including France (where it's the most widely planted grape for Bordeau...

Wine from a drinking virtuoso (Washington Post)
R.W. Apple's wife prepares to auction fabled correspondent's wine collection, a transaction freighted with nostalgia. J. Freedom du Lac..

Changing the New Zealand Wine World! (Scoop.co.nz)
Presenter of Wine Vault TV (WVTV), Jayson Bryant, plans to change the way the world see New Zealand wine. Initially shunned by the old guard wine community for not being in the industry long enough Jayson decided that enough was enough and, with the Kiwi ...

Top Stories of '09: Wine sales drop off (Napa Valley Register)
As many wineries discovered in 2009, people still drink wine during bad economic times. They just wont pay top dollar...

River City Food and Wine: Wine Roundup
Wine Roundup. During the period between Thanksgiving and New Years we had the opportunity to enjoy a variety of nice wines from diverse sources. From the Owen Roe Winery. The blend is as follows EUR 22% Sangiovese; 20% Zinfandel; ...



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