San Francisco Wine Tours News for 01/17/2010



The Shotgun: Wine Musings From 2010
Also, there is the troubling impact of circumstance, context or backdrop and the influence that the time, the place and the company have on your impression of a wine. Or at least that's the case with me. If I drink a wine at sunset on ...

Dave Barry's Blog: TODAY'S TIP ON WHERE TO STORE WINE
Boxed wine??? A real man would have used a lovely bottled hardy red. Posted by: Bnatural | January 17, 2010 at 01:46 PM. Suuurrreeee; everybody has a camera mounted in a concrete block, shielded by bullet proof glass. ...

JOST A MON: Wine Tasting
Most recently, I went to the Haymarket Hotel near Piccadilly where a Wine Investment Challenge was held under the aegis of one of our brokers. This was organised in the basement of the hotel right by the swimming pool, which occasioned ...

England Beats France In Sparkling Wine!: Pop The Corks! English .
It cannot be called Champagne but English sparkling wine seems to go down just as well!..

LCBO looking at tightening rules for import, sales of church wine (CNews)
OTTAWA - Ontario's liquor agency is losing faith in the way churches buy their sacramental wine in the province...

Cancer charity tells wine drinkers to go for lower-strength option (Yorkshire Post)
Wine drinkers could cut their risk of developing bowel cancer by switching to a lower-alcohol alternative, says a cancer charity...

Full Bottles to Light Pours: A Spot for Wine Lovers (New York Times)
The cooking of Pierre Rougey is just one of the reasons to applaud Barrique Kitchen and Wine Bar, in Suffolk County. The wine is another...

ZAP wine festival comes to SF Jan. 28-30 (San Francisco Chronicle)
ZAP is back at San Francisco's Fort Mason and Intercontinental Hotel, Jan. 28-30. The Zinfandel Advocates & Producers Festival celebrates its 19th year with three days of tastings, wine pairings and seminars. Beverly Gannon, chef of Maui's Hali'imaile General...

Hidden joys of dessert wine (Stuff)
In the latest (2009) edition of his indispensable Buyer's Guide to New Zealand Wines , Michael Cooper notes the: our sweet white wines (often called dessert wines) are hardly taking the world by storm, accounting for only 0.03 per cent of our wine exports...

Government considers raising tax on wine, beer (thewest.com.au)
An overhaul of Australia's complex alcohol tax regime being considered by the Federal Government would raise the price of wine and full-strength beer but, controversially, lower the price of alcopops...

KNCT Wine Classic offers a sampling of wine from around the world (Killeen Daily Herald)
Under dim lights, more than 500 people in suits and cocktail dresses sipped wine and nibbled on hors d'oeuvres Saturday evening during the second annual KNCT Wine Classic...

Useful origami (and wine bottles) | Physics Stop
Now find a cork (what used to go in the top of wine bottles before screwcaps). Squeeze it on the ends. It gets thinner.That's pretty unusual in materials. Cork has a negative Poisson ratio - the Poisson ratio describes the negative of ...

Fine wine: Seniors stay young by helping others (The Times and Democrat)
EURFine wine EUR theyre my fine wine,EUR said Agnes Glover, executive director of Cooperative Church Ministries of Orangeburg. EURYou know, wine just gets better as it ages.EUR Glover was speaking of Katherine EURKayEUR Estees Hughes and Roy Mikels, her two EURright armsEUR at CCMO, who have aged well through 22 years of volunteering...

New Tax Regime to Raise Wine and Beer Prices | TopNews New Zealand
The federal government is considering raising the price of wine and full-strength beer under the overhaul of Australia's complex alcohol tax regime. The change is expected to boost the budget bottom line by $2.9 billion over four years. ...

CALAIS Winery in Deep Ellum launches wine club | www.pegasusnews .
CALAIS Winery in Deep Ellum has launched a Wine Club. Every two months, wine club members get two bottles of CALAIS Wines for a flat fee of $29.99 regardless of the price of the bottles. Wines currently range from $16.63 to $24.94. ...

Wine for Haiti | My Wine Education
Wine lovers have figured out a way to donate what we hope is a large amount of money to the American Red Cross, earmarked for use in Haiti. Palate Press (to...

Wine glass time keeper - Hack a Day
The glass portion is a combination of two wine glasses. He removed the stems, ground the bottoms flat, then drilled holes to allow the sand to pass. He used plumbers putty around the top of the upturned reservoir to create a temporary ...

The best way to learn about wine
There's one book that is a hands-down absolutely fabulous wine course on paper. I ignored it for ten years, and I could kick myself. Find out why you don't want to make the same mistake...

Warwick Wine Estate launches 'The Gourmet Picnic' experience (South African Wine News)
Warwick, the award-winning Stellenbosch Wine Estate, is proud to announce the official launch of their Warwick 'Gourmet Picnic' Experience: an epicurean initiative in which Warwick partners with the inimitable Chef, Bruce Robertson...

Crab & Wine Days: Chefs, celebs & competitions (The Ukiah Daily Journal)
Wine Notes by Heidi Cusick Dickerson Seventeen Mendocino chefs prepare aromatic and sizzling Dungeness crabcakes to taste with Mendocino wines under a giant tent next Saturday in Fort Bragg...



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