San Francisco Wine Tours News for 01/24/2010



City officials get primer on liquor licenses, say theres need for more beer/wine permits (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
College Street CafĂ & Grille wants to expand its hours to serve dinner, but without a license to serve beer and wine, Owner Eric Daley says the restaurant likely couldnt turn a profit...

Wineries and wine lovers react to Paterson's proposal (News 10 Now Syracuse)
The ninth annual Wine on Ice wrapped up in Elmira Saturday with hundreds of wine enthusiasts filling up First Arena. To buy wine in the state right now, you either have to visit wineries, stop at the local liquor store, or head to events like this...

River Road - not so secret wine tasting (San Francisco Chronicle)
If John Steinbeck were alive today, he'd surely be writing "Winery Row." It would be set not among Carmel Valley's coterie of precious tasting rooms, but in his very own "Valley of the World." Until recently, River Road, following the Salinas River between. John Steinbeck - River Road Vineyards - Coterie Cellars - United States - Wine..

Winter Wine Festival (Portsmouth Herald)
Guests enjoyed the opening of the 6th annual Winter Wine Festival Friday, Jan. 15, at the Wentworth by the Sea in New Castle. The festival continues until February 27 and includes multi-course wine dinners from local chefs and internationally renowned...

Wine Appreciation, Made Easier (New York Times)
A group of independent experts and consultants in New Jersey make it their business to help consumers learn how to better enjoy their wine...

Making Wine Illegal To Sell In Grocery Stores Hurts The State .
Costco, which operates on a membership fee basis like Sam's Club, sells a broad range of consumer products as well as groceries, and is reportedly the nation's largest wine dealer. But unlike the surrounding southern states of North ...

On the Wine Trail in Italy: The Italian Wine <i>Guy</i> Diet
So I started on the Italian Wine Guy Diet. 10 weeks later and 20 pounds lighter, I look back and wonder why I took so many years procrastinating over it. Yes, it was hard work, and no, it isn't finished. But now I look at food and wine ...

Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog » Drinking Sacramental Wine
Sacramental wine may be this province's most glorious loophole. This sacred tipple, which is no different from regular wine -EUR it isn't blessed or grown on holy land or anything like that -EUR is hardly tainted by the profane hand of ...

The Perfect Portable Wine Carafe
Klean Kanteen Wine Karafes The Wine Karafe bottle looks surprisingly small but can, in fact, hold an entire 750mL of wine -- its capacity is actually 800mL. This is perfect for picnics in areas where glass is prohibited or for sneaking ...

SYLVIA RECTOR: Presenting a wine bottle is a disappearing courtesy (Detroit Free Press)
How long has it been since you ordered a glass of wine in a restaurant and had your server bring the bottle to your table, pour a little for you to taste and then finish pouring your glass as you watched? If you think the practice is disappearing, you're right...

French Wine Appraisal
Wine appraisal is the process of appraising or deciding on the value of a particular wine by a wine expert. Wine appraisal or wine evaluation, as it is generally called, has often been considered as a snobbish activity but in reality, ...

Breakaway wine group aims to make a name for NZ fine wine (TVNZ)
A breakaway wine group is hoping to use its marketing force to establish its wines in upmarket, niche markets overseas..

Wine is a gift of flavor, knowledge (Today's News-Herald)
(ARA) - Is there a person on your Valentine's Day list who has always wanted to become a little more cultured about wine? Perhaps he or she has attended several wine tasting events to sample different styles - just to pique his or her interest even more...

Plum wine
I have just been given a ****load of plums and I would like to make some plum wine. I have found many different recipes by searching on Google„˘, but...

Winter Wine Festival | SeacoastOnline.com
Guests enjoyed the opening of the 6th annual Winter Wine Festival Friday, Jan. 15, at the Wentworth by the Sea in New Castle. The festival continues until February 27 and includes multi-course wine dinners from local chefs and ...

sidewalk shoes: Weekend Wine Reviews #14
Sofia, Blanc de Blanes, California 2007, Francis Coppola. $11.40This was our New Year's Even wine instead of Champagne. We say: Sweet, fruity, almost like a sparkling gewurztraminer. Buy again: Yes, if we are in the mood for a sparkling ...

Chateau Lafite 1982 Fetches $46,700 at Hong Kong Wine Auction (Bloomberg)
Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- A 6-liter bottle of Chateau Lafite 1982 fetched HK$363,000 ($46,700), nearly twice its presale high estimate, at a sold-out wine auction in Hong Kong as the quest for rarity and inflation concerns drove prices higher...

UT3 inder wine ALMOST works. (11.1) - openSUSE Forums
I installed wine from: /repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.1/ .and UT3 (unreal tournament 3) installed and runs just fine!!! (The wine version...

CellarTracker: a new model for wine reviews? (San Francisco Chronicle)
We may have found wine's new killer app. The realization came last month, when Jancis Robinson announced that she would let readers access her reviews via CellarTracker. Launched in 2004, CellarTracker (cellartracker.com) has become a powerful clearinghouse...

Marketing Lessons From a Good Bottle of Wine | The Marketing Blog
I think there are a few things that move someone through a purchase decision process in the wine market. I'm no wine expert and quite honestly know little about "good wine" but can certainly tell you what marketing strategies encourage ...



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