San Francisco Wine Tours News for 01/25/2010



Tohu Pinot Noir 2007 Top 100 Wine Spectator (Scoop.co.nz)
Tohus 2007 Pinot Noir has been listed in Wine Spectators Top 100 Wines for 2009. Earlier in 09 the Tohu Pinot Noir received an outstanding 91 points...

Beginner's Guide to WIne: Different Wines for Different Tastes
Many people love wine, but don't know anything about the difference between a red or a white, a Merlot or a Chardonnay, here's a guide to help decide which to buy...

Stop Burying The Lede, Blood Into Wine Trailer! - Trailer - Videogum
Blood Into Wine trailer, you guys: Oh, OK. This appears to be a relatively earnest documentary about Arizona wine production, following the recent trend of movies for and about wine enthusiasts, like Sideways, and Bottle Shock. Neat!..

Secretive EURLord of Wine Made Italys Best White: John Mariani (Bloomberg)
Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Ive been drinking wine with pleasure for a very long time and the jaw-dropping moments have been few and far between. Sometimes the wines I expected little of proved to be a revelation, which was the case when I had my first sip of Edoardo Valentinis Trebbiano dAbruzzo 30 years ago at a seafood restaurant in Italy...

Wine legislation on the table again (The Palladium-Times)
After being rejected by the New York State Legislature last year, Gov. David Paterson once again proposed legislation Tuesday to permit the sale of wine in grocery stores in his 2010-11 Executive Budget...

wine: A philosophical-historical Wine tasting question
My question to you is, at the big Beaujolias bash of, oh, 1804, (or 1404) how do you think a person who had never tasted, seen, or even heard of a banana have described the aftertaste of the wine? ...

Meat pies: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog
So today, instead of focusing on the current troubles of the Aussie wine biz, let's pay homage to Australian, erm, cuisine by thinking about pairing up the iconic dish, the meat pie. The hand sized-pie is made of a variety of meats ...

Wine Tasting Rebooted | The Food Section - Food News, Recipes, and .
Josh Friedland's award-winning food blog about all things gastronomical, from recipes to food and restaurant news, travel, culinary products, books, and events...

Drink Great Wine on a Budget | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance .
Unless you're a real wine aficionado, you probably lack the confidence to know which of those bottles of wine on-sale at the local BevMo are a bargain and which deserve the appellation, two-buck-chuck. That's why we've asked two Master ...

Carlisle country store hosts towns first ever wine tasting (Concord Journal)
Larry Bearfield, owner of Fern's Country Store inCarlisle, had stepped up to the serving station at a wine tasting his store hosted Saturday afternoon. He was filling in for Tom Viers, the beer and wine specialist at Ferns, who took a break from uncorking Chilean wines from the LaPostolle winery. EURWeve got to teach Larry how to pour,EUR said Veirs, surrounded by racks of wines and chatty ...

WTF? Sarah Palin Keynote Speaker for Wine & Spirits Wholesalers .
Slate.com's Mike Steinberger is confused, and so am I. Of late he received an email touting Sarah Palin as the keynote speaker for the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WASA) convention EUR to be held this April in Las Vegas. ...

West New York plans to allow wine and beer in restaurants without liquor licenses (The Jersey Journal)
The West New York Board of Commissioners introduced an ordinance that would allow for the consumption of wine and beer at retail establishments that don't have liquor licenses, according to The Jersey Journal...

Pillars of SA Wine | Pendock Uncorked
Angela Llloyd, Grande Dame of SA wine writing, despaired earlier this month of choosing 200 wineries EURworthy of representing the best of South Africa.EUR..

Quiz: Food and wine (Stuff)
Are you a foodie? Do you know your wine? Test your knowledge with the food and wine quiz...

Govs grocery list includes wine (Queens Courier)
From the Finger Lakes to the North Fork, New York State is home to more than 1,000 grape growers and nearly 300 wineries. So it should come as no surprise that Governor David Paterson is betting on bottles of wine to help rescue his state from its fiscal stupor EUR again...

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...

College Sports: Food-friendly sherry is a wine lover's delight (Inside Bay Area)
You may know it as grandma's tipple, but in its native Spain, sherry is the drink of cigar-smoking, macho men. In fact, in standing-room-only tapas bars, it is the food wine of choice in all its seven styles, from the driest, briny fino to the sweetest, nutty pedro ximenez...

Market tendencies and wine trends to be focus point at 2010 ProWein (South African Wine News)
ProWein, the world's most internationally attended trade fair in the wine and spirits sector, is taking this year from the 21st to the 23 of March 2010...

Venison Shank Casserole - with red wine and juniper berries
A gorgeously rich casserole with with mushrooms, carrots, juniper berries, loads of wine and a subtle gamey taste. Our ...

Bigger Than Your Head Wine of the Week
Last year I enjoyed several products from Western Australia's Ad Lib label, including the EURTree HuggerEUR No Oak Chardonnay 2008 and the EURWallflowerEUR Riesling 2008, both listed among my EUR25 Great Wine Bargains of 2009.EUR ...



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