San Francisco Wine Tours News for 03/24/2010



New Wine Shops in New York Put Patrons at Ease (New York Times)
Merchants who are passionate about wine are helping to extend and improve the wine culture...

Baboons go ape over S. Africas wine crop (MSNBC)
Largely undeterred by electric fences, hundreds of wild baboons are terrorizing South Africa's prized wine country, gobbling up to ripe, succulent grapes ready for harvesting...

Bill would allow direct wine shipments in NJ (Asbury Park Press)
TRENTON EUR A bill allowing wine to be shipped directly to customers has been approved by the New Jersey Senate...

Fine wine merchants merge
London based fine wine merchant Goedhuis & Co has bought Suffolk based David Roberts Domaines. Â Founder of the newly acquired company and former buying director at Berry Brothers & Rudd, David Roberts MW, will become a director...

Chablis maker chides trend for chilled, young wine (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Daniel-Etienne Defaix still adheres to the motto of the Cistercian monks who planted the vines on the slopes of this northern Burgundy village in the Middle Ages: Wine is only good when it ages well...

Brooklynguy's Wine and Food Blog: How to Buy Excellent Cheap Wine
Is it possible to drink great wine on a daily basis if you're not rich? I'm talking about wines that cost between $8 and $12 a bottle? I think it it is possible, yes. I've been thinking about this lately because my wine buying budget ...

Pinot Noir - Wine of the Week - Slashfood
Photo: ourcommon, Flickr As the weather warms up, we can at last turn our heads to lighter-bodied reds. Pinot Noir is an excellent example. The fil...

Baboons Gobble Grapes in South African Wine Region (ABC News)
For South African baboons who gobble pinot noir grapes, 2010 is a very good year South African wine - Pinot noir - Wine - South Africa - Recreation..

Carbon-dating wine to sniff out fakes - Physics Today News Picks
EURThe problem goes beyond ordinary consumers being overcharged for a bottle of expensive wine of a famous winery with a great year listed on the label,EUR Jones pointed out. EURConnoisseurs collect vintage wines and prices have soared with ...

Larger-than-life wine collection nets $1.2 million (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Lloyd Flatt was a man who lived life large and had a passion for large bottles of wine. One of those bottles - a six-liter Methuselah of Romanee Conti 1976 sold for $42,350 at Sotheby's New York more than double its presale estimate...

Walgreens getting more food, wine, electronics - Chicago Breaking .
The Deerfield-based company is adding more food and wine, expanding its beauty aisles, and preparing to add electronics this summer. The retailer is also lowering the heights of shelves and installing bigger and more colorful signs to ...

Baboons gobble grapes in South African wine region (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Baboons, it seems, prefer pinot noir. They also like a nice chardonnay. Largely undeterred by electric fences, hundreds of wild baboons in South Africa's prized wine country are finding the vineyards of ripe, succulent grapes to be an "absolute bonanza," said Justin O'Riain of the University of Cape Town...

Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog: Handicapping the James Beard .
I'm always interested in Awards. I like Awards. I think they have meaning when meaningful deliberation is put into choosing who should be nominated for and given an award. The James Beard Awards have for many years been recognized as...

Wine calendar: March 24-27
Meet one of seven winemakers at dinners around San Antonio...

Wine Dinner with Italian F1 Lotus driver Jarno Trulli (Leader Community Newspapers)
This is a very special event at RACV City Club in Melbourne: a beautiful 4 course wine dinner with Lotus F1 driver Jarno Trulli. Dont miss this opportunity to get up and personal with him, discover what is behind the driver and enjoy one of his greatest passions: wines...

Fashion, Food, Wine, Golf, Music and Art @ Coachella Valley .
The Fifth Annual Fashion Week El Paseo will unfold in Palm Desert with a delectable new addition: Fashion Food & Wine. The venture will pair everyone's favorite passions EUR seeing the best in fashion design and enjoying impeccably ...

Tasty Lamb at V9 Wine Bar and Restaurant, Sofitel Bangkok Silom (Thaipr.net)
Throughout the month of April, V9 Wine Bar and Restaurant at Sofitel Bangkok Silom, brings EURlambEUR, one of the best well-known meats from around the globe, to tantalize you. Enjoy a tender juicy meat f..

Wine Blogging Wednesday #67: Seeing Red For The First Time | 1 .
Today marks the 67th (!) edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, and I'm honored to be hosting the event again. For those playing along at home, the gist...

New Wine Shops in New York Keep Patrons at Ease (New York Times)
Merchants who are passionate about wine are helping to extend and improve the wine culture in the United States...

Baboons: The wine connoisseurs of the animal kingdom | L.A. .
JOHANNESBURG EUR Baboons, it seems, prefer Pinot Noir. They also like a nice Chardonnay. Largely undeterred by electric fences, hundreds of wild baboons in South Africa's prized wine country are finding the vineyards of succulent ripe ...



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