San Francisco Wine Tours News for 04/13/2009



The Food Section: Wine on the Web
Wall Street Journal wine columnists Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher survey the world of wine web sites and come away unimpressed. Posted by Josh Friedland on Apr 13, 2009 in Appetizers, Drink | Link | | Print this page | Share This ...

Wine Island Included In Restoration Plan - New Orleans News Story .
HOUMA, La. -- Wine Island has been added to a $125 million federal plan aimed at restoring Terrebonne Parish's barrier islands. Monday, April 13, 2009...

Police: St. Petersburg woman says alcoholism fueled wine grab at Sweetbay (St. Petersburg Times)
ST. PETERSBURG -- A 56-year-old woman who apparently could not wait 50 minutes for the legal sale of alcohol to begin in Pinellas County on Sunday is charged with stealing $12.99 in wine and resisting a Sweetbay employee's attempts to...

Ancient Egyptians used wine as medicine (Daily Telegraph)
Ancient Egyptians were turning wine into medicine 5000 years ago new research has shown...

Munson Wine Trail honors 1800s viticulturist (Greater Houston Weekly)
The MUNSON WINE TRAIL comprises a dozen north Texas wineries to create a convenient Texas wine-tasting experience...

Paris Hilton Will Remain As Wine Spokesperson - Starpulse .
The maker of a sparkling wine promoted by Paris Hilton has refuted reports he is set to axe the heiress as his brand spokesperson...

Wine Shipping Measure Passes Senate (News Channel 5 Nashville)
A proposal to allow Tennessee consumers to have wine shipped directly to their homes has passed the Senate...

Wine-bar plan riles some Pleasant Ridge residents (Detroit Free Press)
A proposal to turn a small office building Pleasant Ridge into a wine bar has pitted the would-be business owner against residents in a town that has been dry since its founding in 1928...

New York Pinot Noir - Wine of the Week - Slashfood
The wine was beautiful -- bright, clean, and full of cranberries, strawberries, and raspberries. Without a lot of earthy aromas that define Burgundy, the wine still really spoke of the Pinot Noir varietal. It was so fruity that it it ...

Herbal wine, just the thing for ailing pharoahs | Euro News 24
12:53 WASHINGTON - When great-grandma took a nip of the elderberry wine for medicinal purposes, she was following a tradition that goes back thousands of years. Indeed, researchers say they have found evidence that the Egyptians spiked ...

Hoosier Wines on Parade : Hoosier Wine Cellar | Indiana wines and .
We are less than two weeks away from one of the biggest wine events in Indiana dedicated exclusively to wines produced in the state. The 7th Annual Indiana Wine Fair, scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, September 25, will attract ...

Wine and Dumplings: An Overlooked Match? - Travel Blog - World Hum
When I'm out for Chinese food, I don't think twice about my drink order: it's almost always a Tsingtao. But beer doesn't have to be the default accompaniment every time you pick up chopsticks...

Wine of the Week: Robert Mondavi Private Selection Riesling 2007 .
The 2007 Mondavi Private Selection Riesling brings an easy-going, fruit-filled white wine to the table. There are plenty of sweet floral aromas on the nose and ripe juicy peach with a splash of honey, green apple and a touch of citrus ...

'Egyptians used wine as medicine' (Channel 4)
Ancient Egyptians were turning wine into medicine 5,000 years ago, new research has shown. A wide range of herbs were used to give wine medicinal properties, experts found...

Pharoah's Wine Jar Yields Medicinal Secrets (ABC 7 El Paso)
By Ed Edelson , HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- The old adage, "take a glass of wine for thy stomach's sake," may have been heeded more than...

Herbal wine, just the thing for ailing pharoahs (AP via Yahoo! News)
When great-grandma took a nip of the elderberry wine "for medicinal purposes," she was following a tradition that goes back thousands of years...

Pharoah's Wine Jar Yields Medicinal Secrets (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
MONDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- The old adage, "take a glass of wine for thy stomach's sake," may have been heeded more than 5,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, archaeologists report...

LENNDEVOURS: Wine Importer Neal Rosenthal on Filtration
By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Correspondent After the recent discussion regarding the effects of filtration on wine, I contacted wine importer Neal Rosenthal for his thoughts. Over the past three decades Rosenthal has been a leading ...

World wine consumption falls (South African Wine News)
Shun that bottle and save your euros: That's what French and Italians are saying as the recession cuts into wine consumption in traditional lands of the vine...

Pharoah's Wine Jar Yields Medicinal Secrets - Drugs.com MedNews
The tradition of adding herbs to wine seems to have continued throughout early Egyptian history. A more recent wine jar, found in southern Egypt and traced to the 4th to 6th centuries A.D., was also laced with pine resin and rosemary, ...



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