San Francisco Wine Tours News for 04/14/2009



'Queer Eye wine guru Ted Allen: Be curious and ask questions (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Ted Allen wants to know your questions about wine, and if theyre good enough, you might get to have dinner with him...

LENNDEVOURS: Wine Dinners: Showcases or Money-Makers?
By Lenn Thompson, Editor and Publisher A couple of weeks ago, Nena and I had the pleasure of attending a wine dinner at Mirabelle Tavern, featuring the wines of Lenz Winery. It's always a pleasure to see Lenz's winemaker, Eric...

Club earns wine award (Island Packet)
Sea Pines Country Club recently received an Award of Merit from the International Wine Society of th..

Pharoah's Wine Jar Yields Medicinal Secrets (MedicineNet.com)
Title: Pharoah's Wine Jar Yields Medicinal Secrets Category: Health News Created: 4/14/2009 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/14/2009..

The carbon footprint of wine in National Geographic | Dr Vino's .
A spirited wine blog with independent picks for value vino, wine maps and commentary...

Wine shipping measure passes Tennessee Senate (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
A proposal to allow Tennessee consumers to have wine shipped directly to their homes passed the Senate 22-8 Monday evening...

2009 Portland Indie Wine Festival: May 2 | Win Tickets « Portland .
Join 40 craft wineries as they gather in the Northwest Industrial District for the 5th annual Portland Indie Wine Festival. Be there as these tiny producers uncork their labors of the love and pour out their passion for wine-loving ...

Upcycling my wine corks | green LA girl
No, I didn't count them -- but these collected wine corks were really starting to take up too much space in my apartment. I was collecting them in individual...

Crisis spurs chase for new wine markets | Stuff.co.nz
Winegrowers are pushing into new markets as the financial crisis forces them to buffer the effects of New Zealand and European wine drinkers downing fewer bottles, falling prices and over-supply in the Australian market. ...

Craftzine.com blog : Flashback: Fig Wine
When folks think of wine, most often grapes come to mind. Time to expand the horizons with this week's Flashback feature from CRAFT Volume 06: Fig Wine by Alastair Bland. Alastair has written several how-tos for CRAFT, most of...

Napa Valley Wine Train | Wheres the Travel Answer Man
You can enjoy the breathtaking Napa Valley by tasting varieties of renowned wines by traveling in the Napa Valley Wine Train. At the McKinstry Street Station in Napa, the train beings its journey. It is a three hours train trip through ...

The Losh Cause EUR Spanish wine in flux: Beverage News & Comment
The Spanish wine industry is facing long overdue restructuring under the reforms of EU wine subsidies, while sales are being hit at home and abroad by the recession. Although there has been some growth in exports, this has been mainly ...

Wine Bar Plan Un-Corking Controversy (FOX 2 News Detroit)
A proposal to turn a small office building on Woodward Avenue into a wine bar is creating a big fuss in Pleasant Ridge. The small, Oakland County city has never issued a liquor license and some residents want to keep it that way...

Beckham asked for ID to buy glass of wine (ESPN Soccernet.com)
England soccer player David Beckham was a superstar in Europe but when he moved to America a waiter demanded to see his ID and refused him a glass of wine, according to a book due out in July...

UCT Wine Business Programme appoints new academic director (South African Wine News)
The Postgraduate Diploma that forms part of the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) Wine Business Management Programme, which is gaining increasing attention in the wine industry, has a new Academic Director in Chris du Toit, Financial and Business Manager at Rustenberg Wines based in Stellenbosch...

Herbal wine for ailing pharaohs : Sci-Tech: News: News24
News24: Sci-Tech: News: Herbal wine for ailing pharaohs : When great-grandma took a nip of the elderberry wine "for medicinal purposes," she was following a tradition that goes back thousands of years...

Wine drinkers jump on the blendwagon (San Francisco Chronicle)
If a wine's first duty is to be red, its second is surely to taste good. For many, any bottle that satisfies those two prime directives is good enough, and no long-winded discussion of terroir justifies spending an additional $20. More and more, those looking...

Tuscan Wine Dinner at Vine Restaurant (The Star-Ledger)
Vine Restaurant and Lounge in Basking Ridge will host a Tuscan Wine Dinner on Monday, April 20th. Featured will be the wines of Tenuta di Ghizzano...

New tools tell wine's ancient tales :The Scientist [14th April 2009]
Chemical traces of medicinal herbs identified in ancient Egyptian wine jugs demonstrate that the culture employed herbal remedies 1500 years earlier than previously thought, reports a study in this week's PNAS. ...

Visit with friend in Paris affords time for dinner, wine-tasting (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Memorable wine experiences occur where you find them. Frequently, the best involve informal, blind tastings with passionate, knowledgeable enthusiasts having fun simply sharing and learning from each other without pretense...



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