San Francisco Wine Tours News for 04/17/2009



Herbal wine, just the thing for ailing pharaohs (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...

Aussie wine to be opened up to China (Sky News Australia)
More Australian wine might make its way onto Chinese tables after Agriculture Minister Tony Burke signed agreements to improve access in China and Hong Kong...

Aussie wine to be opened up to China (BigPond News)
More Australian wine might make its way onto Chinese tables after Agriculture Minister Tony Burke signed trade agreements...

Ways to spend less on wine to drink at home (The Biloxi Sun Herald)
Thinking of getting wine to drink at home but dont want to spend a lot of money? Its possible to get an inexpensive bottle of wine EUR say $10 or less EUR and still have one that tastes good, says Phil Bilodeau, owner of Thief Wine bar and shop in Milwaukee...

Wine of the week (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
This wine is from the same winemakers behind R. H. Phillips and Toasted Head. It has aromas of red raspberries with a nice cocoa component, dark cherries and plums...

Saintly Wine - The Curt Jester
Not sure what to make of this. Holy Spirits wine which includes Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's Riesling Wine, St. Nick's Merlot Wine, and St. Rocco's Cabernet Sauvignon. Well at least they don't have a Matt Talbot wine. ...

Wine Valley Cycle for Sight Saturday (Napa Valley Register)
The Wine Valley Cycle For Sight, one of the Bay Area s most popular events, is returning April 18 in a joint effort to help returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan...

3rd Annual Wine Tasting event slated for April 26 at Catholic Center (Mason Valley News)
The Holy Family Catholic Community of Yerington will present its 3rd Annual Wine Tasting event on Sunday, April 26, from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Catholic Center...

Colorado Springs Business Journal Blog Archive Wine Festival
Earlier in the evening, all six of the nations top female master sommeliers and winemakers talked about the evolution of women in wine at a seminar where participants sampled their wares. The festival continued Saturday night at the ...

Changes at The Wine Advocate? Correspondence with Parker and .
A spirited wine blog with independent picks for value vino, wine maps and commentary...

Wine sales in supermarkets | Kiwiblog
The ODT reports: Labour MP Lianne Dalziel has called for supermarkets to lose the right to sell alcohol because the practice of making a loss on...

Art Museum hosts Spring Wine & Food Tasting in Clinton (Hunterdon Review)
CLINTON â The Hunterdon Art Museum and New Jerseys only Master of Wine and owner of 56 Wine, Christopher Cree, will present the eighth annual Spring Wine & Food Tasting on Saturday, May 16, at the museum, located at 7 Lower Center St...

Company Wants Cheese from Red, Red Wine Band - TMZ.com
UB40 -- who's most known for their version of 'Red, Red Wine' -- is being sued for allegedly stiffing a company out of its cut from the band's tour. But ...

Daily Star: Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: Latest News :: Wine .
Daily Star :: Latest News :: Wine drinkers 'pile on calories' :: The average wine drinker consumes more than 2000 calories a month from alcohol alone, government research suggests...

Australian Labor Party : Boost for Australia's wine exports to Asia
"In a country the size of China, a single window to government will make it easier for the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation to help exporters ship wine to this important market," Mr Burke said. Hong Kong is being established as a ...

Voracious - TASTE at SAM: Making Wine and Cheese - Seattle Weekly
The restaurant recently acquired a wine endorsement that establishes it as a licensed wine retailer, meaning it can now sell bottles of its Masterpiece red and white to customers for take away, at $23 and $19 respectively. ...

Tartar Control Chardonnay: Wine Fights Cavities? - Vinography: A .
Tartar Control Chardonnay: Wine Fights Cavities?. Once upon a time I thought that one of the topics that I would write about with regularity would be the health effects of drinking wine. I quickly found out that attempting to do this ...

Spring Beer & Wine Fest medals announced - The Beer Here
In a field of nearly 90 beers, three breweries garnered double medals over the weekend in the annual Spring Beer & Wine Fest beer competition, and another 13 breweries received medals. Bend-based Deschutes Brewing, Hawaii's Kona Brewing ...

Community House wine fest Saturday (Madison Eagle)
MADISON EUR The Thursday Morning Club and Madisons Main Street Wine Cellar will join in sponsoring a EURSpring Wine Tasting EventEUR from 6 to 9 p.m. this Saturday, April 18, at the clubs Madison Community House, 25 Cook Ave...

How your daily glass of white wine can pile on the pounds (Evening Standard)
WINE drinkers consume an extra 24,000 calories a year from alcohol - the equivalent of almost two weeks of food, health experts warned today...



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