San Francisco Wine Tours News for 04/20/2008



what? no more wine headaches?
A Nasa scientist has developed a device that can assess levels of headache-causing agents found in some wines. Some biometric amines, compounds which occur naturally in some red wine, cause headaches by elevating heart rates, ...

Wine Master Electronic Pocket Guide Wine Database $12.71
From the knowledgeable people at Wine Enthusiast Magazine, and the talented people at Excalibur Electronics, comes the Wine Master Electronic Pocket Wine Guide, the most amazing tool for wine lovers since the corkscrew! ...

Roger Cohen: Of wine, haste and religion (International Herald Tribune)
It's silly to pay through the nose and suffer at affronts to good taste...

#24 Wine
But because there are thousands of wineries, thousands of wines, and a limited time to try them or learn about it, often times, white people need to fake knowledge. If they are exposed as not being knowledgeable, they will look like ...

Wine & Dine (Southwest Iowa News)
Click here to visit the Wine & Dine page, your guide to local wineries and area eateries. Also, find out more about southwest Iowa's newest vineyard and winery, Prairie Crossing...

Mongrana, Querciabella, Toscana, Italy 2006
Their considerable reputation rests upon a range of superb hand-crafted biodynamic wines (see my Querciabella review). These include the Super-Tuscan Bátar, Palafreno and Camartina plus a delicious Chianti Classico DOCG. ...

WineFeast brings outs hundreds of people and types of wine (The Oshkosh Northwestern)
More than 300 types of wine turned Sunnyview Expo Center into the place to be Saturday night...

Small plates adorn an Oregon 'wine pub' (Boston Globe)
PORTLAND, Ore. - Botrytis cinerea is the botanical name of a decidedly evil-looking fungus that attacks wine grapes on the vine. Bunches stricken with botrytis aren't remotely appealing to look at, but are nonetheless responsible for producing some of the world's most sought-after sweet wines. This improbable liaison of the dangerous and the delicious is surely the source of the ...

Ditch The Heavyweight Glass Bottles
But its time to fight the creeping tendency towards bottling wine in ever thicker and heavier glass. The average wine bottle in the UK weighs 500g and the lightest 300g. Of course Champagne bottles are far heavier, but at least they ...

Wine Festival's relocation leaves a bitter taste in some mouths (The Evening Sun)
A decision to move the Gettysburg Wine and Music Festival to Gateway Gettysburg has left a bitter taste in the mouths of some Gettysburg Adams Chamber of Commerce members...

A safe wine-tasting option: Napa WineWalk (San Francisco Chronicle)
It's no secret that with nearly 300 wineries spread across 788 square miles, Napa County is one of the best places in the United States to taste wine. The downside: Because the county is so vast, someone in every group of visitors must drive from one tasting...

Latest cheap wine find: Gala Rouge Pinot Noir
The Girl brought this home from Ralphs today, great after-work cool-down wine. Its in the $7 range, on the shelf above 3 Blind Moose. Its lighter than youd expect a Pinot to be, which may be a downside to wine connoisseurs, ...

Record $634,000 paid for 27 bottles of wine (The New Zealand Herald)
LONDON - While the global credit crunch has forced many consumers to rein in spending, one Beijing-based billionaire has splashed out a record 250,000 pounds (NZ$634,300) on 27 bottles of red wine, London-based Antique Wine Company said...

Raymond Burr Vineyards 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon
The Wine Spies feature one exceptional wine each day EUR and we only bring you wines that we ourselves seek out and love. Always, the wines are great. Sometimes even better than that, as is the case with todays wine from Raymond Burr ...

$US500,000 paid for 27 bottles of wine (TVNZ)
While the global credit crunch has forced many consumers to rein in spending, one Beijing-based billionaire has splashed out a record $US500,000 on 27 bottles of red wine, London-based Antique Wine Company said on Saturday...

Record $500,000 paid for 27 bottles of red wine (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
While the global credit crunch has forced many consumers to rein in spending, one Beijing-based billionaire has splashed out a record $500,000 on 27 bottles of red wine, London-based Antique Wine Company said on Saturday...

Wine containers a matter of taste (Centre Daily Times)
Over the millennia, wine has been fermented, stored and sold in many sorts of containers. Most of them have imparted a flavor to the wine...

Top Tips for Wine Festivals
We recently drank our way through Woodinville Passport 2008, in the ever-burgeoning Woodinville wine region just outside of Seattle, Washington. Here, we experienced wine tasting in warehouse office parks EUR and never was a more true and ...

Have travel restrictions changed your wine-buying habits?
According to a survey by BottleWise, a company that makes wine carriers, many wine travelers have significantly changed the way they handle wine purchases. Here are the results of a survey conducted last month by BottleWise:..

The Sunset Grille crew furthers its wine knowledge
The dining room service crew of the Sunset Grille, Radisson Aruba Resort Casino & Spa underwent instruction of the On-Trade Wine Course in the wine bodega of Pepia Est, one of the island's leading purveyors of fine liquor and spirits. ...



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