San Francisco Wine Tours News for 04/25/2008

UST 1Q profit rises 17 percent on wine sales (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
UST Inc., which produces smokeless tobacco products and wine, said Thursday its first quarter profit jumped 17 percent, helped by strong wine sales...

Wine Critics are Parasites, But That Doesn't Mean We Can Be Bought
One of the world's leading wine critics has just proclaimed that wine writers, journalists, and critics are all parasites. According to Decanter magazine, while being paid to hang out in a plush cliffside hotel in Ronda, Spain, ...

Kitchen Fun - Make Dandilion Wine
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Date Night Wines - Episode #451
2007 Artadi Artazuri Garnacha Rosato NavarraOther Spanish Blush Wine, play, review at cork'd. 2006 Treana White MeritageOther California White Meritag, play, review at cork'd. 2006 Elio Perrone Barbera DastiBarbera dAsti, play ...

Palandri Wine Sells Assets (South African Wine News)
Certain Palandri Wine Group assets have now been sold to the privately owned Global Wine Holdings Pty Ltd...

Yakima Valley Wine Guide -- Annual wine events (Yakima Herald-Republic)
The Central Washington State Fair has been hosting the Washington State Wine Competition for more than 20 years, and will announce the winners of this year's contest at the annual Sunshine & Wine festival, which begins at 2 p.m. at State Fair Park, 1301 S. Fair Ave...

Nevada's First Estate Red Wine
Boasting three red wines, three white wines, two blush wines and a sherry, this vineyard even has a restaurant to feed their hungry visitors. Recently, they released their first estate red wine deemed Nevada Ridge, a 2005 Zinfandel made ...

Order-direct wine law is upheld in AZ (Arizona Daily Star)
A federal judge has refused to void state laws about who can and cannot order wine directly from producers...

Featured Cincinnati Wine Events: 4/25 - 5/1
Representatives from Robert Kracher Selections, a great portfolio of French and Argentinian wines, will be leading the tastings on Saturday. This is a great opportunity to taste some quality wines at no cost. ...

Billionaire Sues Wine Auction House (The New York Sun)
A billionaire businessman is suing a leading wine auction house, Acker Merrall & Condit, alleging that the company sold him counterfeit bottles of vintage wine. The lawsuit, filed by William Koch, an art and wine collector involved in several lawsuits against alleged purveyors of counterfeit wine, comes on the eve of an Acker auction in the West Village on Friday night that the company is ...

Inaugural HK wine auction shows Asia wine hub bid (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Auction house Bonhams hosted a small but symbolic wine auction in Hong Kong on Thursday, the first since wine duties were abolished in the city as part of an ambitious government-led bid to become an Asian wine hub...

Bien Donne Cheese Festival EUR any wine rats dream!
Absa Cheese & Wine Route Cheese Market & Fair Cape Market Square The Mall Gourmet Lane and Ladismith Cheese Music Gazebo Milk Factory Nampak Exhibitors Function Absa ATM In other words, more cheese than what most people can handle ...

Classy wine bars fill the bill in New York (USA Today)
Restaurateurs in the nation's dining capital have discovered a tasteful method for coping with economic jitters and customers' lessening interest in formality: Open a wine bar or a stylish wine-centric restaurant...

Spring Barrel Tasting -- Go forth and drink wine! (Yakima Herald-Republic)
More than 50 wineries throughout the Yakima Valley will be rolling out the barrels this weekend for Spring Barrel Tasting, one of the most popular wine tasting weekends in the Valley...

Iron and Wine/Calexico - Wild Horses
The National - Mansion On The Hill (Springsteen Cover) 3. Iron & Wine / Calexico - Wild Horses (Rolling Stones Cover) 4. Wakey! Wakey! -EUR¦ (in post The Covers Mixtape VI from Captain Obvious. More by this artist at eMusic Amazont)..

1990 Petit-Village 750ml $89.00
Wine Spectator 92 - Beauty. Dark ruby color, with aromas of dried plums, berries and chocolate, hints of spices. Full-bodied and very smooth, with fine tannins and a long aftertaste of chocolate and berry.--1990 Bordeaux.read more ...

Chateau Petrus Stars at 1st Hong Kong Wine Auction in a Decade (Bloomberg.com)
April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong's first wine auction in a decade raised about HK$11.5 million ($1.5 million), as bidders battled in a WWII bunker for rare Burgundies and Bordeaux...

Wine saved my life, says Carrollton business owner (The Carrollton Leader)
When Carrollton resident and business owner George Cornelius had a heart attack back in 2001, his doctor recommended that he drink wine one or two times per day to prevent heart disease. After getting tired of paying $50 and more per bottle for wine, George decided to make his own wine...

#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 ...

1982 Beychevelle 750ml $129.00
International Wine Cellar 89(+?) - ($99-$171) Full medium ruby. Highly perfumed aromas of sour cherry candy, currant syrup, violet and minerals. Thick and rich, but a bit unyielding owing to its solid spine of acidity. ...

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