San Francisco Wine Tours News for 04/27/2008



A Donkey & Goat Winemaker Dinner at The Port Land Grille
May 27, 2008 (Tue): A DONKEY AND GOAT WINEMAKER DINNER AT THE PORT LAND GRILLE, WILMINGTON, NC On Tuesday, May 27th, Shawn & Anne at The Port Land Grille will feature the fabulous wines and winemakers from A Donkey and Goat winery. ...

Wine from Cahors series
If ever you want to understand what a tannic wine is all about, then this is the wine that would teach you. Id describe it as clinging to your gums with a really dry sensation as if all the moisture is suddenly sucked out of your mouth ...

Thursday | Las Olas Wine and Food Festival (Miami Herald)
LAS OLAS WINE AND FOOD FESTIVAL: The Riverside Hotel, 620 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; 800-325-3280 or www.riversidehotel.com; $70...

|Mandy Allwood: I drink 3 bottles of wine a DAY (News Of The World)
TRAGIC octuplets mum Mandy Allwood has confessed she is killing herself with boozeEUR”downing up to THREE bottles of wine a DAY to cope with the loss of her babies and her cheating lover...

Does Your Wine Need Viagra?
Why America can't make good cheap wine...

Kaz Winery 2006 Stomp - Merlot
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 greater than great, as is the case with todays wine from Kaz Winery. ...

Wine production growing in Illinois (The Beacon News)
Paul Hahn of Mackinaw Valley Vineyard will be among the first to share with wine tasters how Illinois' winemakers are enjoying a comeback...

LG's new Wine Phone has big screens, comfort
The new senior-friendly SV390/LV3900 Wine Phone features a larger screen inside (2.4-inches) and out (1.8-inches) for reading text "comfortably," plus larger buttons for aging fingers to press more comfortably, too. ...

A Wine-Themed Wedding Shower!
We decided wed make the favors (shown below) ourselves, so we made wine charms using clear beads, purple beads, green beads and pearls. We made over 200 charms (to give to guests in sets of four), and Im finally ready and very excited ...

Mead proves one honey of a complex wine (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Forget everything you think you know about honey wine...

Vista Sunrise Kiwanis hosts wine-tasting benefit with a 1920s theme (North County Times)
VISTA ---- Guests at the "Grape Gatsby Affair" were cordially invited to go back in time to the 1920s during a wine-tasting benefit for the Kiwanis Club of Sunrise Vista at the beautiful home of Carl Ames on April 12...

The Mountain Wines of Napa: Tasting Notes From Altitude
Winemakers and producers seemingly must participate in this cacophony of messages in order for their wines to attract the attention of consumers. This competition for eyeballs in the store (or online), and then share of wallet (or, ...

Vino 100 Celebrates One Year with Wine Tasting Event (KOLR/KSFX Ozarks)
Across Springfield, hundreds of people took on the job of wine tasting. Vino 100 celebrated its one year anniversary by giving back to our community. The store sold tickets for the wine tasting, and will donate all of the proceeds from the ticket sales to the Development Center of the Ozarks...

Tasting Wine: In praise of Fontodi Chianti Classico (The San Francisco Examiner)
Occasionally, I dedicate this column to one producer. To do it, I need to be continually blown away by a whole portfolio. Some producers are often reliable, but when it comes to making every wine stellar all of the time, only a handful come to mind. Italy's Fattoria Fontodi in Chianti Classico is one...

The Negative Correlation Between Wine Price and Quality
Individuals who are unaware of the price do not derive more enjoyment from more expensive wine. In a sample of more than 6000 blind tastings, we find that the correlation between price and overall rating is small and negative, ...

Wild Wines by Dawn Marie
I wanted to make wines as long as I can remember. They had a section on fruit wines, and when I found fruit outdoors I would think about their individual acidity and sweetness. After tasting I could see this one needed more acid or this ...

Better Wine Tasting: The Winery Advisor Tasting Room Personality .
I have to admit I like tasting wine in tasting rooms. Its largely about the wine of course, but the people, the setting, the stuff to do, perhaps the vibe in the room and being out in the countryside also play their part. ...

The trick to plastic wine corks: Elbow grease (Chicago Tribune)
Q : What is the story on the new plastic wine corks? I have tried several types of wine openers and none of them work easily. Is there a secret to opening them?..

A SEA OF WINE (Carteret County News-Times)
Beaufort Wine and Food Weekend best-in-show recipient Joe Otos from Willowbrook Cellars in Sebastopol, Calif., displays a winning bottle of pinot noir to Raleigh resident Bert Stevick at the grand tasting event Saturday at the N.C. Maritime Museums Gallants Channel annex...

Types of white wine (The San Francisco Examiner)
SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - Occasionally, I dedicate this column to one producer. To do it, I need to be continually blown away by a whole portfolio. Some producers are often reliable, but when it comes to making every wine stellar all of the time, only a handful come to mind...



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