San Francisco Wine Tours News for 05/01/2008



#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 ...

Manly Pacific offers tasty package for Food & Wine Festival
To celebrate the annual Manly Food & Wine Festival, the Manly Pacific Hotel, managed by Novotel, is offering a tasty package for just $240 per night including overnight accommodation, a gourmet Australian cheese plate and bottle of ...

little ol wine drinker meEUR¦
merle haggard shows up on the ipod the other day and and i was stoked! little ol wine drinker me caught my attention especially since ive been experimenting with these dust caps on the pedals: (these are the pedals off my bike, ...

Denison Arts and Wine Renissance returns Saturday (Sherman Herald Democrat)
By Jessica Richardson Herald Democrat DENISON EUR” After more than a decade spent under big tops downtown, the Denison Arts and Wine Renaissance will be moving indoors at the historic Katy Depot and getting back to its roots...

2004 Bonneau Wines Los Carneros Chardonnay
Agent Red, our resident red wine spy, prides himself on finding the finest red wines for our Operatives. Because Central Command believes that all of its agents should have the ability to spy great wines of any varietal, Agent Red was ...

Seifried Riesling Ice Wine 2004 - Dessert Wine Reviews
But it is on the palate that this wine really shines. Big and expressive flavors of roasted pineapple, apricots and peach syrup. Brioche, vanilla, cinnamon, and a faint hint of petrol round out a nice little dessert wine for the money. ...

Questions Raised Over Wine Kiosks (Electronic Frontier Foundations)
Pennsylvania's chief liquor regulator says a plan to offer wine in up to 100 free-standing kiosks in grocery stores is part of the state's ongoing attempt to modernize the way it sells alcohol...

Wine lovers queue to buy new release of Aussie Grange (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The latest vintage of Australia's best known wine, Grange, went on sale on Thursday with investors and drinkers queuing up to hand over the hefty A$550 ($516) asking price...

Black Muscat 1998 - Kosher Wine Review
This is one of those wines you have in your reserve when you need to serve or give a gift of a sweet wine; its quite sweet enough for those who prefer sweet wines, but its a decently-made wine for all that. ...

Marsala wine is a unique case (Detroit News)
Q. Does Marsala wine go bad? How long is it good for after opening?..

Project Vino Twitter Wine Tasting
Wine Tasting is more of a traditional pursuit, like minded people gathering together to taste fine wine. Twitter wine tasting has been tried before, a wine tasting party that gathered web notables in person to try wines tried the ...

Wine Twitters
The techcrunch story, to return to the focus of this post, tells how Project Vino, an Australian wine site focused on community recommendations, tried a Twitter wine tasting. The site sent three bottles of Kirrihill, a South Australian, ...

San Anselmo firm launches $250M private-equity wine fund (North Bay Business Journal)
SAN ANSELMO, April 30, 2008 EUR Private-equity fund manager Vinum Capital Management LLC is forming a $250 million fund devoted solely to acquiring and operating wine properties...

Friday Wine Tasting
May 09, 2008 (Fri): 2006 BODEGA CATENA ZAPATA, CHARDONNAY, MENDOZA, ARGENTINA 90 points, Robert Parker, Wine Advocate EURśCatena Zapatas 2006 Chardonnay was sourced from three estate vineyards and fermented with natural yeasts. ...

San Anselmo firm launches 250M private equity wine fund (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
SAN ANSELMO, April 30, 2008 Private equity fund manager Vinum Capital Management LLC is forming a 250 million fund devoted solely to acquiring and operating wine properties...

Pairing wine with Asian and Hawaiian cuisine (Orange County Register)
What wines go with Hawaiian food? It's a question Roy Yamaguchi and his wine buyer have long pondered...

Wine 2.0 Spring Fling @ Crushpad
I was first initiated into the innovative world of Wine 2.0 when I attended their NRO event at Varnish last November. What I found was an extremely thriving movement of loosely knit and mainly younger wine aficionados, producers and ...

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...

Cask wine the binger's new favourite (News Interactive)
THEY'RE not as sexy as alcopops but cask wine and port could be the new choice for teenagers trying to get drunk quickly after the Government yesterday ruled out further alcohol tax reform...

Liquid Assets: Wine lover is more tweak than geek (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Bill Abrahamson recently took over Top 10 Wine & Spirits in Woodbury. Before, Abrahamson was in Stillwater for more than 15 years. What: A fundraiser for the University of Minnesota Pediatrics Foundation...



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