San Francisco Wine Tours News for 05/01/2009



Wine, Smoke, and the Power of Memory - The Atlantic Food Channel
Before 2008 I had seen a handful of wines tainted by smoke due to small wild fires around vineyards, but never have I seen something on this level. Smoke taint dominates the aromas of wines and also creates a perceptible bitterness in ...

Drinking Wine Adds 5 Years to Your Life, Wine 2.5 Years - Neatorama
Men who had about 20 grams of alcohol daily EUR” equivalent to a half a glass of wine EUR” had 2 1/2 years added to their life expectancy at age 50, compared with men who didn't drink at all, according to the research published today in the ...

Serious Grape: Learning About Wine and Food from the Pros .
Editor's note: On Fridays Deb Harkness of Good Wine Under $20 joins us to talk some Serious Grape. Take it away, Deb! Photograph from allaboutgeorge on Flickr When it comes to wine and food, it can sometimes feel like the...

Drink a Little Wine, Live a Little Longer (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
THURSDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) -- Men who regularly drank up to a half a glass of wine each day boosted their life expectancy by five years, Dutch researchers report...

Explore Rattlesnake Hills Wine Trail - Fri, 01 May 2009 PST (The Spokesman-Review)
Looking to make a wine run thats fun and off the beaten path? Time to hit the trail EUR the Rattlesnake Hills Wine Trail in the lower Yakima Valley...

Wine makes men live longer: study (Sunshine Coast Daily)
Drinking up to half a glass of wine per day can help you live up to five years longer - at least for men, according to a new study...

UK: Company of Wine People secures Harrods listing: Beverage News .
South African wine firm, the company of wine people, has secured a listing in UK luxury retailer Harrods for its Kumkani wine range...

NSW wine lovers buying local (BigPond News)
NSW drinkers are increasingly turning to locally produced plonk, with new figures showing the state's wine industry is surging...

Felix Salmon » Blog Archive » Wine tasting datapoint of the day .
I'm not frankly a huge fan of this experiment: only two wines were used (a $5 wine and a $40 wine) and both were Portugese. I'm still pretty sure that men, if they're presented with a very expensive wine from a region they respect ...

New taxes on wine, beer (News 10 NBC Rochester)
New state taxes on beer and wine went into effect today and that means you can expect to pay about two-cents more per bottle and six pack...

Blues and wine are fine at Peapack-Gladstone's Natirar Park (The Somerset Reporter)
COURTESY GARDEN STATE WINE GROWERS ASSOCIATION Scenes from last year's Blues & Wine Weekend held at Peapack-Gladstone's Natirar Park. The festival takes place this year on May 23-24. PEAPACK-GLADSTONE -- The Garden State Wine Growers Association will hold its annual...

Expensive UK Government Wine Cellar Causes Controversy
The announcement that the wine cellar of the UK government is worth nearly 800000 has some people up in arms over questions of extravagance. The government's cellar has over 39000 bottles of wine including around 500 bottles of spirits ...

Tax increase means more expensive beer, wine (The Observer-Dispatch)
Get ready to pay more to drink your favorite beer or wine. A higher excise tax took effect on beer and wine Friday, and consumers still will see it reflected at area stores.  ..

Study: A little wine adds years to life (UPI)
WAGENINGEN, Netherlands, May 1 (UPI) -- A Dutch study has found that middle-aged men who drink about half a glass of wine a day live five years longer on average than alcohol abstainers...

Georgian filmmaker founds political 'Party of Wine' (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A legendary Georgian filmmaker said Friday he was founding a political "Party of Wine" to extol the virtues of the Caucasus republic's wine-making traditions and historic national values...

Wine That Wants to Be Judged by Its Label - PSFK.com
The fashion designer who brought trucker chic to the mainstream is now producing wine - and sources say it might actually be quite good. Ed Hardy is known...

Wine Tasting: Fantesca Cabernet Sauvignon
Fantesca's 2004 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon soothes your stress away and satiates your wine desires with notes of deep earth and rich fruit. The combination of chocolate cherries, cassis and warms the soul while a hint of ...

The Week in Wine (NBC 5 Chicago)
Winos, read (and drink) up -- next week is filled with a variety of wine-focused events. Here's where you'll be sipping...

Eater: Plywood: Bowery Wine Co. Owner Takes Boys Room Space
Eater : The New York City Restaurant, Bar, and Nightlife Blog...

Can Christian Audigier Make French Wine Cool?
There are some rather flashy wines out there but perhaps none showier than the ones from Christian Audigier, he of the Ed Hardy brand and his own fashion label. Audigier is a brand obsessive. This is a man with his logo tattooed across ...



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