San Francisco Wine Tours News for 05/06/2009



Wine Find (Baltimore Sun)
Wine Find This bright, bubbly young wine is not being recommended for its sophistication or snob-worthiness. It's just a lively, fun wine that is perfect for serving on a spring day. Unlike some California sparkling wines, it does not seek to emulate Champagne. Made from pinot blanc, sauvignon blanc and muscat - a blend foreign to Champagne - it fills a niche all its own. It's unabashedly ...

Now, eco-friendly plastic wine bottles (Hindustan Times)
COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! Australian winemaker Wolf Blass has claimed that selling wine in plastic bottles, instead of glass bottles, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions...

Law allows vineyards to sell wine on site (Boston Globe)
Until Tuesday, wine makers Ken and Gail Albert couldn't sell glasses of their own Shelburne Vineyard wine at parties and events at their tasting room...

First taste: 98 South Wine Bar & Kitchen (East Valley Tribune)
EURThis place is like a Scottsdale restaurant.EUR Those are the sentiments I overhear from not one but two different tables of diners near me on a recent evening at the 98 South Wine Bar & Kitchen in downtown Chandler...

Scot toasts wine challenge medal (BBC News)
A Scottish woman is the toast of Spanish winemaking after her red wine scoops a top international prize...

THe Wine List
Charity Wine Tasting: The University Exchange Club holds its 10th annual Wine Tasting for Charity 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday at the MUSC Wellness Center. Heavy hors d'oeuvres, live music, local art. $35 or $50 a couple. ...

First taste: 98 South Wine Bar & Kitchen - The Dish with Jess .
The popular wine bar abruptly closed last October EUR along with sister Chandler restaurants 56 East Bar & Kitchen and KiZake Sushi & Martinis EUR after the economic downtown left then-owner Ron Wojcicki overextended. ...

Wine tasting set for Thursday (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Johnson County Trail Foundation is hosting a wine tasting and silent auction from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday at North Ridge Pavilion in Coralville. Admission is a $10 donation...

Outpost Wines, Napa: Current Releases - Vinography: A Wine Blog
Outpost Wines, Napa: Current Releases. To the casual visitor or inexperienced wine lover, Napa may just be a name on a bottle, or a vision of vineyards stretched between Highway 29 and the Silverado Trail. But like many wine regions, ...

S AFRICA: Wines of South Africa quells football wine row: Beverage .
Wines of South Africa (WoSA) has moved to calm reports that some wine companies in the country are unhappy at the trade body's handling of wine tenders for this year's FIFA Confederations Cup football tournament...

Women more affected by price of wine than men (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
How much does the price of a bottle of wine matter? Quite a lot - to women...

Wine, Pills, and Soap Make Air Passenger Disruptive - TalkLeft .
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Wine Buzz: A cuve of a film on wine (The Sacramento Bee)
Ricardo Kanakari has one foot in the vineyard and an eye on the silver screen. He's the executive producer of "Wine Nation: The Movie," a film set for an October release...

Shuttleworth on Wine
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Wine and life expectancy
Wine can increase your lifespan according to media reports, but we take a closer look at the research behind the claims...

Wine flights taking off in Newark Liberty's Terminal C | Gadling.com
Wine flights taking off in Newark Liberty's Terminal C. by Mike Barish on May 5th 2009 at 2:00PM. I tend to be a little anal-retentive when it comes to getting to the airport on-time for a flight. As such, I end up arriving a good 2+ ...

Wine Tastings in Istanbul - Globespotters Blog - NYTimes.com
Smaller producers are starting to make their mark, and wine tastings are emerging as a fun and affordable way to get acquainted with some of the better offerings, including wines made from grapes grown only in Turkey. ...

Women prefer more expensive wine | Stuff.co.nz
Get the latest food & wine news and recipes on Stuff.co.nz/foodandwine. Stuff brings together the vast news resources of Fairfax New Zealand's nine daily newspapers - The Press, The Dominion Post, Waikato Times, Taranaki Daily News, ...

A little wine may make for a longer life (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Very light wine consumption -- the equivalent of about half a glass a day -- over the long term appears to lead to a longer life, new research shows...

California woman launches wine label (Courier-Post)
Vintner Karen Cakebread can remember when women in wine were a rare vintage...



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