San Francisco Wine Tours News for 05/07/2008

YOURS, WINE & OURS (New York Post)
TIMES are getting tough. Everybody's cutting back on luxuries - like expensive wine in restaurants. Last week's Crain's had a front-page story headlined, "Is there a cheaper bottle?"The cheapest bottle is usually the one you bring yourself. For two...

The Harmony Between Food and Wine
The right combination between food and wine is a source of ultimate bliss for every connoisseur. Both wine and food can benefit from the right pairing. The right wine can accentuate unexpected gastronomical aspects of food and vice ...

the wine chronicles episode 1: a wine enthusiasts hope and heartbreak
Pasadena is home to several wine-lovers haunts: Bodega, Vertical Wine Bar, Red White + Bluezz, Barcelona, and The Crepevine Bistro among others. Culver City has BottleRock, Vinoteque and Vino Populi, and Im sure there are several wine ...

Wine?s Pleasures: Are They All in Your Head? (New York Times)
In recent months, wine consumers have been portrayed as easily manipulated victims who can be influenced by price, pretense or hype...

Booze & Presidential Politics
I went googling for a photo of Clinton with wine and Obama with wine and McCain with wine. Nothing. Poor Obama is already so associated with elitism I suspect that he'd cancel any campaign stop at this point that even held the ...

BIG Friday Wine Club Tasting w/ Zoe's Kitchen
Jun 06, 2008 (Fri): BIG FRIDAY is our monthly exclusive wine tasting for Palmetto Wine Club members and their guests. Each month we partner with a local restaurant to pair two great menu items with the monthly wines. ...

Foster's Group U.S. Wine Sales Fall 4% in April, Review Says (Bloomberg.com)
May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Foster's Group Ltd.'s wine sales in the U.S. dropped in the four weeks through April 19, signaling that a recovery for the company's American wine division is still some way off, the Australian Financial Review said...

HONG KONG POISED TO BE HUB FOR ASIA'S GROWING WINE TRADE (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Trade / foreign investment Asia's wine market will expand by 10-20 per cent over the next five years, with growth led by China, Hong Kongh, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea, according to Hong Kong's trade development body...

Wine exports fall in volume and value (AAP via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Australian wine exports dropped in volume and value terms in the past 12 months...

Aussie dollar hurts wine exports (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
The Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation says the climbing Australian dollar has hurt the country's wine exports during the past year...

Sip-up: Soapy 'wine' burns drinker (Boston Herald)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Two women were hospitalized after a New Zealand cafe mistakenly served dishwashing liquid as mulled wine. Chico's Restaurant Ltd. in the...

Better wine can be fine in dishes (The Columbus Dispatch)
We normally think of wine as a drink to be enjoyed by the glass. But wine can also be a stellar ingredient in a meal, from entree to side dish or dessert. Wine-enhanced dishes expand the culinary repertoire...

Desmorosso: a Ducati wine, not a bike
A little surprise for fans of motorbikes and wine - from Ducati emerges a new product, the Desmorosso. This is apparently a high-class cuvÃe, 2006 vintage, showing some Ducati excellence in the world of wine too. ...

Icewine / How a little frost can do wonders for wine
But plenty of excellent wines also come from Germany, Austria, and the southeastern and southwestern corners of Canada, all places where freezing temperatures in winter are quite normal. And these are exactly the regions where icewine ...

Australian wine exports decline (Adelaide Now)
AUSTRALIAN wine exports dropped in volume and value terms in the past 12 months due to reduced bulk wine exports and soft-pack shipments...

Wine Openers: And the Cork Comes Off
Opening a bottle of wine can be of great difficulty for some people, particularly the wine novice. This is because wine, unlike other types of alcohol, doesnt always come with a twist-off bottle cap or a pull tab that allows for easy ...

French Wine Seminar Series
May 14, 2008 (Wed): The PDX Singles Wine GroupWe welcome you to come join us, sip some delicious wines chosen by some of Portland's most creative wine makers, wine experts, and restauranteurs, and maybe meet your dream date. ...

Has California Wine Gone Off?
Alice Feiring writes today in the Los Angeles Times that shes quit drinking wine from California because, in her mind, the wines have become EURœoverblown, over-alcoholed, over-oaked, overpriced and over-manipulated.EUR ...

LaZarre Wines 2005 Bien Nacido Vineyard Pinot Noir
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 even better than that, as is the case with todays wine from Joseph Family ...

Hong Kong Poised To Be Hub For ASIA's Growing Wine Trade (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News)
Asia's wine market will expand by 10-20 per cent over the next five years, with growth led by China, Hong Kongh, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea, according to Hong Kong's trade development body...

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