San Francisco Wine Tours News for 05/08/2008



Wine on the Wall
Wine lovers, mark your calendarsEUR wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. is making his first visit to China. The legendary connoisseur will visit Beijing and Shanghai this month for a series of ultra-luxe dinners featuring eight wines, ...

Bourassa Vineyards 2005 Napa Valley Zinfandel
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 Bourassa ...

Around Town: Wine stroll (Merced Sun-Star)
Merced-Mariposa American Red Cross and Downtown Merchants will host a Wine Stroll and Mother's Day event from 4 to 8 tonight with wine and cheese tasting. It will start at Salmeri Insurance and a $10 donation receives a wine glass and entry ticket for a grand prize drawing. Merchants are also donating 10 percent of their evening's proceeds to the Red Cross...

Wine auction benefits Family Building Blocks (Salem Statesman Journal)
Enjoy an evening of fine wine and help support a good cause by attending Uncorked!, a wine auction and dinner benefitting Family Building Blocks at 4:30 p.m. May 17 at the Zenith Vineyard event facility, 5657 Zena Road NW...

Wegmans approved for beer/wine license in Westwood, MA (News 10 NBC Rochester)
The Wegmans grocery chain could be opening its first store in Massachusetts now that Westwood's town meeting voters have approved a beer and wine license for a proposed supermarket...

2005 Bourassa Vineyards Napa Valley Zinfandel
Conclusion EUR This wine is a very drinkable wine (the perfect kind of wine) and is much more bright, youthful and fresh than your typical Zinfandel. Zin fans will find mush to like about this wine, and people who find most California ...

E Wine of the Week
Itsa challenge for people who sell wines, since for a generation now most consumers have viewed any pink wine as sweet. But itsa worthy cause, if for no other reason than a dry rosà is a great choice to accompany another summertime ...

Anglim Winery at La Dolce Vita Wine Lounge
May 08, 2008 (Thu): We have a special treat planned for all of you wine lovers. We will be having Steve and Steffanie Anglim, owners and winemakers of Anglim Winery, coming up all the way from Paso Robles. Anglim Winery is a small, ...

Wine Calendar (The Florida Times-Union)
Upcoming wine tastings and events in the area...

This Week's Wine May 8, 2008
Norton, Missouris best red-wine grape (we think its the best of all the native American red grapes), bears the Latin name of Vitis aestivalis, as contrasted with the classic European grapes like Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and ...

Vintage 1906: Buying Wine In Los Angeles
While walking along, readers of this blog would be scanning the stores for wine. Where could you have purchased it in 1906? One option would have been the Crescent Wine Company, established in 1890 and still serving up wine and spirits, ...

Fire celebrates Cinco de Mayo with wine (Walton Sun News)
Restaurant Fire owner Brenda Darr chose Cinco de Mayo for the restaurant's first wine dinner and Robert Hall Winery, a small award-winning winery based in Paso Robles, as the guest winery...

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...

Businesses Say State Should Go Slow on Hiking Cigarette Tax and Cutting Wine Discounts (New Hampshire Public Radio)
To close a growing budget hole, Governor Lynch wants to add 25 cents a pack to the tobacco tax, and cut in half the discount retailers get when they by wine from the state...

FRANCE: Castel acquires family wine merchant union Oenoalliance (Just Drinks)
Castel has acquired Oenoalliance, a union of family wine merchants specialising in Bordeaux wines and Languedoc Roussillon wines, for an undisclosed sum...

Running to Wine Fun (Santa Barbara Independent)
Saturday, May 10, combines two of my favorites: wine and running!..

1990 Trimbach "Cuvee Frederic Emile" Riesling, Alsace
Perhaps you'd call me a late bloomer when it came to Alsatian wine, but bloom I eventually did, and now I'm a quiet, but fierce devotee of what I believe to be some of the most individualistic wines on the planet. ...

When it comes to wine, how much does taste really matter? (International Herald Tribune)
Despite recent studies and taste tests, says the author, wine's pleasure comes from a range of sources, from cost to context - and, oh yes, flavor...

Wine Blogging Wednesday (aarghEUR¦ Thursday, again) #45: Old World .
What I mean to say is that as I pondered the theme of the May Wine Blogging Wednesday and tried to choose an Old World riesling for this contribution, I kept thinking about the many ways in which Id enjoyed it, just over the last few ...

Wine
Wine was a special treat when I was growing up. My grandfather liked to have wine at Thanksgiving and Christmas, so wine was associated with special times. He liked German Rieslings. For a long while I thought all wine was white and ...



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