San Francisco Wine Tours News for 05/12/2008



My sister give me her kidney.. and a taste for red wine (Daily Record)
A MUM-OF-TWO claims she's developed a taste for red wine after receiving a kidney from her sister...

Frost could boost Monterey County wine grape sales (The Salinas Californian)
April freezes in Northern California may have damaged up to 15 percent of Californias wine grapes EUR” but in milder Monterey County, thats good news for vintners...

The Battle for Wine and Love or How I Saved the World From .
Around the world, wines she used to cherish have lost their personalities and are all starting to taste the same. Why? To please their man of course; Robert Parker, the worlds most influential wine critic. Positive reviews can mean ...

Did You Know? - What are 'Second Label' wines?
Some wine consumers desire fancy labels, others relish what's inside the bottle. If you're in the second group, you'll find a lot to like about Bordeaux 'second-label' wines. Made primarily from younger vines and extra-production, ...

War of the sexes comes to wine (Miami Herald)
Sommelier Marnie Old and brewer Sam Calagione have a long-standing, friendly rivalry: She thinks wine is the best beverage to drink with food; he thinks it's beer...

Parisians pawn wine with 'auntie' (Moldova.org)
A Frenchman received $8,000 for a bottle of wine at Credit Municipal of Paris, a pawnshop known to many Parisians simply as auntie, officials said.The Credit Municipal of Paris, a government-run pawnshop open since 1777, marked a new phase in pawning when it recently began taking wine, the Los Angles Times reported.People can now exchange liquidity for liquidity, said Bernard Candiard, ...

Educational, Contemporary, Sit-Down, Relaxing & Fun Wine Tasting .
May 17, 2008 (Sat): Come join us for the most educational sit-down wine tasting experience in South Florida. Meet people from all over S. Fla. who travel 50 miles to attend these one of a kind wine tastings. It is such a pleasure to be ...

Parisians pawn wine with 'auntie' (UPI)
PARIS, May 12 (UPI) -- A Frenchman received $8,000 for a bottle of wine at Credit Municipal of Paris, a pawnshop known to many Parisians simply as "auntie," officials said...

New Zealand Wine Fair and Email SNAFU
I just confirmed that I will be pouring at the New Zealand Wine Fair tomorrow. It's going to be a great show, and if you're there, please stop by and say hello. Speaking of saying hello, I realized today that I had the wrong email ...

Wine/Food: Tampa Bay Wine & Food Festival (Creative Loafing Tampa)
Thursday, May 15. By Leilani Polk.America's most beloved obsession of late is food. Luckily, the Bay area has all manner of great restaurants for taste enthusiasts, not to mention a respectable lineup of food fests, the most recent being the Tampa Bay Wine & Food Festival. Last year, the inaugural event raised $262,000 for the Abilities Foundation; this year, the fest fundraiser returns to its ...

Dienheim
[DEEN-hime] An important wine-producing town located just south of oppenheim in the rheinhessen region. Although overshadowed by the reputation of Oppenheim, Dienheim is nonetheless recognized for producing high-quality wines from ...

Intellectualizing Wine.Just Do It!
Wine and drinking is a perfect example. I can't stand the idea of simply drinking a glass of wine and just letting it flow down my throat, letting the droplets fall where they may without thought. I NEED to think about what I'm doing. ...

Region toasts wine winners (Canowindra News)
continuing to produce high standard wines. According to the judges at last weeks Cowra Region Vineyard Association wine awards, the standard of the local wines is increasing...

Petaluma Wine, Jazz & Blues Festival
Aug 09, 2008 (Sat): Petaluma Wine, Jazz & Blues Festival 1st Annual Benefit for Music Education Programs in All Petaluma Area Schools Dont miss the fantastic Petaluma Wine, Jazz & Blues Festival on Saturday, August 9th, 2008. ...

Mounting evidence shows red wine antioxidant kills cancer (Moldova.org)
Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell's core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling its function. The study is published in the March edition of the journal, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. The study also showed that when the pancreatic ...

Toast Martinborough Wine Food & Music Festival (Scoop.co.nz)
Now in its 17th year, Toast Martinborough is the annual showcase of quality wine produced in the award winning region...

Will Smith - Smith Options Wine Tale (ContactMusic)
WILL SMITH has bottled up a new movie project after optioning the film rights to wine saga THE BILLIONAIRE'S VINEGAR: THE MYSTERY OF THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BOTTLE ...

The Wine Platinum Regression Hunt
Wine has been under heavy development in recent months, and some applications that used to work well no longer do. But we don't know which ones! Please help us find them, so we can fix them. Here's how: ...

A Place for Wine
I dropped by the San Francisco Wine Center the other dayEUR”happened to be in the neighborhood, around the block from the great wine shop K&L, near the Giants stadium. I parked by a desperate and destitute crowd outside the St. ...

Six wines for sixty years
As Israel celebrates Yom Hatzmaut EUR Independence Day for the 60th time, I have been given the task to look back and select a wine to cover each decade. This is not necessarily meant to be a list of the best wine, but the one that best ...



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