San Francisco Wine Tours News for 05/17/2009



Temecula Wine Country: What You Didn't Know You Could Do in .
California wines are well-known, and the Wine Country of Temecula Valley contributes to the state's rich heritage of wineries and entertainment...

Hot in recession: Cheaper wine, chocolate, Spam (AP via Yahoo! News)
It's not all doom and gloom in the U.S. economy. Some products are bucking the recession and flying off store shelves. Sales of chocolate and running shoes are up. Wine drinkers haven't stopped sipping; they just seem to be choosing cheaper vintages...

Wine and Architecture - Vinography: A Wine Blog
Wine and architecture have a long history together. If architecture is frozen music, then wine is liquid weather. Each transmutes something into a whole greater than the sum of its parts. But beyond this metaphorical kinship, wine has ...

WINE and the importance of application compatibility (Linux Today)
Khaotic Musings: "There are four major industry players (IBM, Sun, Red Hat and Novell) who have a vested interest in desktop Linux's success, and therefore much to gain by cultivating the open source developer community which produces Wine."..

Wine Festival draws usual large crown to St. Ambrose (Quad-City Times)
It took Lori Bickford of Davenport all of stopping at the first table and tasting her first glass of wine for the day to find one she really liked...

Australian Coffee and Australian Wine EUR What Dream Have You Left .
Maybe it's time I dust off that dream and find good reason to be tasting some Australian coffee and Australia wine. What dream have you to left waiting? How will you know when it's time? EURME EURLizEUR Strauss ...

Wine: Shopping Online & Tasting Notes | Bay Area Bites
Brian Zucker helped pioneer the world of online wine shopping as an undergrad at U.C. Davis. In 1997, he still needed more credits to graduate (he was in his fifth year at Davis), and had noticed how popular the website was for the now ...

Summer wine: Torrontes - Table Hopping - Steve Barnes .
The Cuma torrontes from Michel Torino is a perfect outdoor wine EUR fresh and floral, with lots of grapefruit and green grass. It's about $15 a bottle retail, or $32 at The Wine Bar on Lark Street in Albany. ...

Discovering Burgundy Wine - Blogcritics Tastes
When you think of Burgundy wine, what is the first thing that comes to mind? EURExpensiveEUR is one possible word. Everyone around the world has heard about the famous tiny vineyards where wines can sell for hundreds of dollars a bottle ...

How a heated row nearly derailed 'Summer Wine' series (BBC News)
Last Of The Summer Wine star Peter Sallis says a heated row nearly derailed the series before it started...

Wine, music and leisure (The Vacaville Reporter)
Ryan Chalk/RChalk@TheReporter.com Doug and Bev Snow, of Vacaville, sample a glass of wine from local vintner Julie Larson, of Julie LePla Winery, in Vacaville's Town Square during the annual Art and Wine Stroll event Saturday in downtown Vacaville. Thirteen businesses participated in the event hosted by the Downtown Vacaville Business Improvement District, opening their doors for wine tasting..

Heartland Wine Trail honored (The Shamokin News-Item)
The Susquehanna River Valley Visitors Bureau and its members honored the Susquehanna Heartland Wine Trail with the Dan Baylor Award at the annual Membership Dinner at Tedds on the Hill on Thursday, May 7...

Paso Robles Wine Festival has a myriad of tastes (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
An estimated 10,000 people were expected to attend Paso Robles Wine Festival and related..

Alison Stein Wellner: France Hosts a Wine & Cheese Party -- In .
The French government is throwing a cocktail party. Is your place available?..

Wine suggestions for tightwads (The Hanford Sentinel)
The recession is hurting everybody's wallet nowadays, including those of wine lovers. When you just can't afford your favorite $25 wine, what can you do to quench your wine thirst? There's a lot of cheap wine out there, but it's a crapshoot trying to find the rare good ones when you don't know what they are or where they are...

RealClearMarkets - AP - Markets - May 16, 2009 - Hot in recession .
Some products are bucking the recession and flying off store shelves. Sales of chocolate and running shoes are up. Wine drinkers haven't stopped sipping; they just seem to be choosing cheaper vintages. ...

Wine For Dummies : CRshare.com
Wine enthusiasts and novices, raise your glasses! The #1 wine book has been extensively updated! If you're a connoisseur, Wine For Dummies, Fourth Edition will get you up to speed on what's in and show you how to take your hobby to the ...

Wine glut to crush grower hopes (Adelaide Now)
AUSTRALIA'S $5 billion wine industry has to "shrink by 20 per cent" within a year to cope with an oversupply of grapes and sharply reduced market share and profitability at home and overseas...

My Wine Week. In Pictures - from Spittoon.biz
My Wine Week. In Pictures details from Spittoon...

Consumers not scrimping on wine, chocolate in recession (The Nashua Telegraph)
WASHINGTON EUR It's not all doom and gloom in the U.S. economy. Some products are bucking the recession and flying off store shelves. Sales of chocolate and running shoes are up. Wine drinkers haven't stopped sipping; they just seem to be choosing cheaper vintages. . - By DEB RIECHMANN The Associated Press..



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