San Francisco Wine Tours News for 05/18/2009

Tesco trials virtual wine advisor (vnunet.com)
Angelica Mari, Computing , Monday 18 May 2009 at 13:53:00 "Electronic sommelier" provides in-store product advice Tesco has launched a virtual advisor to provide customers with free advice when they are choosing wine in-store. Through the service, which uses touch-screen technology, customers can search for wine...

Linux News: Community: Wine: Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It
Linux news and information from around the world with fresh perspective on Linux and the open-source movement...

Bordeaux Wine Harvest Decimated by Severe Hail Storms (Beverage World)
A fifth of this year's Bordeaux wine harvest has been destroyed by two severe hail bombardments in three days. Vineyards in parts of the Saint-Emilion and Entre-Deux-Mers regions lost 100 per cent of their new growth in storms last Monday and Wednesday...

Melbourne's Good Food and Wine Show coming soon (Taste.com.au)
The Good Food and Wine Show is headed to Melbourne in a little over two weeks time...

LENNDEVOURS: New Blog of Note: Wine Conscience
For a variety of reasons, I don't read nearly as many wine blogs as I used to. For one, there are seemingly dozens of new wine blogs popping up very month. There are the good, the bad and the ugly...

Tesco trials virtual wine advisor (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Tesco has launched a virtual advisor to provide customers with free advice when they are choosing wine in-store...

Wine.Woot : Wines Without Vines? Living The Negociant Life
There, with his father John Livingston, he learned the appreciation of winemaking from Livingston's first wine maker, Randy Dunn. Trent's multifaceted roles ranged from California sales to cellar master. Within a few years, ...

Wine: Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It (TechNewsWorld.com)
Wine may maketh glad the heart of man, as the saying goes, but when that man is a Linux geek, all bets are off. That's at least one conclusion that could be drawn from a contentious two weeks or so on the Linux blogs following comments Mark Shuttleworth made at the Ubuntu Open Week workshop series over IRC late last month. The topic, indeed, was Wine...

Beer Beats Wine in Recession, Margins to Expand: Chart of Day (Bloomberg)
May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Beer is winning customers from other types of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. because of recession, with domestic wine taking share from imports, according to two consumer surveys and the worlds biggest brewer...

Cork dork: Ten cool things to do with leftover wine corks | Dr .
A spirited wine blog with independent picks for value vino, wine maps and commentary...

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...

KARLA'S CLOSET: Wine Wall
Wine Wall. red2-1.jpg picture by stylebook18 red7-1.jpg picture by stylebook18. Spent the day with my favorite person ever. which means I had a good Sunday. Wearing satin peach skater skirt, cream platform wedges by Cathy Jeans, ...

Virginia is for Wine Lovers: Virginia's Wine Trail Receives .
Recognition of Virginia wines at this year's SFCWC sends the wine world a clear message--Virginia is for Wine Lovers, particularly Viognier and Cabernet wines!..

Tesco trials virtual wine advisor (Computing.co.uk)
Angelica Mari, Computing , Monday 18 May 2009 at 13:53:00 "Electronic sommelier" provides in-store product advice Tesco has launched a virtual advisor to provide customers with free advice when they are choosing wine in-store. Through the service, which uses touch-screen technology, customers can search for wine by country, colour, style and price. Further information about the product can also ...

Hot in Recession: Cheaper Wine, Chocolate, Spam (Beverage World)
Sales of chocolate and running shoes are up. Wine drinkers haven't stopped sipping; they just seem to be choosing cheaper vintages. Gold coins are selling like hot cakes. So are gardening seeds...

Wine of the Week: Gordon Brothers Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 (WA) $20
The 2006 Gordon Brothers Cabernet Sauvignon offers a delicious, jammy, fruit forward red wine experience. The tannins are soft, supple and well-placed. The fruit is ripe, jammy and centers around dark cherry and blackberry all wrapped ...

Wine lovers can the bottle and turn to a ring-pull (Times Online)
Wine connoisseurs may balk at the thought of drinking a fine vintage from a can, but glugging from a ring-pull rather than cracking open a full bottle of plonk seems to be catching on...

Rock Sellout » Blog Archive » Iron & Wine: Around the Well
This must be a sweet thing for Iron and Wine, the principal recording/performing vehicle for current Austin, TX resident Sam Beam, who started out releasing beautifully understated spooky americana in 2002, while most of us were still ...

The WineEUR¦ - Market Manila
But I rarely provide the wine. Guests who come for the food often take care of bringing the wine. And in some cases, with serious enthusiasts, we get some phenomenal wines, even though I have to admit my taste buds for wine are not as ...

TheDieline.com: Matsu Wine
Javier Euba of Moruba sent in this wine packaging they...

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