San Francisco Wine Tours News for 06/21/2009



Wine growers left with a vintage hangover (Queensland Country Life)
WINEMAKERS across Australia have reported a dip in this year's grape crush but not enough to help the troubled industry start clearing the wine glut...

Syncline stays small to make wine fit for the world (Seattle Times)
In the Columbia Gorge, Syncline winery stays small to keep the focus on wine that, as owner James Mantone says, "fits into the world of wine," where quality matters...

TuxArena: 3 Ways to Install Latest Wine in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty .
I decided to put up this guide which shows how to install the latest Wine release in Ubuntu 9.04 using 3 different methods. The default Jaunty repositories come with Wine 1.0.1, but the latest release is 1.1.24 and a new version is ...

Bordeaux wine fair hopes to beat recession blues (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The world's biggest wine fair opened Sunday in France's wine city of Bordeaux, with leading exporters and producers saying prospects for the sector looked bright despite the global downturn...

White Wine in Excelsior Estates | Beer Wine Liquor
A glass or two of wine every now and then is not only pleasant for plenty of people, it is also thought to have excellent health benefits. While yet to be...

Wine of the Week (South Bend Tribune)
This full-bodied, dry white wine from a blend of Rhone Valley grape varieties is impressively complex and plump while still being lively...

Forest Grove Uncorked a way to showcase city as gateway to wine country (The Hillsboro Argus)
When you think of California wine country, you think of one town in particular -- Napa. While businesses in Newberg, Dundee and Carlton have tried to fit the bill as the central destination for Willamette Valley wineries, no community has...

Best months for wine tours/ best time of year to travel to wine .
People always ask us when is the best time to come to the wine country (in Europe where we work) and the answer we always give is: May or June for good...

Wine Mummy and Wine Hug transport wine safely (San Francisco Chronicle)
A colleague just returned from Italy with a nice bottle of wine she had wrapped in clothing to bring home. She was lucky - the bottle arrived intact. Two new reusable products to transport a 750 ml bottle - the Wine Mummy and the Wine Hug - are better bets....

Wine trail showcases flavors of summer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Vintners along the Hermann, Mo., Wine Trail will offer creative wine and food pairings for visitors to sip and sample during Berries & BarBQ July 25-26. The trail winds for 20 scenic miles along the Missouri River. The participating wineries are ...

Purchasing A Home Wine Making Kit | Treatment for alcohol .
A home wine making kit provides the opportunity for an exciting at-home activity that could change how you think about wine. Wine making could change how you spend you weekends and how you drink wine. Imagine have each bottle of wine ...

Recessionista Wine Dinner |
The American Institute of Wine & Food (AIWF) launches the second of its monthly summer series of economically priced wine and food menus, dubbed...

The Most Popular Cotes du Rhone Wines | Beer Wine Liquor
Cotes du Rhone wine is a fantastic wine and one of my preferred. Naturally, the retail price of Cotes du Rhone wine varies considerably depending on certain...

Lobster, wine, sleep follow break-in (Portsmouth Herald)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) and#8212; Paul Bruneau will have to get used to jailhouse food after workers at a Maine restaurant discovered lobsters and wine missing and#8212; and the suspect asleep on a bench...

Drink in the Northern Illinois Wine Trail (Chicago Sun-Times)
If you go west, you can hit the Northern Illinois Wine Trail. Charming towns with antique stores and cute cafes wend their way across the state up to the town of Galena and Eagle Ridge Resort, both of which host an annual spring Wine Lovers' Weekend to kick off the season in gourmet, celebrity chef/winemaker/sommelier fashion. Fifteen wineries on the Northern Illinois Wine Trail mean ample ...

Sipping and saving in California's wine country (Park Hills Daily Journal)
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) EUR” With a wedding planned for Californias wine country in the middle of the recession, my fiance and I worried not just about what we were spending, but also about our guests. After all, the July event is taking place in a region where $400-a-night hotel rooms and $240 fixed price meals can intimidate even the most budget-savvy traveler...

Toronto Wine + Spirits Festival (+ Rain)
The Toronto Wine + Spirit Festival, the city's first outdoor trade / tasting event, got a unfortunate taste of the unpredictable nature of the skies yesterday at the Distillery District. While the throngs that attended on Friday had a ...

Felix Salmon » Blog Archive » Wine datapoint of the day | Blogs |
The US now imports more Argentine wine than French wine? Wow. I haven't been able to track down the figures EUR” trade.gov is down all weekend for EURśscheduled maintenanceEURť EUR” but this is a huge development, I think, especially since French ...

Romanced by the Rhone at Total Wine | pbpulse.com
One of the great things about being a Swirl Girl is that it gives me the excuse to do all kinds of wine-related things. On Wednesday, I decided to check out one of Total Wine's consumer education classes called EURśRomanced by the Rhone ...

The Australian Wine Regions « The Man from Mosel River
On the blog of Geoff Bilbrough I found a most useful tool: the Australian Wine Region Map. If you are planning a trip to Australian and you want to visit some wine country, this map is exactly what you always wanted. ...



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