San Francisco Wine Tours News for 06/23/2009



Wine pairing goes high tech using iPhone and BlackBerry (Canoe Technology)
Choosing a wine to go with a particular dish can be just a few clicks away, thanks to your iPhone or BlackBerry and a unique mobile application developed by Ottawa wine expert Natalie MacLean...

China wine-lovers go for French reds (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Much to the glee of French winemakers, China confirmed its passion for red wine within the first 24 hours of the opening of the world's largest wine exhibition here, Vinexpo...

Highlights from the 2009 Aspen Food & Wine Classic - Vinography: A .
Highlights from the 2009 Aspen Food & Wine Classic. I just returned from a weekend as a speaker at the 27th annual Aspen Food & Wine Classic, the grandaddy of all food and wine festivals. This was my second opportunity to attend the ...

French wine courts India and China (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Caught napping by a consumer crisis after a series of record years, the French wine trade is lusting after the potentially huge markets of China and India as an outlet for Old World wine sales...

Five Wine Steals for $15 and Under - Wine of the Week - Slashfood
Columbia Crest Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2006 ($15): This Washington Merlot is at the upper end of our "Wine Steals" limit, but it tastes like twice the price, with smooth, rich, ripe fruit flavors and notes of spices and tobacco. ...

Wine clubs and academies discover layers of flavour and history at Solms-Delta (South African Wine News)
Lovers of unusual blends and Cape history buffs alike will delight in customised group wine tastings at Solms-Delta, the Franschhoek wine estate known as much for its maverick winemaking philosophy as it is for vibrant social reform...

Foster Museumâs wine gala this Saturday (Fort Bend Herald)
Bids will be flying, wine will be flowing and food will be plentiful at the fifth annual Foster Community Museum wine gala at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at Pecan Grove Country Club in Richmond...

Wine and Barbecue : Hoosier Wine Cellar | Indiana wines and wine guide
During the last month or so, the wine literaure has been chock full of suggestions about wines to use with barbecue. I have yet to see a single article address the meaning of barbecue. To many of us, the suggestion of barbecue evokes ...

From dream to reality in 28 days for Portsmouth wine shop (13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads)
PORTSMOUTH -- A new wine and cheese shop in the historic section of Portsmouth was a month from concept to opening. Angry Adams is in the 500 block of High Street at the corner with Dinwiddie Street and in the citys empowerment zone...

Robert Mondavi to stage Canada's largest free wine tasting ever in .
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Beautiful Light Wines to Enjoy Right Now
Recently, Steve Heimoff commented on one of my blog postings, asking me when I'd begin to score the wines that I recommend. I've long held a personal theory that I'm not as good of a critic as much as I am an enjoyer. ...

jamie goode's wine blog: Three great value, easy to find wines
Back in March, I published my Top Ten Supermarket Wines list (here). I'm currently tasting three excellent wines that should be added to this list. As a wine journalist I'm always delighted to find wines that I can recommend to people ...

BLABBERMOUTH.NET - QUEENSRŸCHE Frontman Signing Bottles Of Red .
Video footage of QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate signing bottles of his red wine, Insania, on April 17, 2009 at the Redmond Whole Foods in Redmond, Washington can be viewed below. Also available is a short interview with the singer. ...

Robin Goldstein on the Economics of Wine - Freakonomics Blog .
In his most recent post, he asks why in Sweden, but virtually nowhere else, all wine stores are organized by price. (The answer clearly has something to do with the fact that the government has a monopoly on retail wine sales in Sweden. ...

Greene Grape's Marketing Strategy: *%$&ing Wine and Feeling Fine .
Where wine is concerned, we thought the juice boxes at Xie Xie were the most delightfully dclass thing we'd see all week, but then there's the matter of the Greene Grape's EURPink in a BoxEUR special: $16 for a 1.5 liter box of Domaine de ...

Asians snap up fine wine in soft auction market (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Asia is saving the fine wine auction market...

Peter Falke Wines to host evening of wine and culinary excellence (South African Wine News)
Enthusiastic food and wine lovers are invited to an evening of elite wines and authentic Italian cuisine at Arpeggio Italian Restaurant, Stellenbosch on Saturday, 4 July...

It's a 'good crisis' for South American wine (AFP via Yahoo! News)
As the world grits its teeth and grabs another glass of something to chase the blues away, South American wine producers are contentedly watching exports bounce...

wineconversation.com Blog Archive Wine and Tech: Picturing a .
I have recently come across a number of innovations that are not directly related to wine, but which got me thinking about how they might be used to do fun, useful and social stuff with wine. I thought I would share some of these with ...

Exports prove to be a good drop for wine maker (Business Day)
AUSTRALIAN VINTAGE has lifted earnings by bucking the trend of declining wine exports and an oversupply of grapes and recording strong growth in sales volume to its main overseas markets...



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