San Francisco Wine Tours News for 09/26/2009



Oak Street wine bar proposal divides neighborhood groups in Carrollton (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
The issue before the New Orleans City Planning Commission this week -- whether to approve plans for an "upscale wine bar and bistro" with live music in the commercial section of Oak Street -- was hardly unusual.Rusty Costanza/The Times-PicayuneOak Street...

Is Food Writing Biased Toward Wine? - Young & Hungry - Washington .
The headline (which was likely written by a copy-editor, not Berretta) sets the tone: EURTrouble Brews for Wine; Cheese Chooses BeerEUR [emphasis added]. The story is about growth in an industry: beer. More people are appreciating good beer ...

Winter Wine Festival to bring in 30 vintners (The News-Press)
The Naples Winter Wine Festival's 10th anniversary will feature the wines of 30 vintners from around the globe...

Slate: how the Internet has democratized wine drinking | Dr Vino's .
A spirited wine blog with independent picks for value vino, wine maps and commentary...

My Personal Blog: Wine 1.1.30 to Support OpenAL
Wine 1.1.30 to Support OpenAL. Wine 1.1.30 has come out even though it's coming quite late with more than two weeks as promised. But as the result, there are so many improvements on this development snapshots. Some of them are: ...

Celeb chefs featured at food and wine fest (Chicago Sun-Times)
Chicago Gourmet -- our city's effort to show off its culinary talent and help its bid to host the 2016 Olympic games -- gets beefed up on its return to Millennium Park this weekend. Last year's inaugural upscale food- and wine-tasting festival was roundly criticized for not having enough food vendors. Organizers from the Illinois Restaurant Association promise to correct that this year ...

The New York Cork Report: Long Island Wines, Finger Lakes Wines .
By Lenn Thompson, Long Island Editor and Editor-in-Chief Just a quick note to check in from the beginnings of the 2009 Finger Lakes grape harvest. After a couple hours spent at Fox Run Vineyards yesterday afternoon, with Morgan and Evan ...

How To Buy Affordable Wine (Forbes)
We picked 10 wines for less than $100 total and scored both hits and misses...

Two Fins Wine
Two Fins Wine. twofins1. Designed by Public Creative | Country: Australia. EURAs a full-service brand design consultancy, Public Creative develop new brands and transform existing brands to work for new markets. Howard Park Wines releases ...

Wine Accessories for the Modern Home | luxxury livving
Do you have wine bottles laying around and need a functional yet to organize and display in a decorative way? Would you like to impress your guests with you...

THE WINE SPY: Auntfield Long Cow Sauvignon Blanc (Flathead Beacon)
This wine is what the Wine Spy is all about. The secret wines of the trade, the wines we buy when no one it looking. It doesnt need a rating and it doesnt need a discount to be a wine we think you should go find right now. First, your nose is filled with a giant fruit bowl of papaya, mango, kiwi, passion fruit and pears. Its the kind of wine you forget to drink and spend the whole party ...

Italian Wine Grape Growers Sound Alarm Over Falling Prices (Bloomberg)
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Italian wine grape growers are suffering from a EURdramatic crashEUR in prices this year even as they prepare for a EURgoodEUR harvest in terms of quality and quantity, the Italian Farmers Confederation said...

Wabash Wine & Arts Fest planned for Oct. 3 and 4 (Evansville Courier & Press)
Palestine, Ill. EUR The seventh annual Wabash Valley Wine & Arts Festival will be held Oct. 3 and 4 in Palestine, Ill. The festival features 12 wineries offering wine tasting and sales, original art and unique craft booths, live entertainment on the stage and street, car and bike shows and food booths. The hours will be 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 3 and noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 4. To become a vendor ...

Woes, Wine and Wrecks - The Toronto Star in 60 Seconds - Slashfood
After financial woes, Jamie Kennedy sells the Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar. Toronto's Recipe for Community hopes to bring generations together and rebuild the community of Alexandra Park. A talk with Jen Yates of Cake Wrecks, and how her blog ...

Gourmet food, wine for every type of tastebud (La Cañada Valley Sun)
The Kiwanis Noon Club of La Cañada Flintridge, the La Cañada Flintridge Educational Foundation, the La Cañada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce and the Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation present the seventh annual La Cañada Flintridge Wine & Gourmet Food Tasting from 2 to 5 p.m. Sept. 20 at La Cañada Memorial Park...

HHS Receives Donation For Wine & Whiskers (Yankton Press & Dakotan)
Heartland Humane Society received a generous corporate sponsorship for the upcoming Wine & Whiskers event from Plains Marketing in Yankton...

Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog: The 100 Point Wine Rating Scale .
For some time now I've lived in the camp that argues the 100 Point wine rating scale is non-sensical, reductive and counter productive. I think I'm changing teams. And here's why: Wine Drinkers Like it. No, it hasn't taken me...

Top five for Friday: My favorite affordable wine lists | Table Talk
I used to cringe at the use of EURalternativeEUR on Atlanta's wine lists EUR a term once reserved for anything that wasn't pinot noir or Chardonnay...

Wine buying for vultures (CNN Money)
There's an oft-repeated bit of eno-philosophy that says the wine business is immune to recession because people drink in good times and bad. But it turns out there's a caveat: In bad times such as these, they mostly drink the cheap stuff...

UC Irvine Extension Offers Two-Day Wine Seminar | HULIQ
The University of California, Irvine Extension has announced a new two-day seminar titled, EURRed, White & Green EUR Organic, Biodynamic & Sustainable,EUR which will be offered on the UCI campus Tuesdays, October 6 and 13, 2009, from 6:30...



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