San Francisco Wine Tours News for 10/23/2008

Tucson and wine pair well (Arizona Daily Star)
Like a fine cabernet sauvignon, Tucson's wine scene is maturing EUR” even as many of the experts behind the bar are only in their 20s...

Wine Fund Manager Not A Wine Drinker
Its true: Peter Kaufman is a managing director at Bacchus Capital Management, a wine-focused investment fund, and he doesnt really care for wine. Hes EURœmore of a beer and shot guy,EUR he said at a conference earlier this year. ...

Launching mywinetxt.com !!!
Youll see the Israeli Wine Direct logo up there for now while we get the logo designed over at Crowdspring by an entire crowd of hip designers we dont even know and may never meet from all over the world (cool, huh?). ...

WINE INTEGRITY AWARD (Lodi News-Sentinel)
Karen Barrett Ross laughs with Hal Huffsmith, left, Robert LaVine and Barry Ross, not shown, at the Lodi Wine and Vistor Center on Tuesday...

On the Wine Trail
There was a regional wine festival promoting the wineries of the Judean Hills, and they proposed to travel and taste. Drive through those cool, hilly roads and go tasting from winery to winery? Sure I wanted to go. ...

Husband turns up with gun, wine in hand (Rocky Mountain News)
A Boulder husband and father missing since Oct. 5 was found late Tuesday, after showing up at a Boulder home with a loaded gun and half-full bottle of wine to ask for help, police said...

A manga adventure through the world of wine (International Herald Tribune)
A comic-book figure, the hero of the manga series "The Drops of the Gods," has quickly become the most influential voice in Asia's wine markets...

Cefalo's Wine Cellar files for bankruptcy (Miami Herald)
Cefalo's Wine Cellar in the Grove, the wine shop owned by former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Jimmy Cefalo, has filed for bankruptcy liquidation...

Wine tasting to benefit juvenile diabetes research (The Downers Grove Sun)
Meet the man behind Mollydooker Australian Winery - Sparky Marquis. The business owner and winemaker will be on hand during a wine-tasting event hosted by Michael and Teresa Savage to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The event will take place at noon Oct. 25 at Carlucci Restaurant, 1801 Butterfield Road, Downers Grove...

Great Wine Lists in Pittsburgh?
He specializes in ordering wines not offered by the LCB. Other places with interesting lists are Il Pizzaiolo in Mt. Lebanon (southern Italy only - many unique to Pgh bottles) and D'vine Wine, a wine-centric tapas bar in the North ...

Barlow Vineyards 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon
Todays wine is offered at over 15% off, but order six or more bottles and well throw in Free Ground Shipping! Just enter coupon code: NAPASPY and your savings will be applied at checkout ...

Wine Time (The Augusta Chronicle)
WHAT: This is an outstanding, elegant, top-end chardonnay that will stand up to any of the best. It is complex, but approachable; a wine that is meant for food. The wine has good fruit, but enough acid to keep everything in balance. It begins with a nice pear aroma, with touches of apple and vanilla. The flavor is heavily lemon and butter, with some apple. Nine months aging in French oak give it ...

Notes and Selections from the Wine & Spirits Top 100 Tasting
There are good public wine tastings and there are bad public wine tastings. The difference between the good ones and the bad ones can be quite dramatic. The bad ones are in crappy locations, are poorly organized, offer no food, ...

SA wine region in world's top ten (Adelaide Now)
THE Barossa has been named one of the world's top 10 wine destinations, by the world's largest online travel community TripAdvisor...

Noteworthy in the News: Pairing Wine with Movies, New Releases .
UB Group will begin selling wine in India through United Vintners. According to the press release, many global players in the wine business including Moet Hennessy, Diageo, and E&J Galo are all heading toward India as the industry ...

Wine Train into the West whets appetites (Rapid City Journal)
HILL CITY EUR” In its fourth year of heading toward Tin Mill Hill and the wilderness of the Black Hills, the 1880 Wine Train into the West was completely sold out weeks in advance of its Saturday and Sunday excursions. With four wines to sample, a delicious lunch and a slow ride to Keystone and back, riders found it was worth the ticket...

The stupid ideas just keep coming
So important is the industry that the states Department of Commerce commissioned a study earlier this year about wine tourism; among its findings were that by far the majority of people visit wineries for 2 reasons: to taste wine, ...

Differences in oaks
Oak is used mainly for the flavors it imparts to wine. The best known is vanillin, the same molecule as natural vanilla, but there are others: spicy flavors, especially clove (eugenol); cedar, pine, and coconut (lactones); cinnamon and ...

Sipping and swooning with Italy's wine royalty (Miami Herald)
The royalty of Italian wine visited Miami this week, bringing some of that country's rarest and best wines. The group of 18 top producers, called Il Grandi Marchi, is led by Tuscan pioneer Piero Antinori...

Buy Wine on the Web?
Amazon.com to start selling soon; Wall Street Journal already doing it...

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