San Francisco Wine Tours News for 10/26/2008

Wine Tasting Club Event - Sponsored by Cameron Hughes Wine
The Wine Tasting Club held their monthly wine tasting event at the home of Sharyn and Larry Rossi Saturday night and had a great turnout. The event was sponsored by Cameron Hughes Wine and Doug Rogers who graciously provided the wines ...

The Valley Wine Shack new on West Napa St. (Sonoma Index-Tribune)
When Windee Smith moved to Sonoma, she eventually decided that the commute to her businesses in San Francisco (a restaurant and wine store) were too much, so she sold them. Then she decided to use that experience to do something nice in her new hometown...

Monday in the Minervois
The French oaks imparted more smooth tannins and lighter tastes, the American oak was what youd expect, big and brawny with rough tannins, and the Russian oak added a perfumy aspect to the wine that I hadnt been expecting. ...

Wine Bloggers Conference 2008: Some Pictures
Just some of the Long Island wines poured at the hugely popular New York wine after party. NYtasting. The crowd enjoying said New York wines. View. More pictures from this hike tomorrow.and some video too. This was at the top where we ...

2004 Monteza - Tupun Winery Reserva Malbec
One of the six component varietals that go into a true French Bordeaux wine, Malbec (named for the Hungarian peasant who first brought the grape to France) is a thin-skinned grape that requires more time to mature than its Bordeaux ...

Big Read consludes with Library Wine Tasting fundraiser (Reno Gazette-Journal)
The concluding event of the Churchill Community Big Read will be held tomorrow, Saturday, with the Annual Churchill County Public Library Wine Tasting and Fundraiser at the Fallon Convention Center. Tickets are $40 fa couple, $25 for an individual...

Milwaukee's best wine list, 2008: Balzac (OnMilwaukee.com)
Balzac, 1716 N. Arlington Pl., is an experience. The knowledgeable staff seems unfailingly happy to see you, and is helpful in offering suggestions for wine or menu items. And nearly one in five OnMilwaukee.com readers says Balzac has the city's best wine list...

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...

Rare Portuguese wine gets a second chance (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A 15-minute car ride west of downtown Lisbon, on a sliver of farmland cloistered by tightly bunched apartment blocks, the grape harvest is just in. And it looks like a storied Portuguese wine will be rescued from near-extinction...

Special Foodventure #82: White Trash Wine Tasting (Eagle Rock)
If you think wine tastings are strictly snooty, frou-frou affairs -- chances are you haven't attended something like Colorado Wine Company's Annual White Trash Wine Tasting, where fine wines are paired with the most exquisite foods ...

Monteza - Tupun Winery 2004 Reserva Malbec
Todays wine is offered at 25% off, but if you order six bottles or more, well save you even more by throwing in Free Ground Shipping EUR but only if you enter coupon code MALBECSPY. ...

Postcard from reader: Northwest wine region impresses local businessman (Knoxville News Sentinel)
"I can't wait to go back. I definitely want to spend more time exploring," says Thad Cox Jr., proprietor of Ashe's Wine and Spirits of Knoxville...

School foundation to hold wine tasting reception (Courier-Post)
The Deptford Township Foundation for Educational Excellence will sponsor a wine tasting reception Nov. 10 at Auletto Caterers, 1849 Cooper St., in the Almonesson section of the township...

Show time for global master of wine (North Queensland Register)
At a dinner party or a restaurant where a series of wines are to be served, Debra Meiburg asks for a cup to spit the wine into...

NOTHING TO 'WINE' ABOUT (New York Post)
Priya, a 27-year-old information scientist, was looking for a thinker who could not only carry a conversation but also make it interesting. Just as we hoped, Saul, a 28-year-old media analyst, delivered. During a late night date at Pierre Loti wine...

The Battle For Wine and How I Learned to Love Alice Feiring
This puts her at odds with American wine and probably modernity too. And yet this strange and compelling perspective also gave her open entry directly into the hearts of the audience I watched her address yesterday. ...

'The haunting' at Caledonia Wine Cottage (Park Hills Daily Journal)
CALEDONIA EUR” Pepper Carpenter didnt believe in ghosts before she bought the Caledonia Wine Cottage. She was a skeptic who thought it was all in a persons imagination. Thats all changed for the former school teacher from St. Louis. Several unexplainable events that have taken place at the historic landmark have now made Carpenter a believer...

Putting water in my own wine boycott
Events have conspired, the plot has thickened and now I call on you to say EURœnonEUR to only one-third of Beaujolais Nouveau this year! As you may recall, last week I called on you to ditch. [[ This is a content summary only. ...

South African Wine
The wines of Lourensford have quickly become some of the region's best...

Wine speed dating at the USWBC
14 wines, 14 producers, 5 mintues each, all trying to get me to love their wine. Or at least take them out on a date. Was I able to make a sound judgement of the wines? Only as much as you can expect in 5 minutes. ...

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