San Francisco Wine Tours News for 10/27/2008



Doubts about the wine label
A little more than a year ago, I wrote an article saying that Chinese vineyards commonly fib about the vintage of their labels, and even about whether whats in the bottles is actually wine or sugar water with some food coloring, ...

2004 Maloy ONeill Vineyards Fremère
Backgrounder: Paso Robles has long been established as a wine producing region that give other California regions a run for their money. With a climate and soils that make for perfect growing conditions for grapes, it is no wonder. ...

Doubts about the wine label (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
Wine could be the next category of consumer product to face charges of major fakery...

'No' vote would OK Sunday beer and wine in Ottawa (MLive.com)
Backers of a proposal to allow beer and wine sales on Sundays in Ottawa County will have to get people to vote "no" to get the measure approved. The "negative" wording on the Nov. 4 general election ballot is required by state law, according to Ottawa County Clerk Dan Krueger...

Over the Weekend - Gloria Estefan, Miami International Wine Fair .
We weren't entirely too impress with the wine fair, not because of the selection, but because once you've been to one you've sort of been to them all. One highlight though was the selection of Miami wines. Click to read the full recap. ...

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...

Vinfolio tracks wine for finicky oenophiles (BizJournals)
Steve Bachman created what has become a multimillion-dollar business because he got frustrated trying to keep track of his wine...

So what did I learn at the Wine Bloggers Conference?
By now, just about everybody who went to the Wine Bloggers Conference has blogged on it. In fact, most of them did it live from the conference. I didnt, because, among other things, I dont understand the idea of blogging live when no ...

What Makes Chinese Wine Red?
He has been in the Chinese wine industry for five years. After spending time in this dirty vat, he understood well many EURbehind the scenesEUR tricks. Should he reveal the secrets to the public? If he did, his company could be caught up in ...

Wine of the Week: Sauvignon Blanc
It seems we should still be drinking our 2005's, 06's, and 07,s, but I've just opened a bottle of the 2008 Veramonte Sauvignon Blanc Reserva, a gorgeously fresh and lively wine from Chile's Casablanca Valley. ...

Wine tourism highlighted on TripAdvisor (Decanter.com)
Wine tourism is getting more and more popular according to global travel website TripAdvisor...

Good Tastes On Food, Wine Fest Menu (Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post)
Celebrating the best of Texas wines, foods and entertainment, the 18th Annual Fredericksburg Food and Wine Fest will take place Saturday on Marktplatz...

Five things I learned at the Wine Bloggers Conference
Alice Fiering, the author of EURThe Battle for Wine and Love: How I Saved the World of Parkerization,EUR not only penned a fierce book on palate globalization, but fell into wine blogging at In Vino Veritas by accident, because she was sick ...

The Wine School at the Atlantic City Food & Wine Festival a Great Success (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Wine School's Premiere Wine Show is being hailed as "a great success." From October 17 - 19, nearly 2400 wine enthusiasts attended the school's Premiere Wine Show in Atlantic City. "I am stunned at how many people were there," says Wine School staffer Frank Cipparone. This was the first annual Premiere Wine Show, and was held in conjunction with the Atlantic City Food & Wine Festival...

Inspired byEUR.The Wine Blogger Conference
Last Friday & Saturday I attended the first annual Wine Bloggers Conference held at the venerable Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa. In addition to attending several tastings, meeting so many wonderful new & talented people, ...

Grapes expectations on high-end wine tours (BizJournals)
Travelers with discerning tastes, especially those who appreciate wine, are finding the perfect vacation pairing through Wine Tours of the World. The 2-year-old agency, based in Greenwood Village, prides itself on planning EUR and serving up EUR handcrafted trips around the globe with VIP treatment...

Portuguese Wine Grand Tasting
One room with over 150 Portuguese wines of all types: reds, whites, sparkling, and Ports. Wines made from indigenous grapes such as Touriga Nacional and Baga, as well as more international grapes like Syrah and Merlot. ...

Drinking Our Way Through the Miami International Wine Fair
The 2008 Miami International Wine Fair featured the usual aisles of wines and wine sellers, and the usual throngs of wine enthusiasts, and the usual clique of ink-stained wretches like myself who were there to scribble some notes while, ...

'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...

Wine production in Moldova up 43.8% (Moldova.org)
The wine companies in Moldova over January-September this year produced wines to the value of 1.407,8 billion lei (US$136.7million), an increase of 43.8% compared with the corresponding period last year. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, production of distilled alcoholic drinks totaled 376.8 million lei (US$36.6 million), a 37.1% increase year on year. Experts say wine production ...



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