San Francisco Wine Tours News for 10/30/2008



UK consumers cut wine spending (Decanter.com)
UK wine drinkers are cutting the amount they spend on a bottle, with price now the most important factor in buying wine, according to a new survey...

Three admit to scheme to sell stolen wine (The Fresno Bee)
Two Santa Rosa men and a Napa man have admitted their involvement in a scheme to sell high-end wine stolen from a wine company. Read comments..

USB (Port) Wine
Usb_frontlabelphoto. New packaging from 6 West Design:. The premise behind this design stemmed from the recent TTB/Cola regulatory changes, protecting Portugal's geographic indication which inhibits any winery who was not ...

AbleGrape: Niche Wine Search
Over the next few weeks, Im going to be writing about some cool technology sites that focus on wine. Having just come back from the first ever Wine Bloggers Conference, its all fresh in my mind. My first big find was AbleGrape. ...

USB "Port" Wine Gets You Drunk At 480Mb/s
Due to a new EU trade rule, wineries can't use the word "port" on their label unless the wine was actually made in Portugal. California's Peltier Station Winery, however, discovered (or should I say invented?) a loophole: they called ...

E Wine of the Week By Bruce Cochran Big Zins Oh, those hedonistic reds Hello Everyone, (Fayetteville Free Weekly)
Lets get ready for fall with a discussion of a favorite red wine for many of us, and maybe a new discovery for some of our new readers. Try a new wine this week!..

Three admit to scheme to sell stolen wine (San Francisco Chronicle)
Two Santa Rosa men and a Napa man have admitted their involvement in a scheme to sell high-end wine stolen from a wine company. Just before their preliminary hearing was about to begin Wednesday, Jordan Cross, Jarrett Berg and Kevin Hall admitted to their...

For wine lovers on a budget, try montepulciano d'Abruzzo (International Herald Tribune)
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo is a lively, juicy red wine that offers reliable refreshment that is as versatile as barbera or good Beaujolais...

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...

Heavy metal wine--a health risk?
The other shoe has dropped: it turns out wine doesn't solve every health problem from A to Z. Researchers in England have found that red and white wines from most European nations carry potentially dangerous levels of at least seven ...

USB port, GOP glasses, Joe Six-Pack, Brunello - sipped and spit
Unable to legally call a port style wine made outside of Portugal EURPort,EUR Peltier Station Winery is calling their wine EURUSBEUREURyou know, as in those ports on the side of your computer that you never seem to have enough of. ...

Policeman accused of stealing wine from M&S after daughter was murdered is found dead in suspected suicide (Daily Mail)
A top police officer who was arrested on suspicion of stealing wine from a food store has been found dead at his home in an apparent suicide...

Wine Bloggers Conference 2008: Reactions to New York Wines
Last weekend, as you already know, I had the privilege of traveling to Santa Rosa, CA for the first annual Wine Bloggers Conference, where I was joined by more than 160 other members of the world wide wine industry for three days of ...

Dangerous Wine or Dangerous Reporting?
Witness the headlines that are rapidly rocketing their way across the internet: Heavy Metals Found in Wine, Metals in wine may be health danger, and Euro wines carrying potentially dangerous levels of heavy metals. ...

fsm spotted in wine glass
I was sitting out last weekend enjoying a nice glass of wine when I looked into the reflection of my glass and noticed an image of His Noodly Appendage staring back at me. I think you can make it out but it becomes so much clearer when ...

Dr. Frank winery named "Greatest Wine Producer" in NE (The Ithaca Journal)
For the fifth consecutive year, Dr. Franks Vinifera Wine Cellars has been named EURGreatest Wine ProducerEUR in the Atlantic Northeast region by Wine Report 2009...

Three admit to scheme to sell stolen wine (KFTY TV50 Santa Rosa)
Two Santa Rosa men and a Napa man have admitted their involvement in a scheme to sell high-end wine stolen from a wine company...

Stolen wine scheme gets 3 sent to jail (Napa Valley Register)
SANTA ROSA EUR A Napa man and two Santa Rosa men have admitted their involvement in a scheme to sell high-end wine stolen from a wine company...

Rodin, Pollock and Harlan: A Question of Value
The beauty of Vinfolio's free Wine Price File is that the mystery for collectors as to what their wines are worth on the open market has been stripped away. There is no more mystery as to the value of a bottle of 1997 Harlan ($1180EURup ...

Heavy Metals Found in Wine
Just one daily glass of red or white wines from most European nations gives drinkers dangerous doses of at least seven heavy metals, UK researchers find...



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