San Francisco Wine Tours News for 10/31/2008



Wine Report 2009
I usually do not purchase annual wine buying guides but there is one annual guide that I do purchase each year, though it is not quite a buying guide. The Wine Report 2009, edited by Tom Stevenson (DK Publishing, Inc., October 2008, ...

Food-wine fest toasts veterans (River Oaks Examiner)
A food and wine tasting event both honors and benefits the Houston-area veterans community...

Wines of the World: Understanding champagne and sparkling wine (Fort Worth Business Press)
Bubbles rising in a tall flute resemble the stairway to heaven and sipping them is even more terrestrial. Friends are honored and flattered when offered Champagne or sparkling wine. Dale Carnegie must be right EUR” this is how to win friends and influence people...

Try a wine-tasting trip to Seattle (San Francisco Chronicle)
You've taken in the views atop the Space Needle and caught a flying salmon at Pike Place Market (well, maybe it was an overgrown perch). All that remains on your Seattle must-do list: Order a couple of flights of wine to get a better handle on this diverse...

The impossible pairing: Wine and Halloween candy
This year, in order to distract myself from the actual candy, I decided to put together a little Halloween candy and wine-pairing guide. This way I'll have something to sip while I hand out candy and wait for my kids to come home with ...

Googles Top 100 Wine Blogs
Weve come a long way since Alder Yarrow introduced the first wine blog back in 2004. Since then, the wine blogosphere has exploded and Ive lost track of the number of blogs out there. Amazingly enough, using a key term "wine blog" on ...

Spirits lurk at Caledonia Wine Cottage (Park Hills Daily Journal)
Spirits from years past are said to roam the halls at the Caledonia Wine Cottage. - Brad Giessing / Daily Journal..

Serious Grape: Reading About Historic Wines You'll Never Drink
That's because he tastes and reviews wine that will never touch the lips of most people on this planet. The old stuff. The rare stuff. The stuff of legends and fraud. The stuff that's sold at auction for six figures. ...

WTO issues in US-India wine dispute (AP via Yahoo! News)
A World Trade Organization appeals panel declined Thursday to uphold or overturn a February decision that sided with India in a dispute over taxes on American wine and spirits...

Lighter Wine Bottles Boost Profits (Fox 12 Oregon)
Thin is in at Fetzer Vineyards, at least when it comes to wine bottles: The Northern California winery is switching to a lighter weight glass to cut shipping costs and give the environment a break...

Heavy Metals Can Taint Wine (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
THURSDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The cardiac benefits of wine have been touted for years, but heavy metal contamination found in some European red and white wines could turn a health benefit into a hazard, British researchers report...

Heavy Metals Can Taint Wine
THURSDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) EUR” The cardiac benefits of wine have been touted for years, but heavy metal contamination found in some European red and white wines could turn a health benefit into a hazard, British researchers report ...

Celebrate with wine (Business Standard India)
Diwali is a good time for wine in many ways. The grape harvest is done in Europe and North America and, soon, winemakers from these will be winging their way to warmer parts of the globe to participate in dinners and tastings...

Google Now Allowing Ads For Beer, Wine & Champagne
Now, Google is allowing search ads for beer, wine and champagne to show up on Google.com. Googles policy says they allow these ads, EURśsince we consider beer, wine, and champagne to be products intended for the sale and consumption by ...

Twomey Twofer: Bar Carrera Gets Wine, Solex Gets Pizzettes
A couple of newish things going on in Frederick Twomeys world EUR” Bar Carreras Houston and LaGuardia location, the Spanish wine bar without wine, has finally gotten its beer and wine license, and has been serving twenty Spanish wines by ...

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 ...

Wine sold from RHS grape harvest (BBC News)
Wine from a vineyard planted at the RHS gardens in Wisley three years ago goes on sale...

The Vendetta Against Wine Drinkers in Michigan
Apparently the Michigan Attorney General has decided to appeal a Federal District Court decision that reiterated what everyone should have already known: It's unconstitutional to ban consumers from having wine shipped to them from out ...

United States Postal Service Shipping Wine By Summer?
This Bill would allow the USPS, a quasi-governmental corporation similar to Amtrak and the Federal Reserve, to ship wine like any of the other 250 million packages they ship each year. In theory, a winery could take some wine to the ...

WTO issues ruling in US-India wine dispute (AP via Yahoo! News)
A World Trade Organization appeals panel issued a ruling Thursday in a U.S.-India dispute over tariffs on American wine and spirits, but the decision neither overturned nor upheld an earlier ruling that sided with India...



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