San Francisco Wine Tours News for 12/07/2007



Unique Gifts for the Wine Enthusiast
The market is flooded with gift ideas, but finding a unique gift for a wine enthusiast can be challenging. The last thing you want to do is buy them a tasteless gift or something they already own. Wine club memberships and gift ...

Mexico: Striving to Make a Better Wine (ABC News)
Mexico is one of Latin America's oldest wine-producing countries...

Chilean Tourism and Wine Tasting - e-Travel Blackboard (press release)

e-Travel Blackboard (press release)

Chilean Tourism and Wine Tasting
e-Travel Blackboard (press release), Australia - Dec 4, 2007
Last Thursday, the Chilean Embassy-Pro Chile, hosted a very successful event ' Chilean Tourism and Premium Wine Tasting' at the Australian Museum. .
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Drying up
The room used for drying grapes to make vin de paille ("straw wine" since the grapes used to be dried on straw mats). Today the grapes are dried on shelves in a well ventilated room with fans. Domaine M Chapoutier, Tain lHermitage, ...

For a relaxing picnic, pair wine with fast food; enjoy (The Sentinel)
ALLENTOWN - It takes about 20 minutes or less to make a meal into a special occasion on a summer evening. Best of all, it requires no time in the kitchen. Just grab a bottle of chilled wine from the fridge or State Store, breeze through a fast food drive-through for dinner salads and find a picnic table that's in the shade...

To Cork or Not to Cork: The Wine Industry's Battle over the Bottleneck (Knowledge at Wharton)
Anyone who has popped open a bottle of wine will agree with George Taber that it is one of the few sounds in the world that brings true joy to the listener. But if the opponents of cork have their way, that sound might disappear, as Taber, a veteran business journalist and author, explains in his new book, To Cork or Not to Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle ...

Preparing for a wine tasting - Richmond Times Dispatch

Preparing for a wine tasting
Richmond Times Dispatch, VA - Dec 4, 2007
Matt Lake of Beer & Wine Westpark shared some tips, good for any tasting. "You should avoid brushing your teeth one or two hours before you taste," he said. .
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Wine Club
This offer includes the following benefits : A one day Rhone wine tour with your servitor (me), tee shirts signed by the whole family, exclusive pictures and videos of Domaine Rouge-Bleu life (which wont be available at the regular ...

2000 Foris Fly-Over Red
It's always fun to open dusty bottles pulled from the back shelves of wine shops. Such is the case with the 2000 Foris Fly-Over Red from the Rogue Valley of Oregon. This is a traditional claret blend of 53% Merlot, 27% Cabernet ...

Wine.com lets public choose its top 100 list (BizJournals)
Taking after the popular "American Idol" TV show, Wine.com unveiled its Wine.com 100 on Wednesday, touting it as "the industry's first top 100 list based entirely on customer preferences."..

Local senior residents take wine tasting trip - Warwick Advertiser

Local senior residents take wine tasting trip
Warwick Advertiser - 14 minutes ago
The Warwick Valley Winerys post and beam Tasting Room, with its wood burning stove, provides visitors an opportunity to explore its offerings of wines, .
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The Chronicle Wine Selections: Tawny Port (San Francisco Chronicle)
At its simplest, tawny Port has a characteristic caramel-like sweetness that people often love. Tawnies receive longer aging in wood than ruby Port. That not only adds flavor but helps make the wine longer-lived; an open bottle of 40-year-old tawny Port will...

Wine tasting: Swirl, sniff, sip - Richmond Times Dispatch

Wine tasting: Swirl, sniff, sip
Richmond Times Dispatch, VA - Dec 4, 2007
Wine and Beer Westpark owner Matt Lake demonstrates proper wine tasting steps. Photo By: DEAN HOFFMEYER/TIMES-DISPATCH Looking to host your first .
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WHEN GIVING WINE, YOUR TASTES ARE MOOT (Lexington Herald-Leader)
wine q & a WHEN GIVING WINE, YOUR TASTES ARE MOOT This time of year, many people ask me what wines to buy as gifts for relatives, friends and co-workers. My answer? Get a wine to please the giftee, not the giver. Sounds like a no-brainer, but people get passionate about their wine -- and they want you to like it, too. Even if you really don't. Just take a deep breath and go with the flow. ...

Winery changes again put on hold - San Diego Union Tribune

Winery changes again put on hold
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - 21 hours ago
But yesterday, the Board of Supervisors delayed for four months its decision on proposed land-use rules that would allow wine-tasting rooms. .
Boutique winery plan needs more study North County Times
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Red Wine Review: Sassetti Rosso di Montalcino
From Montalcino comes the huge, ageworthy, and expensive wines known as Brunello. Montalcino is a very hot growing area south of the Chianti region in Italy, with the main grape being a strain of Sangiovese EUR though down there they may ...

Calabria brings Southern Italian cuisine to Millbury - Worcester Telegram

Calabria brings Southern Italian cuisine to Millbury
Worcester Telegram, MA - 22 hours ago
Lynchs Riverview Wine & Spirits, 16 Mendon St., Uxbridge, will have an in-store Grand Holiday Wine Tasting from 1 to 4 pm Sunday. .
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Valpolicella Wines From Italy - Episode #365
Having trouble viewing this video? Try the Quicktime version. Comments on this episode(9) Leave a comment EUR. EURtop 10 ???EUREUR by wine-ot; EURtop 10, woo hoo, new i went home early cause of the snow for somethingEUR ...

John Cleeses Wine For the Confused
Now John Cleese turns his attention to the subject of wine in Wine for the Confused, originally broadcast as a special on Food Network. Listen to our interview with John Cleese. "Don't let anyone ever try to tell you what wine you like, ...

On uncorked -- Cascade Wine Co. weekly open houses (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Cascade Wine Co., a full-service wine emporium, is hosting a weekly open house from 2-6 p.m. each Saturday this month and into January. The events feature complimentary wine tastings with a spokesperson from a Washington winery, plus cheeses and other tasty treats...

Robert Parker and Wine Advocate on Israeli wine
Its been an open secret that Wine Advocate (Robert Parkers wine publication EUR a fellow Terp! but more importantly, the most famous wine critic) and Parker recently tasted Israels 100 best wines, as determined by a small group of ...

The Winchester Star - Winchester Star

The Winchester Star
Winchester Star, VA - 2 hours ago
Next years festival is slated for April 29-May 4, but Rosenberger said he would like to hold a wine-tasting and fine arts festival, similar to one that was .
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Wine Spectator Tasting Procedures and Taster Profiles - Wine Spectator (subscription)

Wine Spectator Tasting Procedures and Taster Profiles
Wine Spectator (subscription), CA - 13 hours ago
Every issue of Wine Spectator magazine contains from 400 to more than 1000 wine reviews with detailed tasting notes and analysis. We set stringent standards .
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Short Trips: Yamhill County pours on fine tastes - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Short Trips: Yamhill County pours on fine tastes
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Dec 5, 2007
"It's made like a beer, but sipped like a wine. People are curious about sake, and our tasting room offers tours seven days a week to show how sake's made. .
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Wine export growth hits new low (Adelaide Now)
THE growth of Australia's wine exports has slowed to the lowest level, by volume, in nine years, figures show...

Wine Can Be Dessert (Aspen Daily News)
As with any wine, you have to start with good grapes in order to make great wine, and dessert wine is no exception. A dessert wine grape is any grape that hangs on the vine after the regular harvest is completed...

Wine export growth slows again (The West Australian)
The growth of Australia's wine exports has slowed to the lowest level, by volume, in nine years, figures show. Wine exports grew in volume terms by 44 million litres in the year ended November 2007, the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation says...

Oldies but Goodies
I want to tell you, particularly you NYC readers about two sick wines that you might have thought were gone forever, but are somehow amazingly back on the shelves of a few local wine stores. Yes, during some recent Brooklyn browses, ...

Find yourself in wine heaven at weekly tastings - Delaware Beachcomber

Find yourself in wine heaven at weekly tastings
Delaware Beachcomber, DE - 23 hours ago
He said the first wine tasting drew 15 to 20 people and now, during the summer, it can go over 100 people. "In the summer, there is not enough room in the .
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Coffee, Pine and Bacon Fat
Ive just been so busy with the gig and all the new wines Ive had to learn. Its like Italian wine is a memory from childhood, at this point. But when I get together with my friends, they all ask me to bring some wine from IWGs house. ...



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