San Francisco Wine Tours News for 12/22/2007
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| D.C. Council Could Ease Wine Import Limits (WTOP Radio Network) WASHINGTON (AP) - Some good news for wine lovers. A decades-old law restricting the right of D.C. residents to import wine may soon be changed. D.C. Council member Jim Graham has introduced a bill that would boost the volume of wine a person could have shipped into the city to two cases per month... | |
Ankeny's World of Wine organizes tasting parties - DesMoinesRegister.com
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Tasting Wine: 2007s most memorable white wines are a varied lot - Examiner.com
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FBI joins fake wine probe (UPI) FBI officials at the agency's Chicago office say an agent with the art and antiquities fraud unit is working with a national inquiry into counterfeit wine... | |
Events for wine lovers (The Olympian) The Northwest is known for its creation and love of microbrews. But Washington - and even South Sound itself - has its share of fine wineries as well as wine lovers... | |
EURUN-WINED: No need for a pretentious show of swishing and . - The Patriot Ledger
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Geyserville Inn - San Francisco Chronicle
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Sunday Grand Tasting tickets on sale - TCPalm
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Naples Wine Festival set to auction off three luxury vehicles (The News-Press) Three incomparable automobiles are among the exquisite wine, fantasy trips and ultra-luxury lots to be auctioned and raffled off at the 2008 Naples... | |
Events for wine lovers - The Olympian
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Book Review: Hip Tastes by Courtney Cochran Not only did wine out sell beer last year, but you are officially the fastest growing segment of the wine consumer market. Good times, indeed. So if youre young and trendy EUR or both EUR and looking for a solid introduction to wine, ... | |
Heads up: Wine Advocate Released Quick heads up that the Wine Advocate tastings on Israeli wines have just been released. The magazine was just mailed yesterday morning, so it should be arriving in subscribers mailboxes shortly and the article will be on the eRobert ... | |
La Boheme Restaurant hosts tutored Wine Tasting/Art Exhibition - Waterford Today
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Last Chance To Win! Raffle Extended Thru Sunday Think of this as a charity Blue Light Special. This is your chance to swoop in and for as little as $10, sneak off with something great from a food or wine blogger somewhere in the world. Check it out... | |
Napa Valley Wine Tour Jerry was the guide fom Wine Country Tour Shuttle. He's been in the business for more than twenty years, and could reel off facts about San Francisco and the surrounding counties like nobody's business. He said he was married, ... | |
Shopping for wine It's the time of year when wine flows at holiday gatherings. Wine is a terrific gift and also a necessity if you are entertaining. But if you're like me -- not a wine expert -- you appreciate helpful suggestions from trusted sources and ... | |
Traffic To Wine Sites Up 35% In 2007 (WebProNews) Internet traffic to Web sites that sell wine has increased 35 percent in 2007 compared to 2006 according to Winezap.com. That increase is more than twice as much as retail e-commerce traffic over all, which is up 15 percent over 2006 according to Hitwise . read more.. | |
Wine worth millions (The Halifax Daily News) A couple who lost their multimillion-dollar wine collection to a sewer backup has won a lawsuit against their insurance provider in B.C. Supreme Court... | |
B.C. court says insurance firm must compensate couple for loss of rare wine (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) VANCOUVER - A couple who lost their multi-million dollar wine collection to a sewer backup has won a lawsuit against their insurance provider in B.C. Supreme Court... | |
Ice, ice baby: Wisconsin is perfect for making ice wine, but outside of Wollersheim, no wineries here produce it (Portage Daily Register) You would think Wisconsin, which is often coated with a thick layer of ice this time of year, would be the perfect location to make something that has ice in the title.But ice wine, a sweet nectar that can only be made in regions of the world like Wisconsin, is not made by most Wisconsin wineries."It's been around for a long time, but it's just becoming more known to the general public," said ... | |
City OKs Wine Tasting Event, Adopts Budget - St. Ignace News (subscription)
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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... | |
Christmas Presents and Spiders The left one is a Chablis from Laroche 2003..given to me by a business aquaintance..he read the article in the newspaper and sai he only then realised that I knew something about wine. The Quinto do Crasto Reserve 2005 from the Douro ... | |
Tasting Wine: 2007's most memorable white wines are a varied lot If you were to ask me, "What are the best wines you tasted in 2007?" I would not be able to give a succinct answer. However, I can come up with a list of the most memorable wines - memorable in a good way, that is... | |
'One glass of wine is all it takes' (Pretoria News) If you thought having a couple of glasses of wine at a dinner party and driving home was safe - think again. You might find, as we did, that one glass of wine is enough to fail a breathalyser test and land you on the wrong side of the law... | |
Hecht & Bannier 2003 Faugeres TOP SECRET ALERT: Due to the overwhelming popularity of this wine, we went out and sought an additional allocation of this unbelievable and rare wine value. This South of France (Languedoc-Roussillon) gem is a full, rich and round ... | |
How to Find Good, Quality Wines on a Budget In a recent article in the New York Times, 'Drink and Be Merry: Wine Prices to Rise,' Eric Asimov writes that a combination of our weak dollar and the rising price of oil will cause wine prices to rise in the next few months. ... | |
Council approves summer wine-tasting - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
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Wine tasting for Christmas, anyone? - Scotts Valley Banner
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In Search of Some Good Sake Well folks, it's 5:21 in the morning and I'm eating ramen under the blinking neon lights of Minato-Ku, Tokyo. Vinography has hopped off to Japan in search of a little R&R and some good sake. Like most of our trips, ... |

