San Francisco Wine Tours News for 12/31/2007



New Year's Wine Resolutions 2008
Last year, I made a set of wine resolutions and I did pretty well. My Spanish wine adventures led me to enjoy wines made from grapes and in regions I never knew before. I drank lots and lots of sparkling wine and never got tired of it, ...

Sparkling wine season bubbles up (Telegraph-Forum)
Fans of sparkling wine consider it a year-round drink, as good for sipping on the deck on a balmy summer night as for a special occasion. But for the more casual wine drinker, the fizzy stuff means the holidays...

Wine chief shattered by security (Herald Sun)
A MELBOURNE brewery executive was on the verge of tears when he had to smash two bottles of Australia's best-known wine at Melbourne Airport...

Wine Tour of Dry Creek Valley
One of my favorite wine tasting destinations is Dry Creek Valley, an easy hour drive from San Francisco. This area feels undiscovered compared to the neighboring wine areas of Sonoma and Napa Valley. It has no traffic, no crowds and ...

Wine fund as an alternative investment avenue (The Star)
APART from satiating your palate, how acquainted are you with the idea of wine as a fine commodity?..

Enobytes Top Wine Surprises for 2007
Weve released our top wine surprises for 2007. These wines may or may not still be available for purchase. If you laid some of these down for consumption later, you are a savvy enophile. ...

Rosenthal - The Malibu Estate 2006 Estate Chardonnay
The Wine Spies feature one exceptional wine each day EUR and we only bring you wines that we ourselves seek out and love. Always, the wines are great. Sometimes greater than great, as is the case with todays wine from Rosenthal EUR The ...

A Toast To Green Beer And Wine
You may have already considered serving locally produced, organic foods to your holiday guests, but what about the beer and wine? Significant amounts of water and fossil fuels are used to grow conventional grapes, barley, and hops, ...

Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. Taps Newlands as Senior Vice President For U.S. Commercial Development (Centre Daily Times)
Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. (Fortune Brands, Inc. (NYSE: FO)), a global leader in premium spirits and wine, today announced that Bill Newlands, former president of Beam Wine Estates will rejoin the company to serve in a newly created role as senior vice president, U.S. Commercial Development. The company also announced that Jim Clerkin is leaving Beam Global Spirits & Wine to spend more ...

The Art of New Year's Eve Excess
The soberness is important under this understanding of excessive because without out a certain degree of soberness we can neither appreciate nor think about the absurd amounts of good wine and spirit that we will be consuming. ...

White: The Wine Industrys Future
December 31, 2007. Michael White, an expert on climate change and the wine industry, says a spiking number of hot days could spell major changes for winemakers...

Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. Taps Newlands as Senior Vice President For U.S. Commercial Development (Finanzen.net)
Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. [Fortune Brands, Inc. (NYSE: FO)], a global leader in premium spirits and wine, today announced that Bill Newlands, former president of Beam Wine Estates will rejoin the company to serve in a ...

Call for entries announced for 3rd Annual Johnstown Film & Wine Festival (The Daily American)
The Johnstown Film & Wine Festival announces a call for entries for its third annual event, which is set for July 10-12, 2008. Original short films of 30 minutes or less are eligible for the competition, and the entry deadline is March 31, 2008...

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...

Tips for choosing a champagne or sparkling wine (Danville Register & Bee)
What should a buyer look for when choosing a sparkling wine for a special event? Some people prefer dry wines and others sweet wines. When looking at champagnes, bottles will generally be marked to show its level of dryness or sweetness. Ranging from driest to sweetest, words to look for are "natural," "brut," "extra-dry," "demi-sec" and "doux." "Try different kinds until you find one you like," ...

Who Will Be The Bourdain of Wine?
Almost every book about wine props up the romantic notion that great wine mostly comes from privileged ground in the Old World where centuries of learning and adaption to the earth produce these ethereal beverages. ...

Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. Taps Newlands as Senior Vice President For U.S. Commercial Development (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DEERFIELD, Ill.----Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. [Fortune Brands, Inc. ], a global leader in premium spirits and wine, today announced that Bill Newlands, former president of Beam Wine Estates will rejoin the company to serve in a newly created role as senior vice president, U.S...

Want fresh breath? Have a glass of wine.
According to an article published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, drinking wine -- red or white -- may help fight certain types of oral bacteria. Apart from making your breath fresher, reducing bacteria can also help ...

Sparkling wine and Champagne trivia and history (Canada.com)
- Strictly speaking, sparkling wine is only a wine with a gas problem (i.e., it's carbonated wine, hooch infused with carbon dioxide gas). Some of these sparkling wines are carbonated naturally. For example, old school Champagne gets its bubbles from an age-old process called "methode Champenoise."..

8 Wine Industry Trends to Expect in 2008
The green movement in wine will continue to grow in 2008. And for many good reasons. First, organic and Biodynamic farming is good for the environment, as it eschews harmful pesticides and herbicides. Second, committing to EURgreenEUR ...



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