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Make yourself at home with Joseph SwanRod Berglund is well known as the owner-winemaker of Joseph Swan Vineyards, the historic Russian River Valley winery specializing in vineyard-designated Pinot Noir and old-vine Zinfandel. What's probably less known is that the Sonoma County native is also an...
SF Gate Sunday, September 20, 2009Anderson Valley Pinot NoirAnderson Valley was once a quiet, rustic haven, shut to outsiders but for a long, winding low road and a vertiginous, winding high road. In the 1800s, the local Boontling dialect was invoked to confound outsiders. A century later, the valley's foggy, redwood-...
SF Gate Sunday, September 20, 2009Wine lovers protest cheap imported wine marketed as B.C. wineLow-cost bulk wines from California to South Africa are being sold in Canadian liquor stores as B.C. wines, uncorking howls of protest from wine lovers at home and abroad.
Topix.net Sunday, September 20, 2009Eating the Adirondacks :: A Locavore's Dilemma in the North CountryThere's no better way to start an Adirondacks tour than with a boat ride. The fact that it was not a penile boat, , but a pontoon boat was, at first, disappointing.
Topix.net Sunday, September 20, 2009Roads Traveled: State is quietly widening homegrown wine choicesFruit of the vine, makes me feel fine ... so take a tour and sip chardonnay to dandelion wine.
Topix.net Sunday, September 20, 2009Is Wine Food? : PALATE PRESSSo why the persistent and pervasive belief that wine is food? For that we have to go back through history and then up to the present where, at least in New York State where I live, wine is regulated as food.
Topix.net Sunday, September 20, 2009Wines of Virtue - Environmentally Friendly VinoDoes it really matter that a wine is bottled at the vineyard? Would it not be a huge environmental statement by the
wine industry if all wine was shipped in bulk - thus saving transportation costs - and bottled in the country of sale? Why is it that it is only the cheap stuff (bag in box, litre bottles of red 'stuff') appear on the bottom shelf that are bottled in the UK? Those delicious Howard Park wines from Western Australia would be considerably cheaper if someone in a Southampton trading estate syphoned them into UK bottles... and we would could all feel terribly smug at being so... well... virtuous. How many people lift up those weighty premium bottles and consider the environmental impact; not only of transportation but the energy and resources used to make such heavy bottles? Is it all modern perception? Why do we need bottles at all when we could use the 'sacks' such as those developed by Arniston Bay? I ask as Waitrose has slipped on to their shelves four wines under the
Spittoonbiz Sunday, September 20, 2009Can a Kosher Israeli wine become grand cru?For the past six years, Yitzhak Cohen has supervised the grape harvest as Druze and Thai workers carefully separate the clusters from the vines and ready them for transport to his Ramot Naftali winery in northern Israel.
Topix.net Sunday, September 20, 2009Nederburg auction down on last yearTakings at this year's Nederburg Auction were down 16% on 2008, with the economic downturn depressing prices across all categories.
Decanter.com Sunday, September 20, 2009Domaine Sorin Cotes de Provence Rose 2008A happy summer rose from the Cotes de Provence region of France. It shows strawberry, melon and pink grapefruit rind, with subtle wafts of thyme. Rating: 3.40 / 5.00
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