Farm Bureau honors families that have farmed for 100 years (via The Napa Valley Register) Z HOWARD YUNE Napa Valley Register 17 minutes ago • HOWARD YUNE In the course of a century and more, the vast majority of Napa County’s pioneer farming families have moved on, selling off their land for more urban lifestyles. [...]
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Growing crowd of celebrity wines take spotlight (via Naples Daily News) Fancy having Brangelina, Drew Barrymore and Dan Aykroyd over for dinner? No problem, they’ll even bring the wine. OK, maybe the stars themselves won’t show up, but their wines will appear with just a wave of a credit card. You might start with an [...]
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Famed chef sells wine to finance next big project (via AFP) Food-lovers who miss dining at the tables of Ferran Adria’s elBulli restaurant can get another taste on Friday — of his wine, at least, as the famed Catalan chef auctions his celebrated collection. The sale, at upscale Sotheby’s auction house in New York, will [...]
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Wines from Vinho Verde delight and surprise (via The Napa Valley Register) I’m just back from Vinho Verde, the wine region in northwestern Portugal right against the Spanish Galician border, and I’ve found my ideas about wines from that region totally changed. Most of the Vinho Verde wines I’ve had, even on previous trips to [...]
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Wines to Drink While You Wait (via Food 52) We may have food down cold, but wine? This is where we’ll conquer it. Join us; we don’t want to drink alone. Today: Find yourself waiting? Grab a glass — we know what to pour. A few weeks ago it was my turn to host book [...]
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Wine critics say cheers to Bordeaux’s new vintage (via AFP) Wine professionals declared themselves “pleasantly surprised” with the 2012 Bordeaux vintage but demand from China was expected to be weak due to losses on 2010 wines. China is currently Bordeaux’s biggest market in terms of volume and second in value, but Chinese buyers were expected [...]
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Master of Wine Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan shared her knowledge of Champagne with Fox Business on April 4, then wowed Fox’s Tracy Byrnes by sabering the top of a Champagne bottle. Watch below: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
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High hopes for Japan’s wine in the old world (via AFP) A thousand years ago, a vine that had travelled from the Caspian Sea coast along Asia’s Silk Road arrived in Japan, where its fruit was heralded as having unique medicinal purposes. Now the “Koshu grape” fills terraces on the foothills of Mount Fuji, where [...]
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The California-based Wine Institute has announced a month-long series of events to highlight sustainable winegrowing and winemaking in the Golden State. Some wineries are providing discounts to those who bring in recyclables, while others are offering free tours of their organic winemaking facilities. Many of the events, which also include hands-on workshops and eco-tours, center [...]
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The U.S. government has officially recognized yet another winegrape-growing region in the state of Oregon. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau in February established the 74,900-acre “Elkton Oregon” region in Douglas County as the state’s 17th American Viticultural Area (AVA). “By gaining AVA status, winegrowers and winemakers within the Elkton Oregon AVA can [...]
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