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Wine Know-How

Do you break out into a cold sweat at the thought of having to order wine at a business lunch or dinner? Well, you’re not alone. According to a survey conducted by Impulse Research, 75 percent of wine drinkers say that they would be nervous about choosing the wine at...

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Videos 2008-02-22

Additional Resources

A career as a sommelier: one option for those wishing to enter the hospitality industry is to be a sommelier. Sommeliers are specialists in wine service. They have in-depth knowledge of wines as well as other beverages and food. They also advise chefs

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN customers in an upscale restaurant want to order a bottle of wine with dinner, they could be overwhelmed by or are unfamiliar with the selections offered on the wine list. When this is the case, they can ask the sommelier for advice. Sommelier is French...

Articles 2008-12-01

'Ben suggests that I ask for cold, hard cash. Why shouldn't we make

He's Out There So we're starting to do the exciting things to do with the wedding - the wedding list. This is a fabulous opportunity to play your friends off against each other to force them to be more generous than each other. Victoria had this really...

Articles 2008-05-01

AmericanWinery.com Places Winery Partners in Major Product Portals — Wineries May Now Access Millions of New Consumers Online

WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- AmericanWinery.com, the leading web-based marketplace for direct-to-consumer wine sales, is providing significant additional marketing for all winery partners utilizing its Consumer Direct Marketplace program. The company now lists its entire inventory of wines for sale on the top Internet wine portals, including Wine-searcher.com, WineZap.com, Snooth.com, Yahoo!...

Articles 2008-04-30

Healdsburg Dominates List of Top Tasting Room Experiences

Hanna, Three Others in Area Chosen by Leading National Wine Magazine HEALDSBURG, Calif., April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- There are wineries in each and every one of the 50 states -- more than 6,000 across the country, in all. But a new article in a leading national wine...

Articles 2008-04-17

Inertia Makes Wine Shipping Compliance Service Free To All Wineries

Free Access to Inertia's "REthink Compliance Tool" Aims to Increase Direct-To-Consumer Wine Sales NAPA, Calif. -- Inertia Beverage Group announced today that it has opened its REthink Compliance[TM] tool for use free of charge to any winery, fulfillment house or compliance company. Access to Inertia's REthink Compliance tool...

Articles 2008-04-16

L.A.'s new star-studded dining spots

Celebrities are often the first to discover the latest dining hot spots. Victoria Namkung checks out for USA TODAY the new Los Angeles restaurants where members of the A-list are wining and dining. Beso Sizzle factor: Sheryl Crow, Felicity Huffman, James Denton, Courteney Cox, Jessica Simpson,...

Articles 2008-04-09

Memphis blues haunt city, Calipari

SAN ANTONIO -- Time moves on. There is recruiting to be done. College basketball waits for no loser, or winner for that matter. But one thing first. How long does John Calipari stay haunted by this? For months? For years? Forever? ...

Articles 2008-04-09

Purdie Rogers Makes an Elegant Addition to Client Roster

Top-of-the-Line Refrigeration Manufacturer Marvel Extends Agency's Focus on Enhanced Lifestyle SEATTLE -- Purdie Rogers, a full-service advertising and public relations agency specializing in product and brand marketing with public relations for home lifestyle products and building materials, has signed Marvel Industries (www.lifeluxurymarvel.com) as the newest addition to its...

Articles 2008-04-08

Bashas' Named One of the 'Best Places to Work' in Arizona

Employees Recognize Family-Owned Grocer's Positive Work Environment CHANDLER, Ariz., April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Bashas' Family of Stores -- the family-owned grocer that operates Food City, AJ's Fine Foods, Sportsman's Wine & Spirits, Ike's Farmers Market, Eddie's Country Store, and both Bashas' and Bashas' Dine supermarkets --...

Articles 2008-04-08

POP

Sun Kil Moon April CALDO VERDE On my list of criminally neglected Americana auteurs, Mark Kozelek is right up there, battling for supremacy with Jason (Magnolia Electric Co, Songs: Ohia) Molina and Sam (Iron & Wine) Beam (what is these people's problem with their given names?). 'April'...

Articles 2008-04-06

Sambuca Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Legendary Upper West Side Trattoria to Host Celebratory Cocktails and Dinner, April 7th NEW YORK -- Sambuca, a landmark family-style Italian restaurant on New York's Upper West Side, today announced its 20th anniversary. Nestled near the southeast corner of 72nd and Central Park West, across from the entrance...

Articles 2008-04-02

Certificate greatly increases confidence in wine

David Wainer has temporarily traded statutes for sauvignon blanc,with the help of the New Zealand School of Food and Wine NZSFW. A partner in law firm Allen and Overy's international capitalmarkets department based in New York, Wainer negotiated a six-monthbreak from his intense workload. "I was looking to...

Articles 2008-04-02

IRI Announces Annual Top 30 Beer Brand Performers and Top 15 New Brands

Twenty of Top 30 Beer Brands are High-End Brands CHICAGO -- The IRI Beer, Wine and Spirits Practice today announced its highly-anticipated "Top 30 Beer Brand Performers in 2007," a revealing industry look at the 30 fastest growing beer brands across the beer market. IRI also unveiled its...

Articles 2008-03-31

Week of March 30, 2008

SUNDAY Family -- Make BALSAMIC-MARINATED FLANK STEAK for family day. Place 1 (1 1/2-pound) flank steak in a resealable plastic bag with 1/2 cup balsamic salad dressing; turn to coat. Refrigerate 6 to 24 hours. Remove steak; discard marinade. Grill, uncovered, 17 to 21 minutes for medium-rare to medium. Carve...

Articles 2008-03-30

The price of perfection

Wine To reach Corney & Barrow's city offices for their tasting of the 2005 vintage burgundies from Burgundy's Domaine de la Romanee-Conti DRC, you have to walk past a city watering hole called The Mint. Minted is what you need to be to lay your hands on...

Articles 2008-03-29

Vintage dining

The Chancellor is such a fool. If anything is going to drive us to drink it's the soaring cost of wine, beer and spirits. Are these muddle-headed puritans going to tax or prohibit every single one of our simple pleasures? There will soon be some diktat on dining...

Articles 2008-03-29

btw

The visit of the French President and his delicieuse wife has been a five-day orgy of mutual adulation. M. Sarkozy said: "British grandeur often inspired the dreams of my youth" and, "I love the English. I always thought that Europe needed the UK." There was, however, one small glitch amid...

Articles 2008-03-29

Ten 01's sommelier: suggest wine pairings that are right for the guests' palates

We are always pleased when business takes us to Portland, Ore.--not just because that business usually involves visiting wineries that produce Oregon's impressive Pinot Noirs, but also because we consider Portland to have one of the most exciting restaurant scenes in the United States. A fairly new addition...

Articles 2008-03-24

One-stop gourmet

Now you can eat, drink and buy your gourmet groceries all in oneplace. Mary Kirk-Anderson reports. My Favourite Things, on Tuam Street, is a work in progress, butas the blackboard list of milestones to date attests, it is well onthe way to living up to its name. The...

Articles 2008-03-20