Don’t know your pinot from your merlot? This basic menu of wine types from around the world will help you decipher any wine list. Beaujolais (boh-zhoh-lay): A light, fruity red wine from...
BORDEAUX, France AFP — French wine merchants fear the growing world financial crisis could cause their worst end-of-year sales squeeze since the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Bordeaux-based wine merchant, Jeffrey Davies, said that while the crisis triggered by the terror attacks on New York...
Wall Street is in shambles and unemployment is at its highest in five years. So if you had your eye on that Bordeaux future, perhaps you should take it down a few thousand dollars. A few more. There you go. $12. Actually, I've long considered $12 to be the sweet...
Britain is rediscovering its 800 years old taste for Bordeaux wines. After a collapse in sales to the UK five years ago, exports of medium and higher quality red Bordeaux, or claret, are booming - defying the economic crisis which haunts other parts of the French wine industry. ...
Affordable Bordeaux Wines Featured During October and November LOS ANGELES -- It's time to fall into Bordeaux. Inspired by the wine harvest, participating Patina Restaurant Group West Coast restaurants will offer a range of affordable Bordeaux wines by-the-glass and bottle for diners from October 1 through November 26....
WASHINGTON AFP — Ceviche is the first self-service wine bar in Washington and believed to be one of very few in the entire United States and features wines and food from Latin America or with a Spanish accent. Before Lana Shekim does the week's shopping, she likes to...
Top 10 Grape Getaways Where the Wine Is Divine NEWTON, Mass., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- TripAdvisorR, the world's largest travel community, today announced the top 10 wine destinations in the world, according to TripAdvisor editors and traveler popularity. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080902/TRIPADVISORLOGO ) (Photo:...
The Calistoga winery that triumphed in the legendary "Judgement of Paris" tasting in 1976 was sold by its founder James Barrett to Michel Reybier, owner of Chateau Cos d'Estournel in Bordeaux, for an undisclosed amount. Barrett's son Bo, Chateau Montelena wine-maker since 1982, will continue to consult for the new...
August 24th & 25th, 2008 in San Francisco, California SAN FRANCISCO -- Penche Wines, a new producer of ultra premium Bordeaux-style Napa Valley Cabernets, will uncork its wines for the first time to the trade and public at the 18th Annual Family Winemakers Tasting this Sunday August 24...
ST. HELENA, Calif. -- Ovid Napa Valley proprietors Mark Nelson and Dana Johnson have announced the appointment of Janet Pagano as Managing Partner. Pagano has been with Ovid, a producer of a super-premium Napa Valley Bordeaux blend, since its inception. "From the beginning, Janet, my wife Dana and...
SAINT HELENA, Calif. -- September 6 marks the official release of Spring Mountain Vineyard's signature wine, 2004 Elivette. A commemorative celebration, Fete Elivette, will take place at the winery's historic 1885 Villa Miravalle, a Napa Valley landmark. As a gesture to Elivette's Bordeaux-inspired heritage, fete-goers will be transported to a...
SONOMA, Calif. -- Devoted Cabernet Sauvignon consumers and fans of great music are the target of a new Cabernet-centric wine brand called B Side, introduced today by Don Sebastiani & Sons International Wine Negociants. The Cabernets offered under the B Side label will be sourced from lesser known...
BORDEAUX, France AFP — Known for its high-end wines, sumptuous chateaux and aristocrat vineyard-owners, Bordeaux has been strangely short of luxury tourist activities, but times finally are a-changing. "Not enough is done at the very top end of the tourist market," said billionaire Bordeaux wine producer Bernard Magrez...
Lovers of New World wines and cinema will have another opportunity to revel in the retelling of the story of the famous 1976 "Judgment of Paris" wine tasting that helped put California wines on the world map. Bottle Shock, starring Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman, opens Wednesday; another...
The Meritage Association, a wine industryorganization dedicated to promoting wines blended in the tradition ofBordeaux, announced today the election of a new slate of officers.Assuming the role of Chairman through April 2009 is Kim Stare Wallace, VicePresident of Dry Creek Vineyard. Also elected was Lee Nordland, EstateManager at Icon Estates,...
Wine If you think of German wine as cheap, sweet and basic, you're in excellent company. When the go-ahead German wine company Zimmermann- Graeff & Mller commissioned market researchers to find out what UK consumers thought of German wine, "cheap, sweet and basic"...
BORDEAUX, France AFP — The Bordeaux region's St Emilion wines have been stripped of their top classifications by a French court, which Tuesday ruled that "Grand Cru" labels should be taken off bottles. "Just as we are about to start putting the 2006 vintage into bottles,...
The Sauvignon Blanc is definitely the original variety. From Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Franc, the most famous and most planted red variety, Cabernet Sauvignon was born. So, we can say Souvignon Blanc is the mother of the Cabernet Sauvignon. And the Sauvignon is not only mother to this red variety,...
WRITING OBITUARIES What makes an outstanding obituary? Meg Carter speaks to the experts to find out whose tributes are still remembered It's not always the rich and powerful who have the most compelling life stories. Obituarists from around the...
Some French wine growers are rioting. Others are in the pink. Rose, once the mocked poor relation of French vineyards, has overtaken white wine in volume of sales in France for the first time. Pink wine, drunk chilled in the summer, is defying...
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