Archive for the ‘Wine Archives’ Category

Dry summer a boon for wine grape crop (Daily Press)

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

The Virginia Farm Bureau says the state’s wine grape crop is thriving thanks to a dry summer.

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COA to hold annual wine tasting fundraiser (This Week Delaware)

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

A primary service provider for Delaware County senior citizens this week will hold an annual wine tasting to help ensure the success of future facilities and operational levies.

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State Fair Offers Wine Pavilion (KELO Sioux Falls)

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Wine is on the list of South Dakota-grown products displayed at the State Fair.

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Babylon Rotary hosting endless summer wine and food event (Babylon Beacon)

Friday, August 29th, 2008

The Babylon Rotary Club is holding its 17th annual Endless Summer exclusive wine and food event, Sun., Sept. 14, 2 p.m. at the Long Island Yacht Club, Little East Neck Road South, Babylon. The donation is $75 per person in advance and $90 at the door and includes a complimentary wine glass and tray. Proceeds will go to charity.

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Wine combinations add flavor, punch (Park Record)

Friday, August 29th, 2008

The American wine consumer has become a lover of what sommeliers and growers call, oxymoronically, single variety.

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Wine: Finest hour (Independent)

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Whether you love it for convenience and value, or hate it for decimating a nation of shopkeepers, you can’t ignore Tesco. For anyone who can recall Green Shield stamps and “pile it high sell it cheap”mentality of the Jack Cohen era, it seems improbable that Tesco can have quite so dramatically transcended its humble origins to become not only the nation’s leading grocer, but its foremost wine …

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Fine wine meets backyard barbecue (The Star-Ledger)

Friday, August 29th, 2008

We never dreamed that our first taste of a 1961 Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion, a rare wine with a four-figure price tag, would occur with our first taste of a Spicy Redneck from Crif Dogs in New York. The hot dog was wrapped in bacon, deep-fried and topped with chili, coleslaw and jalapeno peppers.

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Wine bar hosting fundraiser for woman with cancer (Redlands Daily Facts)

Friday, August 29th, 2008

REDLANDS - Time in a Bottle wine bar will host a fundraiser Thursday, Sept. 11, for a Redlands High School graduate who is fighting cancer.

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Boom attracts wine importers, Govt policies drive them away (The Hindu)

Friday, August 29th, 2008

The wine industry, according to some estimates, is growing at about 30 per cent, which makes India one of the fastest growing markets in the region.

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NZ Wine Co profit up 41pc (The New Zealand Herald)

Friday, August 29th, 2008

The New Zealand Wine Company reported a $1.35 million profit before asset adjustments in the year to June 30, up 41 per cent on the same period last year.

Original post by Stephen Robinson