A Martinborough pinot noir has captured the top prize at the country’s biggest ever wine competition at the weekend.
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WINE lovers face paying more for a bottle after Australian vineyards were hit by drought. Experts down under believe their harvest could be less than half its usual size.
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FRANKLIN COUNTY - As a comfortable breeze blew throughout the Rend Lake area, a gathering of artists, musicians, and wine connoisseurs marked the seventh year and final day of the Southern Illinois Wine and Art Festival.
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Sue Stevens had a different excuse this year to find herself in Montebello Park with a glass of wine on the final day of the Niagara Wine Festival. In years past, the St. Catharines resident has made a point of cheering friend Bo Fusek to the finish of the Off-Road Squeezer mountain bike race.
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Joe Allegrini of Derry Twp., carrying on a family tradition that goes back eight decades, on Sunday celebrated the arrival of autumn by making red wine.
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It’s a week of birthdays for multiple members of Team Bottlenotes, so I couldn’t help but pause to reflect upon the significance of birthdays as a whole (I’m having my quarter life crisis four years late, experiencing great angst about leaving “28,” so please indulge my modern neurosis), and on Birthdays and Bubbly.
I attended the James Beard Foundation’s Taste America event in San Francisco on Friday night and was seriously disappointed by the sheer dearth of cuisine, in addition to the hidden nature of the star women chefs that we came to “see.”
I was, however, wild about the Domaine Carneros by Taittinger Brut Rose that was poured. It was the color of pink rose petals, with tiny beads for bubbles that danced in one’s mouth balletically. As my friends toasted my upcoming non-milestone birthday, and I paused to consider:
Why bubbly? What makes it so festive and fun? My hypotheses are threefold:
Trite? Perhaps. And like our guest at the Emmy’s a few weeks ago, I’m an even bigger fan of Prosecco than Champagne these days. Unless it’s a Brut Rosé. But whether you’re a Champagne aficionado or solely the obligatory Bubbly bouvenderie, it’s the perfect beverage- and gift- for a birthday, anniversary, or the holidays.
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It’s a week of birthdays for multiple members of Team Bottlenotes, so I couldn’t help but pause to reflect upon the significance of birthdays as a whole (I’m having my quarter life crisis four years late, experiencing great angst about leaving “28,” so please indulge my modern neurosis), and on Birthdays and Bubbly.
I attended the James Beard Foundation’s Taste America event in San Francisco on Friday night and was seriously disappointed by the sheer dearth of cuisine, in addition to the hidden nature of the star women chefs that we came to “see.”
I was, however, wild about the Domaine Carneros by Taittinger Brut Rose that was poured. It was the color of pink rose petals, with tiny beads for bubbles that danced in one’s mouth balletically. As my friends toasted my upcoming non-milestone birthday, and I paused to consider:
Why bubbly? What makes it so festive and fun? My hypotheses are threefold:
Trite? Perhaps. And like our guest at the Emmy’s a few weeks ago, I’m an even bigger fan of Prosecco than Champagne these days. Unless it’s a Brut Rosé. But whether you’re a Champagne aficionado or solely the obligatory Bubbly bouvenderie, it’s the perfect beverage- and gift- for a birthday, anniversary, or the holidays.
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Sunday was the 34th annual Apple Cider Century bike tour. It is a tour of the orchards, forest and wine country in and around Three Oaks, Michigan.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - American wine lovers are worried.
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The Framingham wine brand, winery and its Marlborough vineyards will be sold to another overseas owner, Sogrape, following Overseas Investment Office approval.
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