2007


General24 Dec 2007 04:30 pm

Sell More
Birmingham Business Journal - Woodworking, gardening, cooking, baking and even wine making are all fun alternatives. Get up early to get a jump on your day. Getting to work gives you extra quiet time, which will allow you to be more productive. A great example in sales is making

SCC approves plans for viticulture center
Mount Airy News - McCarther said she liked the way the design reflected elements of the landscape, the wine-making process and actual things we do here at the college that are included in the structure of the building. Trustees passed a tentative approval for the

Take A Vacation With Education
CBS News - And 34 percent plan to take a wine-making or wine-tasting class. The trips are favored by women over men (57 percent to 43 percent) and the majority of participants said they want an educational vacation because it’s a new experience. An Early Show

General23 Dec 2007 04:30 pm

Raising the bar: Essentials for serving drinks at home
Coloradoan - The red wine goblet: “The red wine glass has a larger bowl so the vapors can be trapped,” explains Dezelan. “And you can put white wine in a red wine glass, but not vice versa.” 5. The pilsner: This tall, slender beer vessel is preferred to pint glasses

Follow these tips and avoid holiday food temptations
Houston Chronicle - At big family meals, making a point of talking to everyone in the room will help keep you from the snack table. Limit 2: Your wine glass does have a bottom. Wine and beer have about 150 calories in a serving. Limit yourself to two drinks per party

Treasures that scream Inland Empire
Riverside Press Enterprise - If wine’s too much, consider some other souvenir, such as a wine glass. Prices vary by winery, so head to temeculawines.org and get clicking. Casino souvenirs If your significant other likes casinos

Vegetarian food thrives in San Francisco
Orange County Register - I Am Rich ($7) is a big wine glass filled with vermilion beet juice floated on a base of orange, carrot and lemon to magnificent and tangy effect. It’s a bewildering cuisine, developing familiar ingredients into wholly novel dishes. The results can

Wine Show celebrates its 25th anniversary
Lodi News-Sentinel - Admission to the first Wine Show was free, but patrons were charged $3.00 for a wine glass and three tastes. Tickets for additional tastes were sold for $.50 each. Twenty five wineries and several food booths participated in the Show, and

Grand accents on a slim budget
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - If you’re entertaining , consider using solid-color plates, tablecloths and napkins that can make the transition to everyday use. Accent with inexpensive seasonal accessories. Tie a colorful ribbon and a jingle bell onto each wine glass, or tie each

General22 Dec 2007 05:30 pm

The tipping point
Tulsa World - She’s also been gifted items like bottles of wine, gift cards and chocolates. “Chocolates always make a woman happy,” she said. On a side note, one of Brewer’s stylists once received a complete Christmas dinner, right down to a frozen turkey, when

Make your host gift the life of the party
AZCentral.com - They’re the ones you have fun picking out a wine gift for, and the ones who appreciate what you’ve picked. Here are four different approaches, guaranteed to suit all occasions. Fun and young Sofia by Francis Ford Coppola Sparkling Wine, California

Expert on corporate gift giving emphasizes quality, personal touch
Providence Journal - Stay away from gifts that are political, sexual or religious in nature, she advises. And don t give gifts as a prank. I also stay away from barware and alcohol, she adds. If a company gives a wine gift, and there s a nondrinker

Holiday Wine Tasting At Warner Theatre
HULIQ.com - As an added feature, patrons will also have an opportunity to purchase special novelty bracelets and receive a chance to win an exclusive Romantic Rendezvous package valued at more than $500 and various Wine Gift Baskets featuring collections of fine

Loews Hotels at Universal Orlando ‘Wine Line’ Comes to the Aid of Busy
Forbes - Knowledgeable, warm and yes, unpretentious wine experts will help guide you through your wine pairing or wine gift giving dilemmas, no matter your budget. “For years, our loyal guests from across the country and local residents in the Orlando area

A bottle of wine can be a welcome gift
Post-Tribune - What’s the occasion for the wine gift? If you’re bringing wine to serve at a dinner you’ve been invited to, phone your hosts first to ask what they’re preparing and try to match the wine to complement the entr e, appetizer or dessert. The host may

Wine’s Holiday Gift Guide
San Francisco Gate - Even if you don’t believe in building a dusty old cellar, a good wine gift should be something that’s held for a special moment. With that in mind, we’ve selected wines that have a life span, so that your gift is remembered later - sometimes much

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Special section: Holiday gift guide
Orange County Register - For the foodie : Here are some homemade gift ideas for the extra-special people on your list. More of a wine connoisseur? Check out our wine gift guide.

General13 Dec 2007 01:30 am

Capricorn Dating Style
WLOX - Go for a fancy meal, go wine tasting or to a wine bar, go to a museum, go to the theater or opera, go ballroom dancing, go to a swank bar with a view, spend a night in a 5 star hotel, play tennis or golf together at a country club, take a yacht or

A treat for wine lovers
Times of India - It was. Smart suits and silk sarees, fine wine and food marked this wine-tasting evening by the city s wine club. Guests included the New Zealand High Commissioner Graeme Waters and Trade Commissioner Paul Vaughan, and several interesting folk from

An Elegant Affair
Leesville Daily Leader - The Museum of West Louisiana hosted patrons and supporters on the evening of Friday, Dec. 7, with their annual An Elegant Affair wine tasting and open house. Entertainment was provided by the United Sons of God and C.J. Michaels; One Man Band

Cuisine Scene: Tour before you quaff
Marin Independent Journal - Corinne Van Houten loves touring the Wine Country so much she decided to turn her passion into a business. The 54-year-old Terra Linda resident has just released a new CD, “Wine Tasting in the Carneros Region of Sonoma and Napa Valley,” retailing for

New, Multi-Functional Restaurant Kicks Off in Downtown Long Beach
PR.com - The Primes wine room has scheduled wine tasting events, while the bar & lounge features an extensive cocktail menu, specialty appetizers, and a great beer list offering some unique selections that are hard to find anywhere else. Primes Executive

Wine sampling event Dec. 11
TriVallyCentral - Those who attended last year can attest to what an educational and entertaining evening this should be. Attendees must be 21 years of age or older. Wine tasting will be Tuesday, Dec. 11 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Marco Wine Sellers for $15/participant

General08 Dec 2007 01:30 pm

Vintage Wine Trust Broadens Property Portfolio With Acquisition of
Yahoo Finance - VWT will develop a wine storage and transfer facility consisting of a storage warehouse with capacity to store 2.5 million gallons of bulk wine as well as a tanker truck sanitation facility. The projected cost of development is $6.6 million resulting

The Secret Cellar
Seattle Times - Scott Lipsky combined ideas from three designers to configure his wine storage, then ordered All Heart Redwood racks from Apex Wine Cellars in Woodinville. Much of the space is for single bottles, but he also has diamond bins and some wood case

Calif. entrepreneur charged in fire that destroyed 6 million vintage
KOMO-TV - Anderson owned a wine storage business named Sausalito Cellars and used Wines Central to store some of his wines. He removed most of them after business managers asked him to do so several months before the fire, according to his former attorney

Interior decorator turns furniture designer
Bridgeton News - The maple table is supported by a chunky tripod that echoes the X-shape of a wine-storage rack. Beasley plans to install the set in the office of his wife and business partner, Stephanie Henley. What Beasley lacks in formal furniture-design training

General29 Nov 2007 07:30 am

Take A Vacation With Education
CBS News - And 34 percent plan to take a wine-making or wine-tasting class. The trips are favored by women over men (57 percent to 43 percent) and the majority of participants said they want an educational vacation because it’s a new experience. An Early Show

Inside The Front Lines Of Battling A Wildfire
KSDK - Still, Natalie Bazar, 19, a wine-making student at California Polytechnic University, called it “empowering. . You’re doing the same job as these big, strong men.” Santiago Fire, Orange Firefighters such as Frank Mehay of Corona de Tucson, worked to

Tracy machinist trades tools for bottled passion
Record - The machinist bought land in 1997 and after six unprofitable years of growing walnuts, Rios, his brother Juan Rios and father Canfilo Rios began growing grapes and experimenting with wine-making techniques. He took extension classes at UC Davis. Rios

Chic apparel to accompany cycle’s return
Seattle Times - Waters Winery in Walla Walla reopens next month in a new, $2 million wine-making facility with its own tasting room. Until now, owner Jason Huntley operated the two-year-old winery from shared space at Saviah Cellars and had a tasting room in downtown

Crushpad’s fusebox Brings Wine Blending Out of the Winery and Into the
Market Wire - SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire - November 28, 2007) - Crushpad, the urban winery that is democratizing wine making, today announced the launch of fusebox, the wine blending kit that brings a professional-level wine making experience to the home

He’s Groton’s King Of Grape
Lowell Sun - Land, wine making (process), fermentation, purification of wine — it’s overwhelming and makes wine

General26 Nov 2007 11:30 am

HELL’S KITCHEN HEATS UP
New York Post - Owned by Chef Andy D’Amico (of Nice Matin and Marseille) and partner Robert Guarino, Nizza is decorated in blond wood with cubby-hole wine storage behind its white marble bar, which serves 30 wines by the glass. If things continue to develop, Heaven

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These guys don’t go over big
Boston Globe - We first meet him when he is having sex with his ex-wife, Lisbeth (Paige Turco), in the club s wine storage room. Duncan owns a hugely successful cosmetics company, but that doesn t mean he knows women, which becomes obvious in one of tonight s

The height of luxury
Arlington Heights Daily Herald - And don’t forget the bells and whistles, like a wine-storage unit, warming drawers, a pot faucet and a built-in espresso machine. Palatial bathrooms Ceramic tile is so ’90s. Only granite or stone bathrooms will do for today’s upscale condo dwellers

Passion for product
Lodi News-Sentinel - He noted that Harwood had built his own wine storage shed within months of joining the club, something other members had not done for years. Harwood may be new to winemaking and the business world. But he’s done his homework. He’s researched “probably

General25 Nov 2007 01:30 pm

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Vann’s To Open Sub-Zero, Wolf Appliances Store
Twice - Other recent introductions include the Sub-Zero Pro 48 professional-style residential refrigerator; an induction cooktop from Wolf; and a 15-inch wine storage unit, Sub-Zero’s smallest. John Thelan, president of Roth Distributing, the exclusive Sub

Where experts put their fine wine down
Financial Times - The hugely successful 2005 vintage, bought heavily by collectors and, especially, investors, is putting space pressure on the world s relatively few specialist wine storage companies. Corsham s main UK rival, London City Bond, has just stepped up

The Secret Cellar
Seattle Times - Scott Lipsky combined ideas from three designers to configure his wine storage, then ordered All Heart Redwood racks from Apex Wine Cellars in Woodinville. Much of the space is for single bottles, but he also has diamond bins and some wood case

V WINE: Vineyard investment group plans Napa warehouse
North Bay Business Journal - Vintage Wine Trust signed a lease through December 2017, plus 15 years of potential renewals, with bulk-wine hauler Butch Cameron Trucking’s Napa operation, Cameron Wine Storage. The trust has invested $170 million in 6,000 acres of vines and two

Wine Storage
BusinessWeek - March 3 - A recent forecast by a wine trade group indicates that Americans are expected to surpass the French in wine consumption over the next three years. Many of those consumers are becoming collectors. We explore ways that budding collectors can

General24 Nov 2007 05:30 pm

Fisher defense anticipates a test
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - (November 24, 2007) Like a fine wine, the St. John Fisher football team’s defense seems to get better with time. The Cardinals are allowing opponents 12.3 points per game, which is sixth-best in Division III. But during their current six-game

Don’t forget votes to raise our taxes
Baltimore Sun - the Catholic catechism, as many of us have been fortunate to do, they would understand that Father Martin’s actions were inconsistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church regarding his role as a priest, the transubstantiation of bread and wine

In Other Words
New York Daily News - Pierre, do you hear ze stupid Americons begging ze Fed - “Oh, please, cut ze rate or I cannot even afford ze Cheez Whiz or zat new wine from Staten Island, Chateau de Fresh Kills.” The story: NYPD narc James Calderon is busted as part of a drug gang

WINEHOUSE’S MOTHER-IN-LAW BLAMES FAME FOR PROBLEMS
PR Inside - AMY WINEHOUSE’s mother-in-law has blamed the celebrity lifestyle for the public downfall of her son BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL. Georgette Civil, 42, accuses the music industry of glamorising drug use and believes it has encouraged her 25-year-old son and

These days, some home sellers will try just about anything
AZCentral.com - The free flat-screen TV is no longer impressing anyone; the wine-and-cheese open house is a bore. So, frenzied sellers are concocting wacky, wily stunts to show off their homes and eke out a little attention. “It is ugly out there right now,” says

TakeTwo Keri Russell on red wine and manners
Washington Post - Last good book read : “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” by Alexandra Fuller. Comfort food: “Since I was a kid — and still — I’ve loved pasta with tons of butter and salt and pepper and nothing else. I love it.” Won’t leave home without: The

General22 Nov 2007 09:30 pm

Shoppes of Holiday House feature handmade crafts, homemade food
Dispatch - Sid and Miranda Proctor, owners of Weathervane Winery in north Davidson, have created special cranberry-flavored red wine. Each bottle costs $12. The label, featuring a North Carolina red cardinal next to a holiday-decorated birdhouse, was painted by

TakeTwo Keri Russell on red wine and manners
Washington Post - Last good book read : “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” by Alexandra Fuller. Comfort food: “Since I was a kid — and still — I’ve loved pasta with tons of butter and salt and pepper and nothing else. I love it.” Won’t leave home without: The

Toasting the holidays
Everett Herald - In the anteroom of the Roman Senate after a long debate over what to do about the uprising in Brittany, Titus Cicero lifted a clay goblet above his waist. A slave poured dark red wine into his cup from a large earthen pitcher. It was 27 B.C. Other

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