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GLOSSIES

 Meet Vintners of Sideways Fame 

Hitching Post II owner makes famed wines with ex-fisherman colleague

Sep 18, 08 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you’ve seen the movie Sideways, you likely remember the Hitching Post II: the Santa Barbara County restaurant where Paul Giamatti nervously meets his future love. But even the most dedicated oenophile may not know that Hitching Post owner Frank Ostini and colleague Gray Hartley have been making wine... More »

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wine • restaurant • wineries • pinot noir • restaurateurs • Sideways • merlot • Santa Barbara County • Hitching Post II

WINE REVIEW

 Say Ciao to Chianti, 
 Sip This Red Instead 


Sep 17, 08 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's time to discover the pleasures of aglianico wines, writes Eric Asimov in the New York Times. While many drinkers familiarly sip Chianti and Barolo, aglianico consumption has been largely confined to the diffuse Southern Italian regions where the grape is grown. And while some of the leading aglianicos are... More »

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Italy • wine • red wine

 In Vino, Cash: 
 Amazon to Sell Wine 

Firms has partnered with nonprofit association of vintners

Sep 11, 08 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Online shopping got a little more intoxicating today as Amazon announced it will start selling wine in the US starting in October, Reuters reports. The retailer —looking for a chunk of the $30 billion-plus US wine market —has partnered with Napa Valley Vintners, which will supply vino from... More »

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alcohol • wine • Napa Valley • wineries • wine industry • Amazon.com • Amazon

GLOSSIES

 The State of US Wine,
 in 50 Bottles

Can good wine be made anywhere?

Aug 29, 08 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wine snobs contend that "terroir"—soil, climate, and topography—restrict great wines to certain regions. But are they right? All 50 US states make wine, so Joel Stein sampled a bottle from each to test the claim in Time. He discovered "quite good" varietals from surprising states... More »

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Kentucky • wine • Delaware • grapes • USA

 Wine Drinkers Pick the Pink

Once-tacky rosé shows staying power

Aug 27, 08 3:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rosé wine has gone from tacky to trendy, with easy-to-swallow prices helping sales bubble up by nearly a third in the past year, compared to just a 5.1% boost for all wines. Both US and European consumers are hooked—in France, rosés are selling faster than whites, reports... More »

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France • wine • wine industry • rosé wine

 Midwest Adding Grapes 
 to Its Grain 

Profit-hungry farmers, vote-hungry politicians nurture unlikely wine industry

Aug 22, 08 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - As farmers seek higher profits and politicians angle for healthier rural economies, vineyards are cropping up across the Midwest, the Economist reports. Michigan and Ohio now have over 100 wineries each, with vintage monikers handily swiped from French-named Midwestern locales like “Marquette” and “Frontenac”—or, less convincingly,... More »

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agriculture • Midwest • wine • wine industry

Critic's Hoax Makes Spectator Turn Red

Wine magazine
honors 'excellence' of imaginary restaurant

Aug 22, 08 2:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wine Spectator bestowed one of its awards of excellence on the Milan restaurant Osteria L'Intrepido. Problem being, the restaurant doesn't exist. A mischievous wine critic made it up, along with its wine list—which featured wines panned by the magazine—then forked over the $250 application fee, the Los ... More »

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advertising • wine • magazine • restaurant • hoax

FOOD & WINE

Subtle Cabernets
Recall Napa's Heyday

Old-school wineries show 'balance and restraint'

Aug 20, 08 6:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Forget "jammy fruit bombs" that crush the palate—subtle cabernets are making a comeback in Napa Valley. "You don’t hear much about these sorts of wines today," writes Eric Asimov in the New York Times. While critics swoon over rich, oaky cabernets, a few wineries... More »

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wine • dining • Napa Valley • cabernet sauvignon • vineyard

(Newser) - France’s wine business is stuck in the doldrums, as American wines (and their aggressive marketing campaigns) explode onto the scene. But one Napa Valley girl is working to change that, by introducing stodgy French vintners to the modern concept of marketing. “A lot of what I do is... More »

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France • marketing • wine • Napa Valley • wine industry

 How to Spot Overpriced Wines 

Experts explain pricing and weigh in with ways to save

Aug 16, 08 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Why does a bottle of wine cost $100 at one restaurant and three times that at the bistro down the block? The Wall Street Journal asked wine experts to decipher vino pricing and offer tips for finding the best deals. The results: Expensive wines often mean better value, as... More »

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Wall Street Journal • wine • restaurant • deal • price • dining

 Wash. Vineyards
 Flush With Pot Crop

110K marijuana plants already confiscated this year

Aug 10, 08 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Washington state is cracking down on drug dealers' latest innovation: Using vineyards to secretly grow marijuana crops, the AP reports. Police have made 22 arrests this year and confiscated 110,000 pot plants from the Yakima Valley alone, worth more than $100 million. But tracking dealers isn't easy: Some are... More »

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wine • Washington • marijuana • Drug Enforcement Administration • drug trade • wine industry • vineyard • Yakima Valley

 Philosophical Vintner 
 Rethinks Wine 

The bizarre techniques behind the Scholium Project

Aug 8, 08 1:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Abe Schoener is reinvigorating California wines with a decidely unorthodox, almost experimental, approach, writes Jon Bonne in the San Francisco Chronicle. Schoener, who lacks formal training, eschews the traditional do's and don’ts of the craft with his Scholium Project winery. His wines "are bizarre, ingenious and polarizing—quite... More »

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California • wine • plants • biology • grapes • wineries • organic wine • experimental wine

FOOD & WINE

 Greek Whites
 'Smack of Sunshine'

Unpretentious pleasures for aficianados who branch out

Aug 6, 08 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - In honor of the Olympics, Eric Asimov set out to rediscover Greece's white wines for the New York Times. He found whites just subtly different from the made-to-be-drunk young bottles of Italy and Spain, fermented from "unfamiliar, indigenous grapes grown nowhere else." The moschofilero varietal dominated the... More »

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New York Times • wine • Greece • critic • reviews • dining

 French Winemakers
 Turn to Terror

Wine growers battling cheap imports launch commando attacks

Aug 2, 08 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tough times have turned some wine-growers in southwestern France to "wine terrorism," Time reports. Guerrilla grape-growers have bombed supermarkets and government buildings, hijacked trucks carrying foreign wine, and drained tanks. The growers want the French government to protect them from the cheap imports they say are threatening their... More »

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terrorism • France • wine • protests • wineries • wine industry

 Surprise: Bordeaux
 Whites Are a Delight

The region is famed for its reds, but don't overlook its whites

Jul 30, 08 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - It almost sounds contradictory: exquisite white wine hails from Bordeaux, the unofficial home of red. But the whites produced in Pessac-Léognan—the heart of the Bordeaux region in France—include "some of the most thrilling, underappreciated white wines in the world,” Eric Asimov raves in the New ... More »

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France • wine • Bordeaux

 Prosecco Targets
 Champagne Crown 

Italian bubbly makers hope to edge out pricey champagne

Jul 22, 08 8:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sales of Italy's answer to champagne have been bubbling up for years, Reuters writes, but prosecco producers plan to boost output to 250 million bottles next year, with an eye on someday overtaking champagne as the world's favorite sparkling wine. The bubbly is cheaper to make than its French rival,... More »

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Italy • wine • champagne • wineries • sparkling wine • wine industry

 Rome Cracks Down on Revelers 

New ordinance forbids eating, drinking,  noise

Jul 11, 08 5:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rome's residents and visitors had best behave themselves for the next 4 months: An experimental ordinance bans eating and drinking in the streets of the Eternal City, and cracks down on hooligans who want to "shout, sing or be noisy," Reuters reports. The newly elected mayor enacted the... More »

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food • law • Italy • wine • Rome • singing • drinks

glossies

 In Vino,
 Room for
 Interpretation 

Despite study's hints, wine tasting remains a personal pursuit

Jun 17, 08 11:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - That peppery flavor of Syrah? It comes from the same chemical that gives pepper its aroma, a recent study says. So sommeliers aren't making this stuff up: Wine bouquets actually have an empirical basis. But the compounds are tough to pin down because they change when mixed, and 20% of... More »

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wine • chemical • taste • Food & Wine

Opinion

Wine Reviews: Taste the Pretension

Dry notes make
snobs too boring
to mock—almost

Jun 13, 08 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - When wine lovers say they taste notes of cherries or hints of tobacco, “usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass,” Joel Stein writes in the LA Times . Wine dialogue has devolved into a meaningless string of obscure scents, Stein says. It’s boring—... More »

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wine • reviews • taste • wine industry

'07 Not Looking Like Good Year for Bordeaux

Weak quality, futures sales have French winemakers worried

Jun 11, 08 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - French winemakers are increasingly worried about fizzling sales of futures from the 2007 Bordeaux harvest, AFP reports. Investors and drinkers are skipping the vintage because they expect little increase in price by the time it's ready to drink in 2009; one merchant says reluctance to trim prices shows "avarice... More »

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wine • Bordeaux • vintage • primeurs

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