Help us Free The Grapes!
A wine war is pitting consumers - who want the option to purchase wines directly from wineries and retailers - against the wine wholesaler cartel, who are threatening consumers and winemakers with jail time if they bypass the middlemen.
Free the Grapes! is a national, grassroots coalition of consumers, wineries and retailers [...]
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I ran acrossed an article from the New York Times talking about an area in Canada that they considered a Napa of the North. What I have to chuckle at are what people interpretations of Napa is.
Down at Disneyland, Mondavi placed a Winery that actually does feel like something out of Napa… except there [...]
I’d ignore this wine normally but now I’m curious about how it is. Why is this? Because it shares a name with one of the most popular and easiest to use Linux Distributions, Ubuntu.
But what is Ubuntu wine you ask?
The word “Ubuntu” means to share and the four single varietal wines that comprise [...]
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Wine-tasting robot to spot fraudulent bottles
A robotic wine taster, capable of distinguishing between 30 different varieties or blends of grape, has been developed by engineers in Japan.
The idea is to automate wine analysis so that retailers and customs officials can easily check that a wine is indeed what its label declares.
The wine-bot was developed by [...]
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Semper Fi Sauvignon
From the halls of Montezuma to Inchon to Fallujah, the United States Marine Corps have proved themselves to be the meanest, toughest, most resourceful warriors on the planet.
Now, a single test remains for this hallowed assemblage of fighters:
Make a rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon.
Fortunately, the former Marines at Firestone Vineyards are meeting the challenge, [...]
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Below post was taken from todays woot of the day. If you haven’t caught this before, woot sells one item a daty until sold out or a new item is sold for the next day. They usually have great prices and they always have good writers who will make the good parts shine [...]
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I ran acrossed this list originally at Sally’s Place and thought she had done a great job, but wanted to expand a little. So here is a great list if you are debating coming to Napa Valley to visit.
ENJOY THE “REST” OF NAPA - THERE IS [...]
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It takes about five hours to make your way through the 25-course Tour menu at Alinea. Item 11 arrives at hour three, stuck on the end of a foot-long wire. Your black-clad, impeccably polite server suddenly turns stern. “This is applewood,” he says. “Please eat it without using your hands.” The golf ball-sized morsel looms [...]
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EPICUREAN EXPLORATIONS — Goosecross Cellars and Napa Valley Grille introduce Epicurean Explorations, an interactive, multi-course food and wine pairing designed to explore old theories on wine pairing and test them on today’s palate. April 20 at Napa Valley Grille. $125 per person, all-inclusive. Info, (800) 276-9210 or visit www.goosecross.com.
OK, I have lived in Napa most [...]
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I’m loving this years birthday. I’m one of those guys who likes cooking…. but I’m also one who likes good cooking, generally at retaurants. So the last few days have been great.
Friday Night I had a great Milet Minon Dinner at OD’s in Downtown Truckee. The Filet was wrapped in Applewood Bacon, [...]
