Source: Salem Statesman-Journal
Wineries have become places to sample food, listen to music, socialize with friends and host weddings. Crowds flocking to local wineries during Memorial Day weekend show how well tourism pairs with selling wine. ÂThe setting ...
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Source: Vinography
In some ways the stories aren't all that different. A wealthy businessman falls in love with wine at some point, starts visiting Napa, and eventually dreams of owning a vineyard, to make a small amount of wine, just ...
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Source: The Wine Doctor
Following on from last week's wine fairs in London, the RAW Wine Fair and the Real Wine Fair, surely it's only natural (groan....sorry) that my thoughts and my drinking this weekend should turn to one such wine. And ...
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Source: Steve Heimoff
I generally agree with your parameters. What is interesting, however, is that all of them require exposure to the larger world. There needs to be a critical mass of people…retailers, distributors, restaurateurs, wine writers, talk ...
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Source: The Huffington Post
If there is one investment that has more to do with the heart than the head, it’s vineyards. It is also one that lends itself to jokes whose punch lines are always about losing money. But that risk has never deterred wealthy people. Nor ...
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Source: The Scotsman
The internet is changing the way we work, think and play. In the wine world, there is a revolution taking place, breaking down traditional barriers in this age-old industry and offering consumers a sense of empowerment and involvement. That ...
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Our annual panel of the pink was a blitz this year: nearly 100 wines from the 2011 vintage, with a full 30 making my final rundown. While rosé can occasionally shine with age - Spain's Lopez de Heredia frequently makes t ...
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Craig Lee / The Chronicle 2008 The amount of diversity among rosé wines has never been better. Here's dry rosé's trajectory in the past few years: from understudy ("really, drink it any time of year") to brief s ...
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Source: Vinography
It's hard to fathom what it must be like to have the world change beneath your feet overnight. When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, I was a relatively clueless high schooler for whom the news was elating, but only in a purely theoretical sense. For ...
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