Temecula Valley Wine Country winery goes back to California's wine-making roots with Mission grapes (The Press-Enterprise)It's history you can toast. Briar Rose Winery in Temecula Valley Wine Country is making wine from a little-used but historic type of grape.
On genetic diversity, globalisation and great grape pips (South African Wine News)Genetic diversity and the preservation of indigenous grape varieties make an important contribution to the rich tapestry of wine culture, enriching viticulture and different styles of wine making while providing an important counterpoint to the globalisation of uniform wine brands.
Bonarrigos pioneered Texas wine industry (Greater Houston Weekly)This week we look at Messina Hof Winery in Bryan, not far from Texas A&M University.
Wineries flourish below Mason-Dixon line (The Wilmington Star-News)The Georgia winery Persimmon Creek Vineyards is part of a rapidly expanding winery industry across the South, where lands once given over to tobacco now produce a more tourist-friendly crop.
Zapped plonk more drinkable (The Courier Mail)SCIENTISTS have found a way to quickly "age" wine, making even the cheapest plonk pleasantly drinkable. Just give it a nice jolt of electricity.
Business caters to chocolate, wine lovers (The Oregonian)Dana Packard's Honest Chocolates offers tasty fruit-wine-chocolate morsels online and in her McMinnville and Newberg stores Dan Sanderson/Special to The OregonianDana Packard experimented with chocolate recipes for fun, then sold online before opening Honest Chocolates shops in McMinnville and Newberg...
Folk festival with a difference (Kuensel)18 December, 2008 - Three days of traditional Bhutanese food cooked by local villagers, traditional spear and boomerang throwing, ?human bull? fights, a traditional hike and more were the highlights of the first folk festival, described by many as a ?festival with a difference.?
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