Follow a grape from the vine to your wine glass (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)Here's a primer on how wine is made.
Casks from '07 will help make '09 a fine year (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)Let's all hope that 2009 will be full of joy and prosperity. To that end, here are some thoughts on wine for the new year.
Blending wines helps vintners maintain quality (The Scranton Times-Tribune)Just about anyone making red wine anywhere looks to Bordeaux for inspiration.
Purple Possum Winery specializes in mead wine (Greater Houston Weekly)This week in our ?travels? to wineries around the greater Houston area, we will visit Purple Possum Winery near Navasota.
No sour grapes in this wine group (Post-Tribune)Mike Mantai of Kouts enjoys everything about wine -- the varieties, where it comes from, how it's made.
Chef's Top Choice: Working with wine (The Evening Sun)Cathy Criste-Barnes started working part-time in 2006 at the Adams County Winery in Orrtanna. Every new employee at the winery learns the art of winemaking, Criste-Barnes said.
Sticky situation - sweet-wine makers face shrinking market (San Francisco Chronicle)For many keen wine drinkers, the depths of winter is the time when pulling out all the stops seems not self-indulgent, but a necessary ritual. Social lives can be a whirl of entertaining, and the season itself seems enough justification to pop and pull corks...
Douglas Dispatch (The Daily Dispatch)BISBEE ? Billboards will not be marring the scenic views along Highway 90 in Whetstone ? at least for now.
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