Relevant offers (Stuff)When it comes to wine tours, it's hard to top vintage bicycles and an oenophile guide to the vineyards of Martinborough. The New Zealand settler township once basked in glorious, sunny isolation, unknown to the world and ignored by the urbanites 'over the hill' in the nation's capital, Wellington.
State wine-making spreading (Traverse City Record-Eagle)Despite tough economic times in Michigan, state wine production and sales continue to grow. Michigan is now home to 65 commercial wineries, compared to 17 in 1995. Wine production in the state passed 1 million gallons for the first time in 2007, up almost 50 percent from 2004.
Punk musicians paint, exhibit at the Honan Allston Library (Allston-Brighton Tab)?Drop Ya Mic and Pick up Yer Paintbrush? at the Honan Allston Library will stay up through May 22. All of the paintings and drawings are by members of local bands.
Television - Entertainment (Scoop.co.nz)Charlie Ash perform on Sunrise to help celebrate NZ Music Month.
Television - Entertainment (Scoop.co.nz)Michael Jackson's publicist and general manager has filed a US$44 million lawsuit against the pop star claiming he has not paid her for deals she's made.
Uncork Your Inner Hedonist (Entrpreneur.com)At Newsome-Harlow Winery, it's all about wine, food, friends and fun.
Best Wine Making Techniques: Use Of Wooden Casks Or Steel Tanks For Chardonnay Influences Its Fermentative Aroma (Science Daily)After analysing different points of the process of the transformation of grape juice to wine, researchers concluded that the type of container (wooden cask or steel tank) employed notably influences the fermentative aroma of Chardonnay wine, and that oak cask-fermented wines have, in general, a greater concentration of superior alcohols and esters of medium-sized chains of fatty acids.
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