| Wine: Sample and learn about French wines | | Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:19:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ronald Holden, trenchant observer of the food and wine scene from Belltown and beyond, steps out twice from his online home at cornichon.org this month to deliver lectures on his recent travels through France. Holden, whose hats include serving as director of wine tours for The International Vineyard, will present "A Walk Through the Vineyards of Burgundy" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the Vinado Retail Warehouse, 14 S. Idaho St. Wines will be served with complementing cheeses, and bottles discussed that evening will be offered at a discount. Expect a talk that will include how the wines "relate to everyday as well as special-occasion drinking." Two weeks later, on Jan. 25, Holden returns to discuss wines from the southwest of France, the likes of Languedoc, Pyrenees and Bordeaux. Admission is free for both events, but R.S.V.P.... | |
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| | | February Hour Detroit: 2007 Restaurant of the Year - Wines Around the World - Top 10 Romantic Restaurants to Propose | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:24:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | The February issue of Hour Detroit celebrates metro Detroit's epicurean culture as it names its 2007 Restaurant of the Year, delves into the sophisticated world of wine, and picks the top 10 restaurants for popping the question. Plus, the issue features bold bridal jewelry and inside fashion scoop. While in strong economic times, many new restaurants thrive on offering unique dishes or conceptual settings; the past year has been tough on metro Detroit restaurants. Hour Detroit chief restaurant critic Christopher Cook faced a challenging task in naming Hour Detroit's 2007 Restaurant of the Year. Cook chose a restaurant that is defined by quality and consistency. Hour Detroit proudly names The Lark its 2007 Restaurant of the Year. The Lark earned the distinguished title by consistently delivering top-notch food, an expansive wine list, and an unfailing attention to detail.... | |
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| | | A Virginia Doctor's Novel Nouveau | | Posted Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:13:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | When the first air-freighted bottles of 2006 Beaujolais nouveau arrived from France last week, Scott Twentyman of Falls Church wasn't at his local wine shop to greet them. An avid home winemaker, Twentyman will be toasting the harvest with his own 2006 "nouveau," made from grapes he picked, crushed and fermented himself. Twentyman plans to uncork his first-ever nouveau on Thanksgiving day at his family's farm in the Northern Neck region of Virginia. "A nouveau is the perfect Thanksgiving wine," said Twentyman, 50, a psychoanalyst who makes wine in the basement, the back yard and occasionally the living room of his three-bedroom home a few hundred yards from busy Route 7. "It's a harvest wine, and Thanksgiving celebrates the bounty of the harvest." .... | |
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| | | Footballers' wines | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:45:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | In the same way that you can only play a football match if there are two teams, we believe the best way of learning about wine is to drink two wines alongside each other. We're not advocating drinking in anything but moderation; it's just that the easiest way to learn about how wines are different and why is by tasting them at the same time. Bolton aren't the best team in the Premiership any more than the £10 wines here are the best French Sauvignon Blancs. Conversely, Sheffield Utd (arguably) aren't the worst team in the Premiership, just as their wines aren't the worst on the market. So, what is the difference between the wines for a tenner and the ones that come in at less than half the price? After all, both are made from the same grape, Sauvignon Blanc, and both come from the Loire Valley in central France.... | |
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| | | Company announces most expensive champagne | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:50:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | PARIS, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- French wines and spirits group Pernod Ricard has announced plans to sell the most expensive champagne in the world. Pernod chairman Patrick Ricard said one bottle of the costly spirit, Perrier Jouet's Belle Epoque, will retail for $1,277, The Independent of Britain reported Wednesday. "We won't do many cases and won't be offering it here," Ricard said at the company's annual meeting. Pernod Ricard, which manufactures Beefeater gin, Malibu and Jacob's Creek, has only been in the champagne business for about a year after buying British beverage company Allied Domecq in August 2005. A spokeswoman said the company is confident that there will be a demand for the expensive champagne. "There is a global trend to develop more and more premium and ultra-premium brands," she said.... | |
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| | | Forget Wall Street -- say 'cheese' | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:30:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK (AP) -- Day after day at work, Brian Ogden found himself sitting in front of a computer and staring at the lower right-hand corner -- the tiny clock on the screen ticking on, all too slowly. "I was bored out of my mind," said the 32-year-old database expert. So he quit his job at a Massachusetts high-tech company and moved to New York to start an unpaid internship -- to learn all about cheese. And not just any cheese. Ogden works at the Artisanal Cheese Center, a 10,000-square-foot (900-square-meter) space on Manhattan's West Side that is evidence of a growing trend in the United States. Gourmet-cheese production has expanded dramatically, with people like Ogden getting into the business. While many young men and women in the European countryside -- Spain, France, Italy, Germany, England -- are leaving their parents' centuries-old, labor-intensive craft of cheesemaking for easier jobs, Americans are eager to take up the slack.... | |
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| | | Wine from Walla Walla flows around the world | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:49:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | WALLA WALLA -- For centuries, France produced some of the worlds finest wines and gained recognition from across the world. Then California rose to prominence. Now wineries from Washington are giving both a run for the money. At one time, it could be assumed that a fine glass of wine at a fancy restaurant came from France or California. But more and more, that wine is coming from Washington. In fact, wineries in Walla Walla is doing it with help from some expertise from France. "Washington is a beautiful place to make wine," says Gilles Nicault, winemaker at Long Shadows Vintners. Framed by the broad Blue Mountains and winding waters that flow to the mighty Columbia River, the peaceful Walla Walla Valley is booming. Wines made by some of the best vintners in the world are bringing in flocks of visitors.... | |
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| | | Seller Of Rare Wines To Be Sentenced For Fraud | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:23:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES -- Ronald Wallace promised he could deliver rare, fine wines at bargain prices. But his clients were left with sour grapes. Wallace, 49, who ran his business from Basalt, Colo., a mountain town near Aspen, dabbled in wine futures, an established yet unregulated system that allows customers to purchase a specific vintage years before it's bottled and publicly released. When Wallace's operation collapsed in early 2003, hundreds of clients claimed they were owed as much as $13 million worth of wine. .... | |
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| | | Nothing French about it | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:47:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Got wine on your mind tonight? Forget your usual Pinot Noir or the regular Merlot. Indulge in some Barolo from Piedmont in the northwest of Italy or some Shiraz from Australia. Because that really is what is slowly taking over elegant dining tables of late - new world wines and those from the rest of Europe. We export other European wines as well as new world wines and I see them gaining an acceptance in the market, says AM David, vice president, Sultania Trading, a firm that deal in wines and other imported alcohol. Having recently brought in La Poesie and some Italian grappa to India, David says the toughest part of about bringing exqusite French wines to India is the lack of infrastructure to clear it as soon as it arrives in the port. So I suppose a new world wine travels better that way and is not too expensive either, he says.... | |
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| | | Schneider Electric named winner in French contest | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:20:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | If recent opinion polls tell the truth, then the French are more doubtful about the benefits of being in Europe than their traditionally more Eurosceptic UK counterparts. But the same cannot be said of their companies. Record profits are being chalked up by CAC 40 companies, largely on the back of international operations. .... | |
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