Argentine wines are not as well-known in North America as those of Chile, but the areas just below the Andes Mountains, such as Mendoza and San Juan, produce excellent, red wines, including Syrah,...
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Compassion and California wine-making skills have combined to create a home for 90 mentally disabled "students" of all ages and to craft some surprisingly good wine. Coco Farm, founded in...
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Parducci Wine Cellars, in the Mendocino, California town of Ukiah, just might be the country's most ecologically-minded winery. In addition to being the nation's first carbon-neutral winery,...
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The wine business is a tough one. It is hard enough when your winery is in an area that is well-know for wine such as California or Washington. I think it must be even harder when you're a small...
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According to a recent article in Canada's Financial Post, organic wineries are on the rise in Canada, and winemakers could not be happier. They feel good that they are doing something positive for...
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Agriculture is starting to shift in Southern Maryland. Where tobacco crops once grew, grapevines are being planted thanks in part to a state-sponsored buyout program to help promote other crops. From...
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Oh, 2007! Everything I read lately is telling me that the quality of grapes from this year's harvest might produce, dare I say, one of the best vintages ever? Rumor has it, 2007 might even surpass...
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Tuesday morning the harvest season began at Mumm Napa winery, one of California's top producers of sparkling wine. The picking began before dawn at the Rodgers Vineyard, located just north of the...
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I would guess that many of you imagine a landscape similar to this photo when someone says, "Arizona." Of course, I've never spent much time out west (with the exception of a three-day...
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Perhaps people associate Michigan with auto manufacturing (thanks to the city of Detroit), but it's actually the country's eighth-largest wine-growing state. Currently 1,500 acres of vines are...
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New World wines, with their lower prices and decent quality, have been threatening countries like Italy, France, and Spain that have been producing amazing wines for centuries. More people, even in...
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Almost two whole months of rain have nearly ruined large parts of this year's wine harvest in France. The damage is especially bad in Bordeaux. Mildew, thriving in the warm and humid weather, has...
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According to the July 2007 issue of Travel+Leisure magazine, Virginia is one of the five up-and-coming wine destinations worldwide. Parts of Italy, Chile, Spain and New Zealand rounded out the Top...
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Who hasn't noticed that many wineries (I'm looking at you, California) have been banging up the alcohol content in the wines they produce? It's a hot-button issue in the industry, and many...
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Did you know that Texas ranks fifth among wine-producing states in the U.S.? It's becoming a hot industry down there and consumers want to drink more and more homegrown vino. The popularity has...
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There is no question that New Zealand wines are hot, and the demand for them is growing, which means that wineries want to produce more. Unfortunately, it seems that some employers are taking...
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There are wineries in all 50 of the United States, but as we all know some are better known than others. I live in New York, right on the Hudson Valley Wine Trail, and there are plenty of people...
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by tammy on April 11, 2007
It's already up to the mid-80s today, so it's just so hard to remember that not but a few days ago we were actually experiences cold weather, not just cool weather, down south....in April!...
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by tammy on March 26, 2007
This is sort of related to the post I just made about burning vineyard leftovers. Ideally, these should be cut up for mulch. Another idea introduced by Californians, specifically in San Francisco, is...
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by tammy on March 25, 2007
California usually leads the nation if not just about the rest of the world in its efforts to protect the environment, and considering the size of this states, which is larger than probably a good...
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by tammy on March 14, 2007
Idaho has been known for a long time as one of the states in the U.S. that isn't that easy to get a drink in. In fact, they only recently lost one of their last "dry" counties, so they...
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