Wine News

Store Owner Awarded Wine Competition Retailer of the Year Medal for Second Year in a Row (PR Web via Yahoo! News)
Elkhart, IN (PRWEB) May 30, 2006 — The Wine Maker International Amateur Wine Competition judging committee has again awarded the Retailer of the Year medal to Michael Lese, an Elkhart business owner.

Le chateau le tertre
Jun 1st-Jun 15th 2006, Paris Le chateau le tertre est un des tr s grands vins rouge de l’appellation graves de vayres commercialis par Philippe Raynaud dans son magasin parisien les d lices de daubenton.

Culinary Basics/Home Ec Revitalized - 4 Week Hands On Program
Jun 3rd-Jun 24th 2006, Los Angeles CULINARY BASICS ?Home Economics Revitalized Sat, 6/3/06-6/24/06 10:00am-1:00pm This series meets once weekly, 3 hours each day, for 4 weeks.

Trapp Family Lodge California Red Zinfandel tasting
Wed May 31st, 2006, Stowe We will be tasting new releases of California Red Zinfandel, for inclusion on our list.

Wine glut to knock McGuigan (Sydney Morning Herald)
THE hard times hitting the Australian wine industry show little sign of easing. -

Wine of the Week: Chehalem Pinot Gris Reserve 2004 (OR) $20
The 2004 Chehalem Pinot Gris Reserve is a smooth talking, easy walking Pinot Gris from the heart of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The flavor profile is dominated by melon, apricot…

Cline Cellars White Truck White 2004
A very good maker of affordable wines is Cline . Their ten-buck White Truck blend is another “no-brainer”, like their similarly priced California ‘04 Zin and ‘03 Syrah recently reviewed by Winewaves.

FREE Wine Tasting and Guided Tour
Fri Jun 9th, 2006, Hudson Valley Free Wine Tasting and Guided Tours See how over 400 people in the Westchester County area are having fun learning the balance between art and science when you ?Make Your Own Wine? We will be conducting a FREE wine tasting of our 2004 wines and guided tours of our winemaking school on the following dates: June 9 (6:00 pm ? 9:00 pm) June 10 (6:00 pm ? 9:00 pm) June 23 (6:00 pm ? 9:00 pm) June 24 (6:00 ? 9:00 pm) See our winemaking equipment and hear an overview of how the entire process works.

South African wine tour
Mar 18th-Mar 24th 2006, Edinburgh A wine tasting tour to the beautiful winelands of South Africa, hosted by Master of Wine Rose Murray Brown.

White wine turns up in King Tutankhamen’s tomb (USA Today)
Musing on an age-old philosophical riddle, comedian Steve Martin once pondered “King Tut, how’d he get so funky,” in a famed episode of Saturday Night Live. It was the wine. An archaeology team has reported the first evidence of white wine in ancient Egypt. And it has turned up in the tomb of King Tutankhamen.