Category Archives: Wine

Collecting wine can be a very fun and exciting hobby – especially when you try to find the wine. If you are looking to collect wine, you may end up spending a bit more money than you thought. Wine collecting is a great hobby, although it can be very expensive. If you are just starting out, the tips below may come in very handy to help you get started http://www.hostmysql.info The first thing to do, is find a place to store your wine. You can store your wine at home, although you’ll need to have a location with the proper … Continue reading →

A daring burglary at a Tower Hamlets warehouse saw around 400 cases of vintage wine taken.
Detectives are appealing for information over the incident which took place at a building under railway arches in Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, sometime between midday on Saturday May 21 and 10am the following day.

Special Report: Valley Wine Boom Wine tasting does not have to be complicated, nor does it have to be along the coast of California! Ficklin Vineyards is the largest producer of port in the country, has won numerous awards, has been recognized in magazines… and is located in Madera County. Peter Ficklin with Ficklin Vineyards said, “It’s third generation; we’ve been doing it for over 60 years, and we’re right here. We don’t have to go to Napa or Paso Robles.” If you want to taste exceptional ports while also experiencing the history and tradition, you can do it without … Continue reading →

The last year for the Southern Oregon Wine Institute’s first graduate, Sandy Glaser, has been a flurry of planning, building and bottling. She’ll get to see her hard work pay off Friday, when Glaser Estate Winery makes its grand opening.“I feel like the star child,” she said, beaming on the front porch of the tasting room overlooking the North Umpqua River. “I studied really hard for this.”Glaser enrolled in the two-year program on the campus of Umpqua Community College in 2008 and earned her associate of applied science degree in viticulture and enology in June. She quickly began making plans … Continue reading →

Around 400 cases of wine, worth an estimated 1 million pounds ($1.63 million), were stolen from a warehouse in London and two men have been arrested so far, police said. “The stolen stock is rare and valuable,” Detective Constable Ash Rossiter said. “It may be the aim of those who have stolen it to try and sell it to private collectors or auction houses.” The men broke a padlock and disabled closed-caption television cameras to break into the facility, London’s Metropolitan Police said in an e-mailed statement today. The wine, some owned by private investors, was at a warehouse in the Bethnal … Continue reading →

A bill was introduced in Albany yesterday that would allow New York grocery stores to sell wine, just as it’s sold in many other states, reports The Wall Street Journal. The bill, which has bipartisan support in both the Assembly and Senate, has already been met with stiff opposition from liquor store owners across the state who fear the measure could put them out of business. The state’s supermarkets claim the new wine sales would create thousands of jobs and stimulate the economy. From Crain’s Business New York: Supermarket owners said allowing them to sell wine would boost state tax … Continue reading →

Recommend By Anya Martin, MarketWatch DECATUR, Ga. (MarketWatch) — As baby boomers approach their golden years, they are embracing wellness and wine — two things that don’t always go together. While a glass of red wine a day may reduce the risk of heart disease, many boomers are drinking a lot more and not realizing they are increasing their potential risks for other serious health problems, ranging from alcohol abuse disorders to chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, liver disease, pancreatitis and certain cancers, said Dr. Robert Huebner, acting director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s Division … Continue reading →

Flanagan, 47, now operates TheWineGuyStore.com, an e-commerce wine concierge service. All of his time, every day, is spent immersed in wine — not payroll, inventory, marketing or employee management.“This is what I do all day long: I sit here, search the Internet, do research for people and find great deals,” he said. “I don’t have salesmen trying to sell me stuff I don’t want. I don’t have employees who need me to do this and that. I don’t have telesales and advertising people coming in all the time. I’m able to keep the main thing, the main thing.”Flanagan’s clients include … Continue reading →

Like a good wine, sometimes a piece of legislation improves with age. So it is with a proposal to sell wine in groceries stores and some other establishments in New York. It’s getting there.We’ve supported this idea in the past. It’s the right thing for consumers, whose choices shouldn’t be limited for the sake of preserving the virtual monopoly that liquor stores in this state have long enjoyed. It’s also the right thing for New York, which stands to gain an estimated $350 million in licensing fees, under the latest projections.Our endorsement of the idea, however, comes with a very … Continue reading →

A few years ago I was drinking wine here in Miami with a French friend whose family owns a winery in Burgundy. I poured him something from this hemisphere – it was either a California Cabernet or a Chilean Carménère – and from the look on his face I could tell he thought I was dispensing blood in his glass. Ditto when he tasted it: too heavy, fruit-forward, spicy, all the usual Old World criticisms of New World wine. “In France we prefer our wines to be more… subtle,” he sniffed. To which I replied, “Was it subtlety that saved … Continue reading →