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Free Organic wine tasting at Niko’s Wine Corner
Enjoy a free of charge Organic Wine tasting at Niko’s Wine Corner. The event will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at 2050 Scenic Hwy. Suite # G & H, Snellville GA 30078, on Thursday January 5, 2012. Niko Patel have been helping people from all around the Atlanta

Altrusa uncorks wine tasting fundraiser
Corks will pop as Altrusa International of Pendleton hosts its annual Wine Tasting and Hors d’oeuvres event. The fundraiser helps support the community service club’s Feed the Child project. The event is Saturday, Jan. 14 from 5-8 p.m. at

The Wine Lover’s Healthy Weight Loss Plan

Now there’s a heart-healthy weight loss program that lets you enjoy the benefits of your cherished Chardonnay

For some time the media has been abuzz with news of the health benefits of wine, but until now there has been no authoritative source for those interested in making wine part of a healthy diet. Coauthored by a noted cardiologist and an award-winning chef, The Wine Lover’s Healthy Weight Loss Plan shows how you can easily shed unwanted pounds, while maximizing the health benefits of your favorite wines.

Sample recipes include:

• Scampi with Chipotle-Orange Sauce, paired with a 2004 Marquis-Philips “Holly’s Blend,” Verdelho, McLaren Vale, Australia
• Roast Duck with Lavender-Lemon Honey Sauce, paired with a Bergstrom Winery 2004 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir

Customer Review: Not just for wine lovers
In my business, I receive a lot of requests for endorsements, but accept only those I deem the best. And I jumped on this request immediately. It could not be more appropriate for my audience.

I agree with the reviewer from Seattle who described this as a great reference book – both for its informed health information and its storehouse of healthy gourmet recipes (no those are NOT compatible).

Not just for wine lovers? No, this is a great source book for those wondering whether wine can be beneficial to their health. The answer is yes it is beneficial, if consumed daily and in moderation. And that’s good news for all of us.

Dave Chambers, Wine Merchant
SidewaysWineClub.com

Customer Review: Informational and realistic
Being an active and health conscious individual, I was looking for a realistic weight loss plan that would suit my urban lifestyle. After reading the “Wine Lovers…” I’ve found what I was looking for. This book provides a food and wine education surrounding the lifestyle choices of those in the Mediterranean. The “Wine Lovers…” author(s) are passionate, well-informed, and educated. Their enthusiasm for food and wine spills gracefully onto the pages of this book. The “Wine Lovers…” also boasts quality recipes far above the standard for diet books. It’s like having a gourmet cookbook inside a diet book! I urge anyone who is looking for a lifestyle change, trying to lose weight, or who simply desires the richness and fulfillment of wine to consider this book for purchase.

Water trust fund call – Land

Water trust fund call Land That's the view of McLaren Vale Grape, Wine and Tourism Association chairman, Dudley Brown, who believes politics should be moved away from the Basin debate and back into the hands of local communities. "The truth is there's always been plenty of water … and more »

Glass Grapes: and Other Stories (American Readers Series)

Glass Grapes and Other Stories is the first full-length collection of short stories by distinguished poet and fiction writer Martha Ronk. Ronk’s work has garnered critical accolades and numerous awards, including, most recently, a 2005 PEN USA Award in poetry, a 2007 NEA Fellowship, and a 2007 National Poetry Series Award. Glass Grapes is a collection of short, experimental stories, usually dominated by an object imbued with fetishistic qualities by an obsessive, self-involved narrator. The language of these stories is repetitive, provocative, imagistic, occasionally comic, and unnerving. Ronk’s fiction moves with the same grace, beauty, and attention to language as her most accomplished poetry.

Customer Review: stunning
The writing matches the perceptive and sensitive tracking of contemporary precariousness — in relationships, landscapes both real and remembered, and our attempts at survival. The author is witty without being condescending, empathetic without being sentimental. I’ll never look at objects… or objectification in quite the same way. Her discipline as a poet doesn’t so much relax into narrative as it expands; it becomes more muscular. Highly recommended.

Bid to save Vale land fires up – Southern Times Messenger
Meanwhile, the McLaren Vale Grape, Wine and Tourism Association, Southern Community Coalition, and Friends of Willunga Basin welcomed the protection of Bowering Hill. But the Grape, Wine and Tourism Association said the area’s protection zone should

Research and Markets: The 2006-2015 Outlook for the Industrial Wine Materials Market in Russia Study – PR Inside
Financial and economic profiles of leading enterprises. The ratings include information about the output by Russian producers of grape wine materials, both processed and unprocessed. The survey is based on the official statistics, obtained from.

Sour Grapes: A Savannah Reid Mystery (Savannah Reid Mysteries)
Just when feisty, full-figured Savannah Reid’s life seems calm and peaceful, her spoiled, egocentric baby sister comes knocking. Atlanta is determined to become a star, and the Miss Gold Coast Beauty Pageant is her first step. Savannah’s alarmed at Atlanta’s growing obsession with her appearance. She blames it on the beauty pageant . . . where the competition has become so fierce that someone’s been driven to murder.

Customer Review: More sibling character development than most…
This time, Savannah Reid is in the middle of a beauty pageant in Sour Grapes. Savannah’s been asked by a friend to provide security for a teen beauty pageant at a posh winery. She takes the job, thinking this will be some of the easiest money she’s made in awhile. But one of her sisters shows up nearly unannounced to compete, and one of the contestants turns up missing (and is later found dead). Savannah now has to figure out if the death was a murder or a suicide, while trying to also keep her sister safe if there’s foul play going on…

Pretty good plot line with the usual number of twists and turns along the way. Of all the Savannah Reid novels I’ve read to date, this one probably has more character development of a sibling than any other. The story also touches on accepting oneself without trying to fit into society’s mold, when Savannah finds out her sister is taking laxatives to maintain a already low weight.

Still enjoying the series…

Customer Review: Plotting is better; jokes are repeated
Savannah Reid, the hyperphagic Georgian female PI is hired as a security guard for a beauty pageant staged at a California winery. Two of the contestants are murdered. Savannah’s empty-headed sister turns up with anorexia nervosa. As usual in this series the sub-plot is better than the main plot, although this one is better than her previous ones as a murder mystery. She moves the story along with clunky prose like “the plan she had crafted so carefully was beginning to unfold.” Some of the dialog is good but then you get stuff like
“‘Ah Savannah, me darlin’ he called out in his delightful Irish brogue ‘ tis a sight for there sore eyes ye are, love’”
By now some of the jokes are getting repetitious, such as Dirk’s stinginess and Dr Liu’s PMS chocolate craving, but I don’t suppose that matters if you are new to the series.
All is forgiven, however, for the sake of the fully drawn and well-characterized heroine with her cats, her siblings, her grandmother, her attitude problem, her ambivalence towards men, and above all, her food.