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• Business caters to chocolate, wine lovers - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com

• Business caters to chocolate, wine lovers The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Dec 18, 2008 Her business, in turn, has grown from an Internet venture to a 4-year-old shop in McMinnville and a year-old store in Newberg. Two years ago, she added wine …

Budget-proof your wine buys with affordable, high-quality brands - DetNews.com

Budget-proof your wine buys with affordable, high-quality brands DetNews.com, MI - Dec 17, 2008 Champane's Wine Cellars, Warren: After a $5 mail-in rebate, the Les Trois Couronnes Cotes du Rhone 2007 (store price $5.99) costs 99 cents. … What to give when your favorite wine lover's been very good South Coast Today Toast winning canuck wines over the holidays Telegraph-Journal all 27 news articles

Food & Wine Annual Cookbook 2008: An Entire Year of Recipes (Food & Wine Annual Cookbook)

Nuts Added to the Mediterranean Diet Improve Heart Disease Risk - eMaxHealth.com
The Mediterranean diet has been proven to benefit people at risk for heart disease and strokes. Now a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, shows that people who were at high risk for heart disease who followed the Mediterranean diet

The Wine Maker’s Answer Book (Answer Book (Storey))
Home winemaking is an appealing hobby for a new generation of wine lovers lured by the promise of a great payoff — small batches of handmade wine. It’s the perfect opportunity to experiment with flavors, have fun playing with chemistry, and share a few tasty bottles with friends and family. But safely fermenting, bottling, and aging wine is a demanding process requiring special equipment, impeccable sanitation, an understanding of chemical reactions, and the patience to see the aging process through to the end. No matter how experienced the home winemaker, unforeseen questions develop with every batch of new wine.

When a winemaker has problems with leaky corks or finds an oily film on top of his fermenting wine, what’s the simplest, quickest way to get an answer? The Wine Maker’s Answer Book is a 24/7 helpline with advice on hundreds of winemaking dilemmas. From the basic curiosity of the novice (What equipment will I need to get started?) to the finer points of fermentation (What is the impact of malolactic fermentation on acidity?), every step of the process is covered in detail.

Author Alison Crowe uses a friendly question-and-answer format to explain the mysteries of turning grape juice into wine, whether the reader is beginning with fresh grapes or a home winemaking kit. To the straightforward requests for information, she offers detailed descriptions of procedures and equipment. For stickier real-life problems, she first carefully assesses the possible causes and then gives expert advice on fixing the trouble.

Covering the entire range of situations a winemaker is likely to face, this handy, at-a-glance reference will make every batch of wine taste better.

Customer Review: the wine maker’s answer book
Great book for amateurs wine makers. This book will answers many questions and problems you may have with making fine wines. I entered a international wine competition in 2007, I entered 4 different types of wine and won one gold medal. After buying this book and reading it from cover to cover, I entered 3 different types of wine and walked away with 3 medals in the 2008 comptition (one gold and 2 silvers).
This book is well worth the money,and I want to thank Alison Crowe for writeing this great book.

Customer Review: Nice QA book
This is a nice book that will answer questions for those interested in home winemaking as well small scale wineries.

Live Christmas wine Q&A - Guardian Unlimited
Which wine should you ask Santa to bring you this Christmas ? Do they make Ice Wine in Lapland? What’s the best sparkling wine to use in your Bucks Fizz? Are supermarket Yuletide wine bargains all they are cracked to be? What are the best reds and

Book these gifts for the wine fans on your list - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The experience: When someone says a wine is “concentrated,” this is what they’re talking about. Mostly mourvedre (”monastrell” in Spanish) with a touch of garnacha (grenache), this wine starts very dry and leathery, opens up in mid-palate and

The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization

I picked up this book because of the title. It sounded like it might be helpful with my own changing taste and evolution with wine. It did and it’s a terrific book.

As a native Californian, when I started drinking wine in the late 60s it was California Cabs and I loved them. However, over time I eventually grew tired of buttery chards, and jammy reds. When I started to explore French and Italian wines it was confusing and a disappointment at first. But then the subtlety finally got to me and they began tasting elegant and unique. It wasn’t long until the overly fruity and oaky wines were hard to drink. Furthermore, I slowly began to realize that the 1-100 point scale for wine that I once used religiously became an almost inverse guide— if Parker or Wine Spectator, or Wine Advocate gave something a 90 plus rating, I would worry that it was way too fruity.

Kermit Lynch’s terrific book–Adventures on the Wine Route, really opened my eyes–or taste buds–and helped in a historical context to more understand what fine, soulful wine is all about.

Alice Feiring’s book takes it a step further and nails it for the wine world of today! This is a wonderful, funny, and insightful work. Her many different points of contact in the wine world reveal just how the current disincentive for authentic wine has occurred–everywhere in the world. Her personal references humanize the story making it more fun to read than the typical wine book. Within the fascinating stories, are remarkable, if not startling specifics of what to avoid and what to seek out in trying to find the unique, quality wines that are honest expressions of the area and not artificially doped-up and homogenized to a single commercial taste. All this is extremely important to anyone who really wants to improve their understanding and find truly good wine–old or new world. Fortunately, they do exist in both and his books points you in the right direction.

But perhaps most importantly, Feiring is a competent and courageous voice helping to get the world of wine back on track.

Bravo and carry on!