The Bottle and Cork - Napa and Sonoma Wine blog

Foster’s announced last month plans to sell 36 of its non-core vineyards as a part of its strategic wine review. The Winemakers Federation of Australia says the country faces a wine grape oversupply of about 20%. … JESS JACKSON’S KNIGHTS VALLEY WINERY and tasting room was approved earlier this week by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. Jackson Family Wines plans to operate a 5000-case winery in a restored facility that’s about 150 years old. …

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Wine & Spirits Daily: UBS Downgrades Pernod Due to Dwindling …

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors just approved Jess Jackson’s newest winery, Pelton House on Hwy 128 in Knight’s Valley. Now Knights Valley is a beautiful place, but there’s been a bad case of NIMBY-ism there for the past several years. …. seem to be performing pretty well: I’ve seen at least one review of 2004 Cab which garnered a 93 pt score for Wine & Spirits, and a 91 pt score from Stephen Tanzer…so it doesn’t look like just another run-of-the-mill winery. …

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The Zinquisition: Right choice to approve Jackson's new winery

Colchaqua Valley is a throw back to what the Napa Valley was like in the 30’s. Totally agricultural with the major winery located within short distance of the vineyards. Labor is cheap and life is slow

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Colchaqua Valley Wine Country | The Wine Traveler

(I wanted to say dang quesadilla) Mr. Wii went to the wine garage, where we store our wines, to pick out a nice wine to go with the quesadillas. He came in with Toad Hollow Eye of the Toad, a 2007 Sonoma County Dry Pinot Noir Rosè. …

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Kansas City Gravy Company: A Wine Review: Toad Hollow, Eye of the Toad

Flown in from an unincoporated area of Sonoma County near Petaluma, both the climate and method of raising their poultry makes these ducks about as flavorful as one can find. And then appeared—as we switched to a hearty Zinfandel—the …

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Dining Review: Per Se - Chef Pierre's reviews of new NYC …

We already talked about the Napa Valley Vintners tasting but it doesn’t stop there. Next up was the Skurnik portfolio event which means tables and tables of great wines from all over the globe for tasting. … The next day I was off to the Napa Valley Women of Wine & Vine Luncheon at Gramercy Tavern. (I know, I know, poor me, no rest for the weary, and all of that!) This was probably my favorite event of the week because I was able to speak to some fascinating women in …

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drink the good stuff!: Napa Valley Takes NYC By Storm

Sonoma-grown artist Mack Hill’s 12-panel piece depicting 12 years of Watchmen comics that he created to coincide with the opening of “The Watchmen” movie last weekend, received great reviews from L.A. Weekly this week, …. Any home winemaker is invited to enter. Drop off your entries at The Valley Wine Shack at 535 W. Napa St., Sonoma. Entry forms and contest rules can be found at www.vomdes.com or at the Wine Shack. Turn in wine and forms by Friday, March 27, …

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St. Patrick's and Himalayan New Year | Kathleen Thompson Hill

The Napa Valley Wine Train makes its way into St. Helena in 2006. City residents and leaders have long opposed the idea of allowing the Wine Train to let passengers disembark in town, but now business leaders are calling on the city to …

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Upvalley merchants want talks with Wine Train | Napa Valley Register

FAUX NOISE was blathering about a non-existent ‘mag-lev train from Disneyland to Las Vegas (and later to the Bunny Ranch brothel)’ and it turns out that the Napa Valley gets some piece of the pie instead. Gosh, I sure hope to hear that the State of California is going to fix … Sounds like the the park-and-ride lot and a new commuter bus service between Calistoga and the Vallejo ferry are designed to do what the Wine Train people told us that private venture would do. …

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Federal stimulus funds boost valley projects | Napa Valley Register