Wine growers in Australia are spending millions piping in water to save their vineyards.

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Soiree bottle-top Wine Decanter & Aerator

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This is soiree is a bottle-top wine aerator. Soirée fits securely into any wine bottle allowing you to pour without dripping directly through the Soirée. By pouring wine with a Soirée,the Soirée creates an intermediary stage where the wine is infused with oxygen and then cascades into your glass. In using the Soirée to aerate your wine, you will notice the subtleties and character of the wine emerge immediately upon entering your glass. Soirée delivers a truly open wine just by pouring through it .

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Sasha Rionda visits a Napa Valley winery (CADE Winery - http://www.cadewinery.com ) that is LEED Certified for being an eco-friendly.

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J.K. Adams MWR-40 Hardwood 40-Bottle Wine Rack
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Introduced over 25 years ago, our geometrically proportioned wine racks have sold in the millions. They’ll fit into virtually any space ¿ and are infinitely expandable. Each wine rack kit comes packed with enough extra joining pins to allow you to add on another rack in the future and another… and another… as your wine collection grows. Precisely constructed of solid hardwood and put together like tinker toys, the pins seat so snugly into the octagonal beams that no glue is needed for assembly. Each bottle is securely cradled, even in earthquake country. Three finish options allow you to select a casual or more elegant look. Available in unfinished hardwood beams and pins (N); lacquered oak beams and pins (OK ¿ pictured in circle); or Penguin - lacquered oak beams with black pins (PG). Specify choice N, OK, PG

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How would you pair French wine with braised abalone? A year after Hong Kong scrapped a 40 percent tax on wine, sales are booming, and the territory is positioning itself as the wine capital of Asia.

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Drink This: Wine Made Simple (Hardcover) by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

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Ever been baffled by a wine list, stood perplexed before endless racks of bottles at the liquor store, or ordered an overpriced bottle out of fear of the scathing judgment of a restaurant sommelier? Before she became a James Beard Award—winning food and wine writer, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl experienced all these things. Now she presents a handy guide that will show you how to stop being overwhelmed and intimidated, how to discover, respect, and enjoy your own personal taste, and how to be whatever kind of wine person you want to be, from budding connoisseur to someone who simply gets wine you like every time you buy a bottle.

Refreshingly simple, irreverent, and witty, Drink This explains all the insider stuff that wine critics assume you know. It will teach you how to taste and savor wine, alone, with a friend, or with a group. And perhaps most important, this book gives you the tools to learn the only thing that really matters about wine: namely, figuring out what you like.

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Grumdahl draws on her own experience and savvy and interviews some of the world’s most renowned critics, winemakers, and chefs, including Robert M. Parker, Jr., Paul Draper, and Thomas Keller, who share their wisdom about everything from pairing food and wine to the inside scoop on what wine scores and reviews really mean. Readers will learn how to master tasting techniques and understand the winemaking process from soil to cellar. Drink This also reveals how to get your money’s worth out of wine without spending all you’ve got.

At last there’s a reason for wary wine lovers to raise a glass in celebration. Savor the insider’s viewpoint and straight talk of Drink This, and watch your intimidation of wine transform into well-grounded, unshakeable confidence.

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VITICULTURE : Château Maris (http://www.mariswine.com/).

http://www.ecranlocal.com/

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Spectacular Wineries of Sonoma County: A Captivating Tour of Established, Estate and Boutique Wineries (Spectacular Wineries series) (Hardcover)
~ LLC Panache Partners (Editor)

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From chardonnays to petit syrahs, this guide covers the wines and vineyards of Sonoma Valley’s most prized residents. Each winery offers a new story with unforgettable vintages, varietals, and blends. Winemakers and proprietors share their philosophies, showing a range of terroirs in this small but diverse region that offers growers an even wider array of soil types than France.

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No corkscrew? No problem. CNN’s Jeanne Moos learns how to use a shoe and a phone book to uncork a wine bottle.

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The Finest Wines of Champagne: A Guide to the Best Cuvées, Houses, and Growers (The World’s Finest Wines) (Paperback)

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Champagne is synonymous with celebration and success–but have its festive associations detracted from its status as a fine wine in its own right? Drawing on his intimate knowledge of a classic but rapidly changing region, Michael Edwards takes a radically different approach in this unrivaled, terroir-based guide to the world’s best sparkling wines. Ninety in-depth profiles of the best small growers as well as the greatest houses are organized geographically–from the finest producers of the great city of Reims, wine towns of Epernay and Aÿ, and the leading villages of the Marne, and to the rising stars of the Aube (Côte des Bar) and beyond. Edwards also discusses the culture of Champagne, reviews trends in viticulture and winemaking, and investigates controversial solutions to the current crisis of success in a region that cannot satisfy global demand for its wines. Additional sections explore the gastronomic traditions of the area, give advice on pairing Champagne with food, survey the vintages of the past 20 years, list the wines with the best price-to-quality ratio, and more, making this extensively illustrated work a true connoisseur’s guide to the most glamorous and perhaps the most enigmatic of French wines.

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The south of England could soon rival France as a wine-growing region, as experts warn against climate change.

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Living with Wine: Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing (Hardcover) by Samantha Nestor & Alice Feirin.

America’s love of wine has spurred a collecting and entertaining phenomenon.

Some of America’s most passionate oenophiles have re-invented the wine cellar as an inviting and beautiful part of the home.

True collectors love to share their passion, and this book offers a tour of their distinctive cellars. Created with the help of some of the best designers in the field, these rooms blend luxurious design aesthetics with ingenious storage solutions. The thirty stunning spaces featured include a traditional wood cellar finished with rich paneling and ornate lighting; a cathedral-like space that showcases ironwork inspired by the French Quarter of New Orleans (and has a secret entry from a library inside the house); an inviting living room lined with temperature-controlled wood alcoves behind insulated glass; and an Old World terra-cotta cellar–within a sprawling entertainment center that includes a wet bar, a billiards table, and a tasting room.

Living with Wine reveals the details that make the cellars a welcoming place to return–from the materials, artwork, lighting, and cutting-edge preservation technology to the way the space harmonizes with the rest of the house. From the Bay Area to Boston, Napa to New York, homeowners such as Nancy and John Lasseter, the founder of Pixar Studios; American Idol host and TV and radio personality Ryan Seacrest; and entrepreneur Rick Ryan share insights into what they collect, why they started collecting, and how they designed their spaces to fit their passion.

This elegant volume shows what it means to love and collect wine.

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Jayson Bryant, of The Wine Vault, along with Warren and Glenn of Hell Pizza match wine and pizza.

http://www.thewinevault.co.nz/

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From pampered grapes to budget bottles, wineries tempt untapped customers in China’s growing wine market.

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Everything old is new again with these ancient –and tasty!– white varietals from Campania in Italy: Falanghina, Greco di Tufo and Fiano di Avellino. Learn their history, styles and pronunciation from a master, Lucio Berardino of Terredora.

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Make your own one-of-a-kind wine — A US company is helping individuals to blend their own vintages in California’s Napa Valley, and this year extended the service to France’s prestigious Bordeaux region.

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A lovely video of visiting with Murphy Goode (http://www.murphygoodewinery.com/) and the infamous Hardy Wallace. Yeee haaaw!

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Think corks are bad for the environment? Think again. Screw caps may actually hurt the environment and the global economy. Get the full story about corks and wine from Willamette Valley Vineyards (http://www.willamettevalleyvineyards.com/).

http://www.supplewine.com/

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We catch up with Penelope Godefroy as the 2009 harvest kicks off at Chateau Latour (http://www.chateau-latour.com).

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Saffredi, one of the first super Tuscans, celebrated its 20th anniversary with a vertical tasting conducted by owner, Elisabetta Geppetti of Fattoria Le Pupille and its renowned enologist Christian Le Sommer.

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