Found - a lost sister for GrangeHermitage
"PENFOLDS winemakers have found a "priceless" sister wine to the Grange Hermitage they never knew existed. At a wine clinic in Sydney yesterday, a collector brought in a bottle of St Henri Claret stamped 1955."
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Why does my head hurt?
"Consider wine or spirits as a fermentation process followed, or not, by a distillation process. Leave all your romantic thoughts about wine and spirits behind as you don a chemist's hat."
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In praise of (good) chardonnay
"Let's see a show of hands. How many have jumped on the ABC - "anything but chardonnay" - bandwagon in recent years? If so, I hereby declare this silly and destructive oversimplification passe. It's safe to come home."
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The Nederburg Student Wine Challenge.
"The annual Nederburg Inter-Varsity Wine Challenge has broadened its scope to accommodate the growing numbers of participants and is now open to technikons countrywide - and with these changes comes a new name - The Nederburg Student Wine Challenge."
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Music in the vineyards returns with new line-up
"Music in the Vineyards returns next week to Napa Valley for the 8th consecutive season. The 2002 season is dedicated to the memory of Gail Adams, the dynamic founder and leader of Music in the Vineyards who passed away last May from pancreatic cancer."
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From the vine
"Armed with five-gallon buckets, 70-something couple David and Betty House head into their Warren County vineyard while the dew is still fresh. They'll stay in the vineyard until the work is done - until all of the gathered grapes are stored in a walk-in cooler. It may take hours. It may require staying outside in the rain."
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Pocket scanner could signal end of lost shopping lists
"A supermarket is testing a pocket scanner which it says could signal the end of scribbled shopping lists. People can carry the scanner with them all the time. They might be at a dinner party and enjoy a particular bottle of wine, then add it to their shopping list."
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Winemaker, Molly to be honored
"A Calistoga winemaker and a Napa angel will be honored at the third annual Women in the Wine Country celebration on Aug. 11 at Imagery Estate Winery in Glen Ellen -- a fund-raiser for Democratic Assemblywoman Patricia Wiggins' re-election campaign."
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