Wednesday, December 14, 2005 

Fine Wine - Holiday gifts come in red and white


Holiday gifts come in red and white
Indianapolis Star - For more ideas, check out winery gift shops. The shop at Chateau Thomas Winery in Plainfield, for example, has a wide variety of wine-related accessories, plus sauces, vinegars and dipping oils. '

Former winery executives buy Red and White trucks
San Francisco Chronicle - Cline Cellars has sold its Red Truck and White Truck brands and inventory to two former executives of Foster's Wine Estates Americas who are launching a new venture, Axiom Wine Co. Terms were not disclosed. president of Kenwood-based Chateau St. Jean Winery & Vineyards, which Beringer Blass acquired in 1996 spa inventor Valeriano Jacuzzi. The winery is well known for its Zinfandel

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 

Fine Wine - Still No Wine in the Mail, Months After a New Law


Still No Wine in the Mail, Months After a New Law
New York Times - ALBANY, Dec. 8 - Red wine, meet red tape Enlarge This Image Stewart Cairns for The New York Times Paul Winkeller's wine cellar at his home in Slingerlands, N.Y

Katrina destroys once great wine cellar
AP via Florida Times-Union - One of the world's (formerly) great wine cellars down for the count after Katrina MARY FOSTER Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS In the dark, dank recesses of what was once one of the great wine cellars of the world, the fabled bottles sit.

CORRECTED - French champagne house Boizel set to buy Lanson brand
Reuters - in the latest round of concentration in the exclusive sparkling wine sector. BCC is owned by the Paillard, Baijot and