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Three new wine tours from BKWine - autumn 2008

Three wine and gastronomy tours are on the autumn travel program from BKWine. One classic trip, to Bordeaux; one new destination, to the Douro Valley in Portugal; and one gastronomic adventure to Champagne. The tours are organised by Britt Karlsson, founder of BKWine, based in Paris, who specialises in wine, food and gastronomic travel.

Chatham Hill Winery Announces New Vice President

MORRISVILLE, N.C. Marek Wojciechowski and Jill Winkler, proprietors of Chatham Hill Winery, have announced that Brian K. Norkeveck has joined the winery as vice president of sales and business development for Chatham Hill and Sweet Carolina brands in North Carolina and throughout the Southeast. Norkeveck brings over 25 years of experience in the global wine industry initially at the distributor level and then as New England Area Manager with Constellation Wines, a leading international wine supplier and marketer as well as the largest wine company in the world by volume. While at Constellation, Norkeveck managed a four state area, 25 wholesale wine distributors and 32 wine brands.

Carafe Wine Makers Open in Raleigh

If you interested in making your own wine but don't have the space, supplies or a wife willing to put up with the odor check out Carafe Wine Makers in North Raleigh. Ken, Wendy, Shannon or John will open up any of their 25 wines for a tasting. Once you find a favorite they can help you start the wine making experience. Please visit Caraferdu.com or give them a call 919-518-2883.

Record 30 participants at the Scandinavian Wine Fair and Competition

30 Scandinavian wine and spirits producers will participate in the BKWine Scandinavian Wine Fair in Paris on February 11. This is a record number at this unusual wine and spirits event. In connection with the Wine Fair there will also be the first ever Scandinavian Wine & Spirits competition where more that one hundred products are expected to compete for the medals. The Wine Fair will take place on Saturday February 11 at the Cercle SuÃ©dois (Swedish Club) in central Paris between 11.00 (11 AM) and 18.00 (6 PM). The Wine Fair is open to both professionals and the public. The Fair is organised by BKWine in collaboration with The Swedish Club in Paris and Restaurant Rivoli. Full information is available on the site:
http://www.bkwine.com/winefair/winefair-2006.htm

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BKWine Launches Wine Tours in English: two wine tours to France in spring 2006

BKWine launches a wine tour program for English speaking wine enthusiasts in spring 2006. Two trips are scheduled: one, called â��3 Classic Regionsâ�� that goes to Champagne, Chablis and Burgundy on May 17-21, and one that goes to Bordeaux on June 8-11, 2006.

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Yadkin Valley Wine Festival

ELKIN ? The wine will be flowing again in the Yadkin Valley in May. The fifth annual Yadkin Valley Wine Festival, sponsored by the Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce, is scheduled for Saturday, May 20,2006 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Elkin Municipal Park, and promises to be bigger and better than last year?s inaugural event. The festival expects to feature at least 15 wineries and vineyards pouring the Yadkin Valley's best, as well as displays from other vineyards with vines still too new to produce wines.

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New DVD - Wines of North Carolina: Yadkin Valley

New DVD Wines of North Carolina: Yadkin Valley has just been released by Machine Productions (www.machineprod.com). It includes ALL of the wineries and vineyards in the Yadkin Valley that has tasting rooms also information about some of the area. The DVD includes a map to make it easy to find that location. Look for it at a store near you or go on-line and purchase it.

Erricoâ��s Ristorante Hosts Wine Tasting Dinner on November 20th

Erricoâ��s Ristorante will be hosting their November Wine Tasting Dinner on Sunday, November 20th starting at 5:30pm. Catering By Design will pair with Anytime Wines to treat guests to a delicious gourmet meal and a sampling of fine wines.

Chef Gregory Lewis, of Erricoâ��s Ristorante, will prepare a variety of culinary creations while Bill O'Neill, of Anytime Wines, will select and present several fine wines carefully chosen to complement each course. Between courses, Oâ��Neill will discuss the wine for the following course and its producer.

Participants will have a chance to sample the wine before the next course is served. (article)

California Wine Maker Creates ''Jesus Juice''

In a full-bodied blend of blasphemy and ingenuity, a Los Angeles couple is seeking to market a wine called "Jesus Juice" that bears a label showing a Michael Jackson-like figure appearing to be crucified. "Jesus Juice" merlot, the label for which you'll find below, is the brainchild of actress Dawn Westlake and Bruce Rheins, a veteran CBS Evening News producer who headed the network's coverage of the Jackson child molestation case. Westlake and Rheins filed to trademark the "Jesus Juice" name in January 2004, two months after the entertainer was arrested and days after news outlets first reported that Jackson used the term "Jesus Juice" when referring to wine he allegedly gave minors. (full article and label photo)

European Wine Fighting for Survival

t's cold up here at night, and sunny during the day -- ideal conditions for these grapes, which should stay on the vine as long as possible, preferably until November. It's a mild autumn in the slate terraces where the grapes grow that are used to make Winninger RÃ¶ttgen. Vintner Reinhard LÃ¶wenstein walks through his steep vineyards, sifting the brownish-yellow slate soil through his fingers, 100 meters (about 330 feet) above the village on the Mosel River where he now lives.

Tourist season is still in full swing in Winningen and cheerful tourists are still busily quaffing wine at the "MoselstÃ¼bchen." It's autumn in Winningen -- almost time for local vintners to start getting their wine into tanks. According to a sign posted by the Ministry of Agriculture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, it's also the vintners' duty to make their reports: their "enological procedures," their "possession of additives," whether they "elevate the alcohol content" of their wines, and any procedures used to deacidify or sweeten their product.

LÃ¶wenstein plucks his Riesling vines, tasting the grapes. He doesn't need deacidification or sweetening. These vines have roots that reach down as deep as 12 meters (about 40 feet), deriving their flavor from deep beneath the surface; flavors of peach, quince, honeydew, and then nougat and chocolate. He prefers to hold off with the harvest, to allow his grapes to extract as much flavor as possible from the earth, the terroir. It seems to be his favorite word. Terroir. (article)