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HALL Wines Awarded Prestigious LEED® Gold Certification from U.S. Green Building Council for Tasting Room & Production Facility
HALL Wines, a premier portfolio of luxury wineries and tasting rooms located in Napa Valley, has been awarded LEED® Gold Certification established by the U.S. Green Building Council for its HALL St. Helena modern Tasting Room and high-tech Production Facility. This accolade is the second LEED® Gold award for the HALL Wines St. Helena property…
ProChile Wine Tasting (Vintage Beacon circa 11/09)
On November 5th my husband Eddie (the photographer that forgot the camera) and I ventured out to the Beverly Hills Hotel and met “the new generation of Chilean producers – eight critically acclaimed wineries, showing their wines together in the United States for the first time. Many of these producers have won prestigious international medals…
Eve’s Wine 101: Terroir
Oh, that elusive reference wine drinkers make to “terroir” sets my wine 101 readers to wonder…what the heck is this person trying to say with that one word? Short answer: Everything that went into getting that grape to become that wine. According to the Oxford Dictionary, terroir is “The complete natural environment in which a…
Wine 101: What Goes into A Vintage Year
The label on a wine bottle tells you the vintage year, which is also the year that the grapes were harvested. What the label doesn’t tell you is what happened that year and why you should choose one year over another. For example, we are in a drought right now which we may not remember…
Eve Visits: Art and Wine Gala (Beacon Circa 10/09 )
Most guests at the second annual TPC/West Ranch Art & Wine Gala, held this past Saturday night, had never been greeted with mellow jazz, Dampierre champagne and a Sancerre, appetizers and this on the opening page of any evening’s program: More than 80 years ago, my great uncle, Walt Disney, realized the need to support…
August 2008 Vintage Eve: Meeting Local Winemakers
My husband Eddie and I spending a day wine tasting in Santa Clarita (SCV) is not news. But wine tasting at two different vineyards within ten minutes of our house in SCV is. Chris and Jeannie Carpenter of Newhall have a cellar I have long coveted. Free standing and temperature controlled, with an attached sitting…
CHEF MICHAEL MINA AND DEL MAGUEY ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF DEL MAGUEY MINA GROUP BLEND, A SPECIAL CASK FINISH SINGLE VILLAGE ™ MEZCAL
From the heart of the maguey, and the soul of the village, Del Maguey Single Village™ Mezcal presents a new arrival to its Special Cask Finish Series, Del Maguey Mina Group Blend, released in the USA exclusively for Mina Group, a San Francisco-based restaurant management company led by James Beard award-winning Chef and Owner Michael…
Rocca Family Vineyards Named Napa Valley Organic Winery of The Year at the 2014 NY International Wine Competition
Rocca Family Vineyards is proud to be named the Napa Valley Organic Winery of The Year at the prestigious 2014 New York International Wine Competition. “This award is especially meaningful to us,” says winemaker Paul Colantuoni, “as our organic farming practices speak to the very heart of our winemaking philosophy at Rocca.buy red viagra online…
Hidden Loophole in Wine Shipping Bill Bans Consumer Access to Thousands of Wines
(Washington, DC)—The new wine shipping law inserted into the recently approved Massachusetts budget continues to endorse a ban on the shipment of hundreds thousands of wines into the state. This fact that has gone unmentioned in coverage of the issue and in the bill itself, despite the American Wine Consumer Coalition, its members and others…