Archive for July, 2007

Wings top menu at Corona couple’s new restaurant (The Press-Enterprise)

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

What it offers: A chicken wing that′ll make your heart sing, according to co-owner Veena Mathew. Smitten after the first bite, Mathew said she couldn′t shake the notion of bringing the cafe’s 17 wing sauces and Texas toast burgers to her home city of Corona.

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Ste. Michelle buys into prestigious winery (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Ste. Michelle Wine Estates of Woodinville will become co-owner of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, a highly regarded Napa Valley winery estate, as part of a $185 million deal that’s expected to close in mid-September.

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Ste. Michelle will be co-owner of prestigious Napa Valley winery (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Ste. Michelle Wine Estates of Woodinville will become co-owner of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, a highly regarded Napa Valley winery estate, as part of a $185 million deal that’s expected to close in mid-September.

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Michelangelo Antonioni, Bold Director, Dies at 94 (New York Times)

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

The director?s chilly depictions of alienation were cornerstones of international filmmaking in the 1960s.

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Have shisha cafes gone to ashes? (BBC News)

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Smoking in enclosed public places was banned in England on 1 July. How has is affected shisha cafes?

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August & Italy = Vacanze

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Photo by Owen Kanzler

Marinated olives, roasted peppers, finocchiona, cold pasta salad, fagiolini e tonno in insalata and ricotta cookies. Packed and ready to head out for the month. The warehouses are closed, the winery folks are on a skeleton crew, the cars are gassed up, Italy is going on vacation.

From 10:00 o’clock Tuesday morning until 10:00 o’clock PM one of our Italian wine importers and I ran around North Texas, tasting wines to restaurants. Appointments one hour apart and 14 different wines from Franciacorta to Vernaccia, Super Tuscans to Barbaresco. And we’ll do it again, Today. It was 95°F on Tuesday. With intermittent showers, known in these parts as turd-floaters.

So while Italy dozes off in the hammock of their choice, we will be readying their largest market for the holidays. Some of them will come in September or October and they will be tanned and full of harvest stories. We welcome their participation in making 2007 the best year yet for Italian wines in America. It will not be by accident that this is happening. Lots of worker bees bringing back pollen from the fields to feed the queen.

So enjoy, Italy and Italians. We will think of you between the soaked shirts and label soaked bottles, as the many ambassadors are out in Davenport, Iowa and Mobile Alabama, Tucson, Arizona and Frisco, Texas, making this thing work so the quality of life in Italy will improve. And the wines too.

Wednesday, have a 9:30 AM first appointment, so this will be an uncharacteristically short posting (for me). We have wine to sell and friends to make, in places like Fort Worth and Southlake, Texas.

Photo by Erwin E. Smith

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Special meeting set for pedestrian mall cafe dispute (The Gazette)

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

The City Council will convene a rare afternoon meeting to vote on a controversial sidewalk cafe proposal for the pedestrian mall.

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Coffee and exercising may prevent skin cancer

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Drinking coffee and exercising may prevent skin cancer by killing off cells damaged by the sun’s ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation, said a study of

The coffee-exercise combination produced a “dramatic″ fourfold difference in apoptosis — the programmed death of pre-cancerous cells — between laboratory mice that did and did not follow the regime, said the researchers of New

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Winery that beat the French in ‘76 tasting is sold (The Olympian)

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Washington’s Chateau Saint Michelle Wine Estates and an Italian wine maker, Marchese Piero Antinori, are buying a Napa, California, winery.

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Winery that beat the French in ‘76 tasting is sold (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, the winery that became famous when its cabernet sauvignon beat French wines in the 1976 tasting known as the Judgment of Paris, has been sold. Founder Warren Winiarski said Monday he has sold the winery to a joint venture partnership of Washington state-based Chateau Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and Marchese Piero Antinori of Italy. Winiarski said he will remain an adviser …

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