Search Results for 'California'

Trendspotting at the California Wine Fair

The California Wine Fair rumbled through southern Ontario, drawing about 2,500 trade and consumers between events at Ottawa’s Westin Hotel on March 30 and Toronto’s Royal York Hotel on April 2. In Toronto there were over 600 w [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

California Wine: the Nouveau Nouveau

It's that time of the year again. Time for France to celebrate its wine harvest by bottling and releasing the first juice of the Beaujolais, and then, strangely, to ship a large amount of it thousands of miles to California. Mind you, [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Cool California weather keeps winemakers waiting

Both of California's famed industries require big up-front investments, significant sales and marketing budgets, and are heavily dependent on star power -- whether from a smoldering starlet or a complex Cabernet Sauvignon grape. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Wine From Here: Natural Wine in California

The documentary film, "Wine From Here: Natural Wine in California" will debut to the public in San Francisco on Thursday, August 25, at 7 pm. The film will be shown in the context of San Francisco's Natural Wine Week. &qu [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

California wine gets an international lift

California winemakers are breaking out the party hats. Exports are booming. Foreign shipments rebounded to a record $1.14-billion (U.S.) in 2010, up 25.6 per cent from 2009. Numbers like that no doubt made Arnold Schwarzenegger’s da [...]

Posted On : May, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

California winemaking actually began in Mission Valley

Few San Diego wine aficionados know that the first vineyards planted for winemaking in the western United States were located in Mission Valley. In fact, those first vines were hand-carried into California by Franciscan Friar Junipero Se [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Wine: California Rhone-style blends

You know you are on to something when there is a large, nonprofit organization promoting the wine you are considering buying."Rhone Rangers" is an organization devoted to promoting Rhone-style wines made in the United States. I [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Recommended wines from California's Santa Rita Hills

Brewer-Clifton makes two pinot noir wines that are available in the Washington area: this regional blend and a single-vineyard bottling named Mount Carmel. Both are terrific, with the Mount Carmel (***, $60) being more intense (but a [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

California wine gets green standards

California wine's efforts to go green got a big push Wednesday when the industry unveiled a certification program for its sustainable practices. The wine industry has for years been pushing its green credentials by letting wineries evaluate [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

California wines get alcohol boost

Like so much else that's Californian, our state's wines are growing big, expressive and controversial. Table wines used to hover around the 12 percent alcohol mark; now, because of changing drinker preferences and harvesting techniques, it' [...]

Posted On : Jan, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Lake County, California: The 13 best 2009 summertime wine, f...

Home winemakers and home brewers all feature on the highlight list for summer 2009 in Lake County, California. Food lover are well catered for with a variety of menus that include a pig roast buffet, island food, picnic fare and of course a [...]

Posted On : May, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Brilliant $40 California Pinot

I generally don't like California pinot noir. This is not a blind, irrational prejudice, but one based on long experience of tasting hundreds of examples of this magical, if difficult, varietal. Then every now and again, along comes a wine, [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

California contrarians

Fans of the 2004 sleeper hit "Sideways" thirsty for more wine on film can look forward to the August release of "Bottle Shock," a movie based on the landmark 1976 Paris blind tasting in which experts couldn't distinguish [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2008 | Comments : 0

Terroir-izing California wine

Discuss Article So Alice Feiring, in her Op-Ed article, "California wine? Down the drain," on the Golden State's innovative and widely admired wine industry, thinks that "[d]ull, fruit-driven, alcoholic wines have become the [...]