Various varietals, from A to Z (The Washington Examiner) If variety is the spice of life, then our proverbial spice rack is overflowing. Each year we get wine samples from so many producers throughout the grape-growing world that we had to install a separate wine rack just to keep track of them....more...Say bye bye to bananas, hello local with '100 Mile Diet' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Say good bye to coffee. Adios to chocolate. Bananas, pineapples and olives too. Seattle residents committed to following the "100 Mile Diet" -- eating only what's grown 100 miles from home -- said sayonara to all of these items this month....more... WINE: Wine seasoning launches; AVA for Calistoga closer (North Bay Business Journal) The odd couple of asparagus and red wine may be bound for a happy marriage....more... Vintage purchase for Ste. Michelle, partner (Seattle Times) Ste. Michelle Wine Estates of Woodinville is poised to become part-owner of Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, the famous Napa Valley estate that......more... DINING (Sarasota Herald-Tribune) DINING...more... Angels fans speak out (Orange County Register) Why not rename our beloved Anaheim Angels, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim located near San Diego. I mean come on Art, how could you miss out on another major metropolitan area that wants no association with Orange County? Maybe you figured they already have a team in San Diego. Well, guess what?...more... Business Briefs (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder) ?Microsoft Windows Vista Revisited? will be the main topic at the Aug. 5 meeting of the SLO Bytes PC Users Group, presented by members Dave McLaughlin and Alan Raul....more... Television movies for the week of July 29 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Read this article ]...more... California Farmers Cashing in on China (The San Francisco Examiner) (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) A grape picker dumps a load of Cabernet Franc grapes into a bin on one of the last days of this year's wine harvest at the La Jota winery vineyard atop Howell Mountain in Angwin, Calif.,...more... |