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"California winemaker Fred Franzia says the world would be better off without all that expensive Napa Valley wine. And that's not just an opinion--it's a business plan." Hey All! Just thought you'd find this amusing: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060501/franzia.html

"One barrel! All I wanted was one barrel and I got a winery," laments Cheryl Phillips, wife of Randy Phillips and co-owner of the Red Soles Winery in Paso Robles.

If Paso were the Hollywood of the wine world then Cheryl and Randy would be the Angelina and the Brad. They are the cool kids; the ones who stumbled, or rather stomped upon a barrel of grapes in their search for a new hobby and ended up with one of the most successful and welcoming wineries in the area. Venturing into th… Continue

by Mimi Toro

For those of us who aren’t quite clear about the origins or meaning of the prepositional phrase, “to the face,” a brief debriefing:

Dating back to the golden ages of fledging wine exploration and the founding of the secret brotherhood of the Face, this phrase was uttered as a right of passage for those who wished to cross the threshold and enter the infamous secret enclave of the Order, a site later identified by anthropologists as 1545 Larkin (recently excavated f… Continue

If there is one wine that i find myself subconsciously searching for upon each glance of a wine list, no matter the restaurant, it is Almvs. And yes, that is a "v." I'm particularly fond of the 2003 Cuvee Kemiji, made by Master Sommelier Emmanuel Kemiji and Sylvain Portay, award winning French chef of The Dining Room at the Ritz Carlton, San Francisco. This Bordeaux style blend elicits a Pavlovian response that only See's Candies could match. Complete sensual satisfaction, from the rich, dark in… Continue

check it out.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/genomics-could.html

so we can't exactly stop global warming.
leave it to the wine-o's to just go with the flow.