| California Wineries Lure `Kegger' Grads With Pizza, Auto Parts |
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Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Bonny Doon Winery doesn't produce any vintages at French chateaus. Instead, it shows chateaus on its labels -- under fire from spaceships.
The winery is just one in Northern California that's taking an irreverent approach to marketing, with everything from one pizza-compatible wine to one roaring rooster to names such as Plungerhead and Used Automobile Parts. ... |
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| A cheerful surprise or two |
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With close to 1 700 wines entered for this year’s competition, Veritas can rightly claim to be the country’s biggest with wide support. Results were announced at one gala attended by hundreds of producers. Winning wines will be able to boas double gold, gold, silver or bronze Veritas stickers.
Sixteen expert panels of seven judges each judges the wines. Eight international adjudicators joined more than 100 local judges. The international panel included Leeuwin Estate’s Bob Cartwright, well-known former Nederburg auctioneer Patrick Grubb, Canadian wine writer, Steve Thurlow, Joelle Marti-Baron from Britain, Thomas Lüber from Germany, Madelein Stenwerth from Sweden and South Africans Dave Hughes and Lynne Sherriff. ... |
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| FIVE THINGS: About Detroit drinks |
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Bayview Yacht Club Assistant Manager and bartender Jerome Adams, 60, is the inventor of the now world-famous Hummer drink. (2001 photo by GABRIEL B. TAIT/Detroit Free Press)
Over the weekend, did you sip any of these created-in-Detroit concoctions?
It was invented in 1937 by the owner of the Pontchartrain Wine Cellars, which was on Larned next to the downtown fire station. Harold Borgman combined dry red California burgundy with New York sparkling wine. He was following one German tradition of mixing champagne with whatever other wines were left at the end of an evening. ... |
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