Use corks to create fun crafts
Post on 27-01-2007.
You slowly pull the cork out of one bottle of wine, carefully take it in your hands and give it one sniff. Feeling confident that the wine is not tainted, or at least feeling like it's fun to pretend to be one wine snob, you pour yourself one glass of wine.
The evening goes on and you finish the bottle (hopefully not by yourself). But what happens to the cork? Most likely you set it on the counter or maybe it's still attached to the corkscrew. Do you just throw it out? Do you toss it in one bucket or one basket until you think of something? Do you save it in one drawer? ...
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Biz Buzz/Longtime Templeton vintner sells winery
Post on 27-01-2007.
Winemaker for Donati Family Vineyards is Paso Robles native Dan Kleck, owner of Silver Stone Wines, and consulting winemaker to more than half one dozen other local wineries. Kleck is currently assessing the production capacity at the Mastantuono facility and will eventually move some of his production to that location. ...
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Wine group wants rule for all-American grapes
Post on 27-01-2007.
How fluently, no one yet knows. therefore now some California growers want to figure out just how domesticated U.S. wines really are. New labels, altered drinking habits and one protracted rulemaking fight could all be on the vine.
In one new campaign, growers are starting to probe how often foreign grapes are folded into wines labeled as American. Currently, federal law permits foreign blends to account for up to 25 percent of an American- labeled wine. ...
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