Web sips: Wine headlines, 9/13/07

Handpicked stories from across the Web…

Have wine experts forgotten the virtues of white wine?
Wine diva Jancis Robinson declares: “Dry white wine can be every bit as ‘serious’ as red.” Makes you thirsty just reading about it.

French launch carton of wine with a straw
Sacré bleu! Will it take this junk-food approach to win over France’s declining wine youth market? “…more amusing,” declares a straw-enamored 21-year-old Parisian.

No wine? Wine not?
And yet stateside, wine is making a comeback among college students. “I think it’s more social because you’re not down chugging beer, you’re able to sip,” says an observant Tulsa, Okla., college junior.

Snobless Sipping Where a Glassful Is Just a Glassful
Pay an intoxicating visit to San Francisco’s eclectic wine-bar scene.

Napa couple shares wine profits with the children of fallen soldiers
“No matter how you feel about the war (in Iraq), it’s about the kids.”

Patterning itself after the home of France’s classic Pinot Noir, the Willamette Valley is becoming a wine country destination unto itself
If this mouth-watering review of wines and wineries doesn’t get you packing to Oregon, nothing will.

Montepulciano high and low
The 30 Second Wine Advisor explains the differences in these far-apart Italian reds. Valuable info next time you’ve got a rib-eye ready for the barbecue.

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Web sips: Wine headlines, 9/6/07

Handpicked stories from across the Web …

Sexy Images, Wacky Names, Fine Art Help Wine Labels Stand Out
Judging wines by their provocative covers: Like the one for Marilyn fans sporting a “fresh-and-fruity” Norma Jeane.

Long Island wines get rave reviews 
Here’s your chance to find out what Wine Advocate, the Wine Enthusiast and The New York Times have in common.

French wine labels may lie
It ain’t pretty: “Up to a third of wines sold under France’s regional appellation system might be from an entirely different region.”

Most Expensive Wines of All Time
Billed as the highest-priced bottles ever (including the priciest one ever broken), with pictures: Pick one up for $500,000, for a gift basket or something.

Fall is the best time to harvest deals, including wine
That’s when “new bottles from last year’s harvest show up on shelves,” says Natalie MacLean, editor of Nat Decants.

Fine wine enters the mainstream via Target
Georg Riedel explains why his glasses land on these particular shelves.

Wine Tip
Finally an answer to that age old question: “When should you pair food with an unoaked vs. an oaked wine?”

Wet weather takes toll on French wine harvest
Can the news get any worse? France is “bracing for one of its smallest grape harvests in 20 years,” a victim of summer storms and plant diseases.

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Web sips: Wine headlines, 8/28/07

Handpicked stories from across the Web…

The Economical Oenophile
Expert Robert Parker touts “perhaps the top U.S. importer of wines priced under $10 a bottle.”

Iraqi Past Ferments in An Unlikely N.Y. Winery
True wine lover: Story of a man who turned his townhouse into a vertical winery.

Grape genome unpicked
Scientists say vintage sequence could lead to new wine flavors.

So long, summer sippers
Looks like we’re heading toward the season for some “serious pinot.”

Caps off to a great value wine
A wine expert’s ode to a “a classy $10 white in a funky bottle.”

How could one collector find so much rare fine wine?
On the trail of mind-bogglingly expensive bottles.

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