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Two Hundred Buck Chuck, Salon |
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Cult Cabs like Napa's Screaming Eagle now sell for hundreds of dollars a bottle. Are they worth their high tariff, or are we swallowing vintage hype?
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Secrets of the Sommeliers, San Francisco Chronicle |
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To the casual observer it probably looks like a friendly chat between dining customer and restaurant employee. There's all that nodding and smiling going on, a lot of polite questioning and answering as fingers point to various printed items in a leather-bound wine list as thick as a telephone directory.
Up close, however, it often feels more like a combat zone.
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Under the Radar , San Francisco Chronicle |
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If the bejeweled, pampered, and exquisitely groomed Cabernet Sauvignons of Napa Valley gathered at a posh bash to celebrate one another's latest rave reviews, and in walked Napa Zinfandel, the festivities would come to a screeching halt....
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The Fog Chasers , San Francisco Chronicle |
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If you plan to hunt fog for a living, you'd better be nimble, especially if the fog dances down coastal ridges and darts through rows of grape clusters in that pocket of Russian River Valley paradise known as Green Valley.
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Two-Tank Garages,
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Micro-sized, owner-operated
wineries punch more than their weight with
critics and fans.
When Mark Herold and his wife Erika Gottl
climb out of bed in the morning, they carry
their coffee cups from the kitchen of their
modest wood- frame house on a working-class
residential street near downtown Napa to a
bonded winery -- their garage.
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Zin Doctor, San Francisco Chronicle |
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While an ailing bird and
a ripe grape may seem at first glance to have
nothing in common, the welfare of both is
all in a dayâs work to Kent Rosenblum. As
owner and winemaker at Alameda's Rosenblum
Cellars, he produces 28 different wines a
year, including 14 current bottlings of zinfandel,
his signature varietal. As a licensed veterinarian,
Rosenblum, 53, ministers to creatures large
and small at his two Alameda vet hospitals.
Somehow he also finds time on occasion to
skate the entire length of the Silverado Trail
from Napa to Calistoga, ski Jackson Hole's
expert runs, help raise two teenage daughters,
Shauna and Kristen, throw a massive annual
Fourth of July party at his winery, and win
the admiration of just about everyone who's
ever tasted his wine, sought help for a sick
pet, or otherwise crossed his path.
Kent Rosenblum, in short, is the kind of guy
who makes life tough for the rest of us.
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"Neanderthals in
Love", Details Magazine |
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He-man love guru Justin
Sterling advises his rabid following that
a little less sensitivity and a lot more knuckle
scraping make for real ladies' man.
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Politics of Cotton, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette |
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As Alima Traore stoops under an equatorial sun to pick sticky-seeded fibers by hand from the bolls of a gangly plant in the cotton fields of Mali in West Africa, it’s a safe bet that she isn’t up to speed on the details of the proposed cuts to American agricultural subsidies in President George Bush’s latest budget.
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Unfriendly skies,
Salon.com |
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Passengers who try to fly
on United are ending up as casualties of a
labor war between the airline's management
and its "employee owners."
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