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Wine and food pairing has some semi-rigid guidelines and some aspects that is guided by individual preferences.Finding a midway between these points of view can be tricky but it must be fun

While Napa Valley wineries have been adding solar panels in unprecedented numbers, the solar arrays have posed an easy target for thieves in the night.

ABC Liquors is still expanding despite the recession. The Orlando-based chain now has 152 stores operating and wants to add 11 more before the end of next year.

Thirty-three years ago, George M. Taber set the world of wine on fire with a four-paragraph dispatch about a tasting in France that compared the work of French vintners with those of their counterparts in California.

Singer Vicki Stevens' band had already been entertaining Emerson Vineyards visitors with several tunes by the time the singer walked into tasting room at 12:25 Saturday afternoon.

Nov 23rd 2009 at 3:01PM For the wine lover who has everything popular California winery Kendall-Jackson has a new service that is a step above their usual offerings.

Their early 19th-century home, built by a former governor of Virginia, is used as an inn at other times.

Competition is a fierce thing. None more so, surely, than among the 23 or so wineries whose vineyards drape and paint the idyllic landscape in Loudoun County coined as "D.C.'s Wine Country" by the Loudoun Convention and Visitors Association.

An advanced grower workshop for those involved in commercial wine-grape production will be presented from 9 a.m.-noon on Dec.

Most of us eat chocolate, but do we really taste it? That's the question Nicki Doggart of Hotel Chocolat asked as she lead me to the tasting room at the back of their flagship American store, which opened in Boston earlier this fall.

AFTER more than 50 years the supremacy of Penfolds Grange as Australia's leading wine is under threat.

Dramatic temperature swings, arid climate and rocky soils are prerequisites for growing quality grapes.

When Coca-Cola Amatil's chairman, David Gonski, quietly announced a few weeks ago an effective extension to the employment contract of its chief executive, Terry Davis, financial chatter about the reasons reached a pitch.

Released on the third Thursday of November, Francea TMs beaujolais nouveau is the first wine of the season in the northern hemisphere.

YAKIMA, Wash. If you got your fill for turkey on Thursday and don't have room for leftovers, the wineries of Wine Yakima Valley invite you to spend part of your holiday weekend with them.

"Some people ask about kosher; we explain it to them. Some people don't ask about kosher; we don't explain it to them.

The vines are bare, but there's still plenty going on at our local wineries. This weekend is Thanksgiving in Wine Country.

Corks of Chateau Canon red wine are stored in a cellar in Saint Emilion, southwestern France, in this November 6, 2007 file photo.[Agencies] In perhaps another sign of a recovering economy, millions of dollars worth of wines and spirits sold at three different auctions in New York over the weekend.

Global warming is giving French vintners a new potential headache: In a few years, champagne could be going head-to-head with British bubbly.

Expensive Champagne versus supermarket own brands - " there's a talking point. Which? magazine has taken this subject on in great detail for its December edition with interesting results.

Australia's McGuigan Wines has been named Winemaker of the Year at the prestigious International Wine and Spirit Competition.

An entrepreneur has bought the assets of Central Otago Vintners winery in Cromwell, placed in receivership last year.

The past 12 years here in the Rt. 50 Corridor/Dulles South exurbia area of Northern Virginia's Loudoun County have been an exercise in waiting - waiting for a real local music scene, waiting for decent restaurants, waiting for more upscale martini bars and brewpubs, waiting for the traffic, schools and economy to improve....Basically, waiting for ...

Paris - The Associated Press Published on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 2:03PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Nov.

It is rare to get a chance to see one of your favorite musicians play at a tiny little venue, in a tiny little town.

According to recent research ,British women choose and buy eight out of every 10 bottles of wine that are drunk at home.

Eating fruits and vegetables, and drinking tea and red wine may offer overweight men and normal weight women some protection from colon and rectal cancers, hint study findings from the Netherlands.

A bottle of red; a bottle of white. On Thanksgiving, what wine you choose to complement your gobbler all depends upon your appetite.