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This week's VinoWeek podcast features Popular Restaurant Wines , Prosecco's Growth ,   Hopkiln's Expansion and much more.    As always thanks for listening.

This week's VinoWeek podcast features Texas wine coming your way , Italian winemaking convicts ,   more talk about sulfites in wine and a tragic murder/suicide in Napa Valley .   Jeremy Parzen pens a good post on building moratoriums and plans to ban new plantings in Tuscany .   Have you ever wondered what the real cost of a $10 bottle of imported wine is ?  We discuss these to...

In this Vinoweek podcast we discuss Yao Ming's recent foray into the world of crowdsourcing for his Napa winery.  Other topics include Premier Napa Valley , the trademark infringement suit CIVC vs Champagne Jayne , Wal-Mart suing the state of Texas for the right to sell spirits, the state of California suing Ernest and Julio Gallo over hazardous dust disposal , and this w eekend's barrel &nbs...

This week we cover the concept of terroir , the new Fountaingrove AVA , weather technology for grape growers and David Ramey 's opening of a new winery .  We also discuss Gary Vaynerchuk showing up at Premiere Napa Valley , Biondi Santi's panning of Brunello for 2014 , the economic impact of craft brewers in Sonoma County and Guy Fieri's plans for a winery in Santa Rosa.   Thanks fo...

Longshoremen Strike, Winery Development in Napa and Sonoma, Tin Capsules, Shiraz Week

There I was in one of my favorite wine stores doing my usual thing, looking at all the different labels and reminding myself to make certain that 25% of my purchases have to be of wines I've never tried before.  It's a good way to keep your mind open to new discoveries and expand your knowledge of wine.  Lately I've been on a Bordeaux buying binge as there are an astounding number of goo...

One of the best ways to sharpen your palate and to learn and experience new wines is to attend a wine  tasting.  Having numerous producers at the same venue gives one the opportunity to economically contrast and compare regions and wines.  That said here are a few suggestions  you may want to follow to help yourself and others more fully enjoy the experience of a large format w...

When you pour yourself a glass of wine have you ever wondered what's in it.  Hey it's just fermented grape juice right.  Living in food centric Northern California with its booming culture of sustainability and organic farming, we decided to look a little further into what may or may not be in the wines we buy and share with our families and friends.  To gain more insight into this...