Sebastiani Vineyards, the historic family-owned winery in Sonoma, has been sold to the Foley Wine Group, based in Santa Barbara County. “Just today, we signed the final document selling the winery together with the brand to the Foley group,” the

Warmer Northwest may be good for wine - Spokane Spokesman-Review
Thurston Wolfe’s 2006 Tempranillo sits in the tasting room. Tempranillo has only been recently grown in Washington state. (KEVIN QUINN Special to The Spokesman-Review) When Rick Small began growing wine grapes in the 1970s as a third-generation

Japanese slow food - Thanhnien
Located in the city center, the restaurant is outfitted in modern Japanese style, reasonably priced and has polite professional service. The menu s wide range of Sashimi and Sushi (raw fish or seafood with rice wrapped in seaweed sheets) is made

If there’s the slimmest ray of sunshine in Gov. Paterson’s otherwise gloomy proposed state budget, it concerns the availability of wine. At long, long last, New York will likely join 35 other states in allowing the sale of wine as well as beer in
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States Eye Higher Taxes on Beer, Wine, and Liquor - US News and World Report
SAN FRANCISCO When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed raising California’s tax on alcohol by a nickel a drink earlier this week, part of an ongoing effort to close the state’s $40 billion budget gap, California became the 27th state this year to
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LONDON: British beer drinkers found a measure of good news yesterday amid a flood of economic downers: the pint would not have to be renamed. After a long debate over whether the European Union would force pubs to serve beer by the half-litre, the
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A pint is still a pint in Britain - WPVI
Britain’s beer drinkers got some good news yesterday, when the European Parliament decided not to force beer to be sold by the half-liter. The EU will allow the U.K. to keep using some traditional imperial measurements, such as the pint and mile
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