Grape Expectations: Vines May Love Vivaldi
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A Tuscan vineyard is testing to see whether music helps grow bigger vines in less time.
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FOUR years ago, when Vino wine shop on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland began carrying wine made from the Sicilian grape Nero d'Avola, many customers had never heard of it.
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(InfoWorld) - Baffled about which wine to pick up en route to an important holiday party where you happen to know they'll be serving elk? Business intelligence (BI) software vendor QlikTech International AB may be able to help you resolve that thorny little problem with its wine selector application. Drawing on publicly available information and his own knowledge of more than 3,000 wines, a QlikTech consultant has created The Wine Press . The seasonal online application enables users to match up a wine with particular foods or choose a bottle based on a variety of characteristics including price, color, flavor, vintage and country of origin. The Wine Press is the second in an upcoming series of consumer-type applications of BI software that QlikTech plans to showcase on its Web site, according to Anthony Deighton, the company's vice president of marketing. The first application, Kick It, Qlik It, Love It, timed to coincide with the World Cup tournament appeared this summer and enabled soccer fans to analyze game scores and players' performances. The application drew 30,000 visitors to QlikTech's Web site over the course of the six-week championship and also revealed the interesting fact that the majority of professional players' birthdays occur in the January-to-June time frame. QlikTech is hoping that presenting fun and intriguing consumer applications of BI software will help drive the widespread adoption of the technology as BI moves out of the domain of experts and into the hands of general IT users, Deighton said. The vendor's approach to BI focuses on enabling users to click their way around the technology and not require in-depth training to start using the software, he added. QlikTech intends to spotlight an application each quarter in 2007, according to Deighton. At the same time, Qliktech plans applications of more regional appeal such as football championships specific to the U.K. as well as the The Ashes cricket series played between England and Australia. While he's not expecting The Wine Press to attract as many visitors as Kick It, Qlik It, Love It, the recommendation site is already proving popular and Qliktech may well leave it in place beyond the holiday season, Deighton said. As for what wine goes best with elk? The Wine Press recommends Argentina's Broquel Malbec Mendoza red wine from 2000 as a very good value offering with flavors of coconut, fruit, mineral and oak. Enjoy! Â
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Nearly half of Americans are expected to celebrate Valentine's Day with a special night out. If money is no object and the finest wines are available which vintage should you select?
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WINE will be the topic of choice when a comedy and music show comes to the Staffordshire stage. On The Grapevine will be performed at Lichfield's Garrick Theatre on June 29 at 7.30pm.
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Apparently, raising the price really does make the wine taste better.
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Wine company Chalone thought it had a deal. Now it has better one.
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VIENNA, Austria  Â Good operas, like fine wines, can improve with age. And so it is with the Vienna State opera staging of Verdi's "La Traviata."
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Speculation makes one company a favorite.
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As harvest arrives, Cem Cetintas  tends lovingly to his vines, hoping they yield wine popular  with foreign palates to boost his exports in the face of a  harsh climate in the Turkish market.
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By Suzanne Perez Tobias, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 24--A few summers ago, Matthew Vines had a whole lot of time and not much to do, so he created a Web site.   This summer, that site is his ticket to a grand adventure.
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To Met fans who had grown used to the baritonal colorings of PlÃ¡cido Domingo's Otello, Ben Heppner's true-tenor sound will be a revelation.
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The unconventional Oslavje Bianco from Radikon. (Courtesy of pedrelli.com) Iâm about to go on vacation, so this will be my last post until after Labor Day. As Iâm about to leave Iâm thinking about some wines that Iâve enjoyed in the last week or so and how inadequate our usual descriptive language is to characterize their [...].
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Adapting Philip Glass' Barbarians opera for its U.S. debut requires overcoming significant technological limitations. By Theresa Everline.
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Fine wine isn't the only  thing that gets better with age.
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With the holiday season underway, many will be stocking up on their favorite libations. But if it&#39;s fine wine you fancy, choices may be more limited than you realize.
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Interesting music does not tell us to be good or bad. It asks only to be admired. Getting great music and simple faith together happens, but with difficulty.