Delicata Classic Wine Festival returns to Gozo's viticulture heart
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The Delicata Classic Wine Festival in Nadur provides wine drinkers with the chance to savour a wide variety of Maltese wines in a stunning location overlooking Comino and the Mgarr Harbour.
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DOVER-FOXCROFT - A Maine Highland Farmers meeting on wine and spirit regulations involving farm production has been rescheduled.  Originally planned for this Wednesday, the meeting has been changed to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, at the Piscataquis County Extension Office.
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Efforts to shore up the European wine industry by tearing out vineyards have set the stage for a debate as Europeans contemplate the cost of their love affair with the grape.
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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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In the beginning, Enrico Bernardo set out to be a cook. But a fragrant 1985 vintage Gewurztraminer he sipped nine years ago during a trip to Alsace in eastern France, helped the young Italian discover his talent for wine.
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Juanita Swedenburg first planted grapes 24 years ago to help pay the taxes on her 130-acre Valley View Farm near Middleburg in the heart of Virginia&#39;s hunt country.
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Morning Edition , January 26, 2005 In the eyes of many culinary experts, Spain is now the place for cutting edge cuisine.
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The 60th annual Locarno Film  Festival, which takes place in the Swiss town from August 1 to  August 11, will hold a special &quot;Signore & Signore&quot; sidebar  focusing on some of the great actresses of Italian film,  organizers said Tuesday.
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Peter Saltonstall, who owns Kings Ferry Winery in New York&#39;s Finger Lakes region, left the US Supreme Court yesterday feeling good.
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Many people say making wine is an  art and an Italian winery once owned by Michelangelo has  extended that notion right down to its labels.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Most people associate Argentine wine with the snow-capped Andes. But far from the mountains, in the country's soy and cattle-farming heartland, wine pioneers are putting down roots.
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HOSKOY, Turkey  - 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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QUINTA DO PANASCAL, Portugal  - For centuries, wine producers have labored in Portugal's rugged Douro region, refining wine-making traditions that are as entrenched as its steep valleys.
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These days Spinelli's Market is redolent with holiday aromas associated with southern Italy, just as it has been since opening 10 years ago.
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Europe's top wine-producing countries could be forced to dig up many vineyards under proposed EU reforms.
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Wine, Armenian delicacies and a vegetarian Thanksgiving:   Rhode Island's annual Beaujolais Festival will be held Friday from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Rhode Island Convention Center. Tickets,  $75,  include wine and dinner, and support The French American School Of Rhode Island.
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Travel: Some of the world's best wineries are found where you'd least expect them, says Robert Joseph.