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Today's Top Story for Saturday, November 7, 2009

Tennessee-based Sapphire Wines LLC, which acquired the North Coast brands Carneros Creek and Wildhurst earlier this year, has been acquired by publicly traded wine portfolio The Saint James Co. of Santa Monica.

Today's Featured News

AU: When Smoke Gets in Your Wine
An Australian company's technology fixes flaws in grapes. Will purists approve?

Valuable Grape Vines Stolen from U of M
Thieves stole grape vines from the University of Minnesota's Horticulture Research Center in Victoria.

Critics doubt French wine-makers' boasts of a vintage year
It is the harvest of the century in Bordeaux, with exceptional weather conditions producing grapes so fine that dogs are turning vegetarian to eat them. That, at least, is what the region's winemakers would have you believe as they lavish praise on this year's pickings.

Donald Ziraldo back in the wine business
For nearly two decades, Donald Ziraldo was the face of Canadian icewine.

Winery waste makes fuel
As if turning grapes into wine wasn't enough, now wineries are aiming to transform their wastes into fuel. The first example of a new renewable method for generating hydrogen fuel from wastewater is now operating at a California winery.

Today's Featured Blogs

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Fraud & Terroir Nov 06 With the report out of Oregon late last month that the Geological Society of America poo pooed the notion that the "Minerally" taste in a wine has anything to do with the minerals in the soils that the wine's grapes were grown, we are once again reminded that the notion of "Terroir" may just be the a fraudulent, if not romantic, idea that marketers and PR types like me like to flog in front of the buying public.

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More on Submerged Caps Nov 06 When I couldn’t find out much about submerged caps, I started experimenting.

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More lessons from blind tasting Nov 06 Yesterday, I blind tasted 52 Cabs and Bordeaux blends at Napa Valley Vintners’ offices, in St. Helena. And as always happens, there were some real surprises.

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11/06 (1:14 PM) #PasoHarvest 370 lbs of pinot noir from one vineyard processed today. Will amount to about half a barrel of wine.

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11/04 (8:14 AM) #PasoHarvest Vineyards continue to check the numbers on fruit in the vineyard. Some need more time for ripening.

Sonomagrapes (Nick Frey)
11/02 (10:09 AM) Harvest 09 Sonoma County wine makers and growers lunch Friday. Optimism for quality of wines. Pinot Noir crop small. Others average yield

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10/30 (9:02 AM) Jim Barbour will finish up harvest today and says if you still have grapes out you better bring them in! #harvest #napa valley

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