Free first Saturday of the month, when there is a big wine tasting and DJ parties that draw half the neighbourhood.
Both Mintz and grower De Palma report widespread speculation that some big wine producers are planning to quit the industry.
Half a continent away from the headquarters of the Australian industry in Adelaide, the Western Australians tend to be smaller-scale producers, independent of the four big wine companies that dominate the business.
Both countries have big-league wine industries (Argentina's is the world's fifth-largest), nearly 500 years of vintages, and growing areas with Eden-like climates for farming wine grapes--so warm and dry that grapes easily ripen and pesticides, fungicides, and anti-rot measures are often unnecessary.
Last week brought more dispiriting news for the big-brand Australian wine industry, as U.S. import buyers continued to favor Argentine and Kiwi labels for their everyday quaffs.
Wine talk is big right now with collectors and winemakers claiming the 2009 Bordeaux vintage to be an outstanding one.
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We get it: Wine is a big profit center for restaurants and you want us to order more and more.
Instead of sending waves of sales people out to wine and dine big company financial and IT executives, EnterpriseDB makes it easy for companies to download its software and work with it.
That, in turn, has allowed the big companies that dominate the Australian wine industry to demonstrate that it is possible to produce excellent and consistent wines in large quantities.
For the next 10 years she came up against big names in Kenya's wine industry, but in 2007, taxes imposed on alcohol manufacturing made it difficult to keep prices low.
At Two Hands, Mintz doesn't blame the overall production push in Australia as much as he does the country's biggest wine companies, especially the two giant beer brewers, Fosters and Lion Nathan, which got into wine in an equally big way.
The founder eventually took Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates south to Sonoma County, but a big part of his success was recognizing that California's "coastal" wine belt was a 480-kilometer-long affair.
He was the guy who found the hidden valley of his own dreams 25 years ago and decided then and there to create a model of salmon fishing for all of Ireland with big house jeraboms of laughter by night over fine wine.
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Eric Arnold is deputy editor of the lifestyle section for Forbes and is author of the book First Big Crush: The Down and Dirty on Making Great Wine Down Under.
With wine as anything else, the underdogs can be big winners in a head-to-head matchup.
But Greek-wine importer Mary Paternas believes it could play a big role in the future of Greek exports.
To me it captures the spirit of the California cabernet style that put Napa on the map: it is big, dark, rich and fruity, the kind of wine that goes great with red meat, but in the case of Caymus, it is so delicious and so well structured it is equally good on its own.
But the third bottle-2 Brothers Big Tattoo Red-had a label that told me how the wine came into being.
All the papas made wine in their basements, and the grapes arrived in big, rattling farm trucks -- tons at a time.
This may come as a big surprise since it is not usually thought of as a food wine for any cuisine, especially not the heavy and assorted flavors of Thanksgiving, but I am choosing chardonnay.
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Also betting big on sin-driven sales, Dollar General has been rolling out wine and beer to more stores.
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He adds that another big benefits of this sort of collectible is that, unlike art or wine, which can be very expensive to store and insure, the notes and documents that he does not keep at home can be stored in archival folders in a common bank safety deposit box and insured for pennies on the dollar.
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Pure Food and Wine 's menu of raw vegetable concoctions may make this the Big Apple's most unusual restaurant--as well as one of its best.
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The public battle started when a number of big British supermarket groups stated flatly that any systematic fault was as unacceptable in wine as it was in any other product.
And now here he was on Roasted Pork Tenderloin night with his dried cranberries and his apples and his big damn cookbook, and he was holding a measuring cup up to the light, pouring wine precisely to the three-quarters mark, and he glanced over and saw the expression on my face.
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