Spit or Swallow November 2009

by ginny

WineFestNews

Newsletter for November 2009

RANDOM THOUGHTS

Strictly speaking, you could maintain and maybe lose weight this holiday season by keeping to a diet of wine only. Average calories per a 5 ounce glass of wine are from 105 to 120. For argument sakes, let’s say that you can maintain your weight with an intake of 2,500 calories a day. Hey, that’s real easy math! That means you can have somewhere around 20 to 24 glasses a wine a day. A couple of caveats with this thought process.
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WINE CLUBS

Here at winefestnews.com we have decided to be the only wine related organization NOT to start a wine club. Let’s see – do you really know of any major organization that does NOT have a wine club. It seems like if you are in the print business you, mandatorily, must start a wine club.
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CALIFORNIA TASTINGS

Only a small percentage of visitors to the San Francisco area actually get a change to drive up to Napa and Sonoma or down to the Carmel Valley or even further down to the Central Coast to taste some liquid grape fruit; aka wine. They are probably not on holiday and have to run into the area on business, but they still enjoy exploring wine. What to do? Well, seems like this area is the first to push the yardarm and bring the experience to the city and therefore to you.
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WINE FESTIVAL WEEKLY ARTICLE

winefestnews.com

Check out the http://www.Examiner.com/san_francisco

for our weekly posting of wine festivals. A direct link is

http://www.examiner.com/x-21517-SF-Wine-Festival-Examiner~y2009m10d29-Bon-Vin-Voyage-Weekend-Roundup.

If you would like the long way follow the link above, go to Family & Home and scroll down to Food & Drink. One the page look at the right column until you find SF Wine Festival Examiner and you will be able to see the latest article about what to do in the wine fest world for the upcoming weekend and even a little teasing about what to plan for over the next couple of weeks.

Wine Tasting Room of the Month

LANDMARK VINEYARDS

In 1974, Landmark Vineyards was founded in the Windsor area of Sonoma County by Damaris Deere Ford, the great, great granddaughter of John Deere (the farm equipment mogul). In 1989, she relocated the winery to Sonoma Valley, just off Highway 12 (which connects the City of Sonoma with Santa Rosa) near Kenwood. Shortly thereafter, she convinced her son, Michael Deere Colhoun and his wife, Mary, to leave New York City to join her as partners in the winery. She has long since retired and they have assumed full control; now aided by their own daughter, also named Damaris.

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Landmark Vineyards

Open Daily 10:30 am – 4:30 p.m.

101 Adobe Canyon Road

Kenwood, CA

707-833-0218

landmarkwine.com

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Joke of the Month

Two men went into a bar and had several glasses of wine. After the awhile the one said to the other, “Since you went away to college I’ve been having a lot of sex with your mother!” The second guy responded, “I think you had enough wine, Dad!”

Upcoming Wine Festivals

If the festival is in color it means that we visited it in the past or are planning on attending this year’s festival. You can always see our blog about last year’s festival when we were in attendance as a comment on this year’s listing on our website.

For the weekend of Nov 6 – 8, here’s the roundup:

World Wine & Food Expo up in New Brunswick, Canada

Vintner’s Holidays at The Ahwahnee inside of Yosemite Natl Pk, CA

Wine & Mushroom Fest throughout Mendocino County, CA

Taste of the Beach happens in Santa Rosa Beach, FL

Big Sur Food & Wine Festival in Big Sur, CA

Tri-Cities Wine Festival in Kennewick, WA

SLO Vintners Harvest Celebration in Avila Beach, CA

Carefree Fine Art & Wine Festival in Carefree, AZ

The following weekend, Nov 13 – 15 brings us:

San Antonio New World Wine & Food Festival in San Antonio, TX

Lombardi Food & Wine Experience in Milwaukee, WI

Stone Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival in Longboat Key, FL

Denver Intl Wine Festival in Denver, CO

Wine & Music Festival at Dover Downs, DE

Festival Gourmet Intl in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Great Wine Escape Weekend in Monterey, CA

3 Glorieuses Multicultural Celebration of Wine in Beaune, France

Pinot Days in Chicago on Sunday only

Weekend before Thanksgiving the pickings get slim, but the “must go to” would be the

San Diego Wine & Food Fest (see ya there!)

This is the same weekend that Beaujolais is being poured, so enjoy!

Sorry to say, but this really concludes real wine festival for the year.

Wine Factoid:

This is not a factoid, but inquiring minds wish to know………Has anybody taking the leap and brought a bottle into a bar/restaurant for happy hour and were just tickled to pay the corkage fee? At $14 for a glass of wine at happy hour when we know it is a $20 bottle of wine at the local store, someone has got to try this out!