Organic grapes, organic wine: the harvest is bountiful, but the labeling controversy is still fermenting.
In just eight years, Robert Sinskey's vineyards grew from 15 to 100 acres. But the expansion masked a problem: Sinskey's vineyards were in decline. The fruit just wasn't ripening, and he suspected it was related to the soil, which looked fractured and bare. "We felt something had to be...

Moon Handbooks/Avalon Travel.
Moon Handbooks/Avalon Travel 01400-65th Street, #250, Emeryville, CA 94608 www.avalonpub.com Two excellent take-along totes are nearly pocket-sized, yet packed with details. W.C. McRae and Judy Jewell's Zion & Bryce (1566918766, $16.95) focus on Utah's two wonderful parks but also include sections on nearby...

Hollywood Babylon: the recent Academy Award celebration of last year's movie fare has made transparently obvious the huge chasm between the cultural elitists and Middle America.
The year 2004 is certain to go down as a defining point in the decades-long war for the heart, mind, and soul of America. The cultural elites who reign over the fields of entertainment, the arts, the news media, and academia are triumphantly celebrating our descent into a post-Christian,...

Rheingold: The German Wine Renaissance.
Rheingold Owen Bird Arima Publishing Ask House, Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, YK 1P32 6BB 1845490797 $22.00 www.arminapublishing.com www.amazon.com Any interested in the German wine industry's history and ups and downs must have RHEINGOLD; THE GERMAN WINE RENAISSANCE....

Caracterizacion de los canales de distribucion del vino fino en Uruguay.
RESUMEN. Este trabajo busca caracterizar los canales de distribución del vino fino en el mercado doméstico. Para ello se realizaron entrevistas en profundidad a 10 bodegas, que cubren el 85% del vino fino producido en Uruguay el año 2004, y encuestas a 100 consumidores de nivel socio-económico medio-alto y...

Wines of New Mexico.
Wines of New Mexico Andy Sandersier University of New Mexico Press MSC11 6290, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 0826332528 $19.95 1-800-249-7737 www.unmpress.com Here's another rare examination of an area which normally isn't viewed for its wines:...

Zero waste wins: it's not just better for the environment, it's better for the local economy. Ask Nova Scotia.
IF THE COMMUNITY cannot reuse, repair, recycle or compost it, industry shouldn't be making it--that's the position of zero-waste communities. Zero waste is not merely a call for 100-percent recycling, which emphasizes community responsibility and works at the back end of the problem. Zero waste tries to marry community...

Let's Open a Bottle: My Journey Through the Spanish Wine Revolution.
Let's Open a Bottle Brian Murdock Murdock Publishing Company 127 Belk Court, Clayton, NC 27520 0974335908 $14.95 www.murdockmedia.com LET'S OPEN A BOTTLE: MY JOURNEY THROUGH THE SPANISH WINE REVOLUTION takes readers to Spain along with the English teacher/author, who...

Program for Wineries.
The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. has enhanced its winery insurance program with the introduction of Customarq for Wineries. Customarq offers a $250,000 blanket limit for selected property coverages, including accounts receivable, consequential loss, electronic data processing property, extra expense, fine arts, fire department service charges, leasehold interest, outdoor...

Drink up anyway. (Wine Label Censorship).
IT WAS MORE than a decade ago that wineries first tried to inform their customers about the health benefits of moderate drinking. Since then the evidence has only gotten stronger, but the federal government still won't let them talk about it. That is the upshot of regulations...