ZD Unveils New Cooking Class Series

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If you know wines from A-to-Z, you're no doubt familiar with ZD Wines, an estate located along the Silverado Trail in the Napa Valley town of Rutherford.

ZD makes a small but always dependable line of wines, most of which are absolutely wonderful with food upon release.

So it would make perfect sense for ZD to host a series of cooking classes. And that's exactly what the winery is doing this fall...

Star Italian Chef to Appear (and Cook) in Napa Valley

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Planning an excursion to California's North Coast wine country next month?

If so, try to attend V. Sattui Winery's annual Harvest Ball on Saturday, September 25.

For one thing, the wines of V. Sattui - available only at the winery - are stellar...

Eating at the Source: Wineries With Restaurants

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It's not yet a trend, but it could become one as we march forward in the second decade of the new millennium: restaurants attached to wineries.

It makes perfect sense, since the marriage of food and wine is the exact opposite of a typical Hollywood marriage: happy. And when the restaurant's menu has been developed with specific wines in mind, that happiness can turn into pure bliss...

Bellagio Rules Sin City's Culinary Scene

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     Las Vegas is packed with restaurants designed (and occasionally populated) by celebrity chefs.

     But no Vegas resort houses a longer list of extraordinary eateries than Bellagio, where the lineup includes...

South African Wine: The Cure for World Cup Fever

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     At the southern tip of Africa, where two mighty oceans meet in the shadow of Table Mountain, lies what South Africans call "the fairest cape in the world."

     Known locally as the Mother City, Cape Town is the gateway to the South African winelands and one of the great wine capitals of the world. There, the cultures of Africa, Europe and the East have met and mingled for more than three-and-a-half centuries, shaping a city both ancient and modern, rich in colorful history and culturally diverse.

     And beginning today, much of the world will be introduced to...

25 Minutes from Napa, a Wine Area Less Traveled

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     It's located just minutes off one of northern California's busiest thoroughfares, yet it has managed to hang on to its agricultural roots and emerge as a hidden gem of North Coast wine country.

     The Suisun Valley is just north of Interstate 80, the road that connects the Bay Area with Reno and beyond, basically between the towns of Cordelia and Fairfield. It is bounded on three sides by roads that lead to the Napa Valley, 25 minutes away, and offers its own style of wine-tasting adventure.

     With its country roads and low traffic volume...

'Memorial Weekend in Wine Country' Is Here

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     File this one under the heading, "Where did THOSE twenty years go?"

     It was back in 1991 that a group of wineries in Oregon's Willamette Valley banded together to host their first Memorial weekend "open house."

     Virtually all of the valley's wine estates opened their doors to visitors, including several that...

A Chance to Taste New Mexico Wines

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     Wine is made, one way or another, in every American state.

     That said, it should be apparent that some states produce better wines than others.

     California would be at the top of the list, of course, closely followed by Oregon and Washington...

Wheel Your Way Through Provence

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     If you've ever been to "wine country" - in almost any state or country where winegrapes are grown -- chances are you've encountered them along the wine trails and back roads: bicyclists.

     Perhaps you even have been one of those bicyclists.

     Riding on a two-wheeler certainly is a slower-paced way to soak in the scenery and scents provided by the vineyards...

Love Pinot Noir? This Festival Is for You

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     It's just a little more than two weeks away, but if there's any way you could swing the trip, it would be sooo worth your while.

     "It" is the 13th annual Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Festival, presented by the Anderson Valley Winegrowers Association in California's Mendocino County. The festival is scheduled for May 14-16 all over the bucolic valley.

     The Anderson Valley has been described as "a hidden treasure of pastoral beauty, colorful history, and bountiful food and drink." It's all of that and more...

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