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The stand of the Basque Country at the London International Wine & Spirits Fair will host seven companies representing fourteen wineries with wines from Rioja Alavesa and Txakoli white wines.

Basque Government Minister for Agriculture Gonzalo Saenz de Samaniego will attend Tuesday the London International Wine & Spirits Fair to boost promotion of Basque wine production.

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By DAN JUDGE/Times-Herald staff writer Article Launched: 05/19/2007 08:46:16 AM PDT

ST. HELENA - The birthplace of the Napa Valley's winemaking industry is getting a $4 million facelift.

The restoration of two 1860s-era buildings that together made up the Napa Valley's first winery got underway last week.

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Hugn Johnson was writing a student essay at Cambridge when a drunken roommate returned from a black-tie dinner with two glasses of burgundy in hand. The wines were produced in the same vintage from adjacent vineyards, but even to Johnson's unformed palate they tasted very different. It was, he says, a moment of revelation that aroused his curiosity about a subject 'with an infinity of variables'.

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Wine & Vine: Make an effort to enjoy a wider choice

TWO or three wine tastings a week are tedious. Spare me your mock sympathy; my gripe is simply the tiresome chat of certain wino colleagues.

Wine attracts its fair share of anoraks and I'm not talking cagoules here. Some are absurdly fixated on wine of one region, roundly dismissing all else. Unsurprisingly, two biggies frequently figuring are Bordeaux and Burgundy. I regularly encounter blimpish oddities who are expert in the (mostly top end) vineyards of both, but indifferent about the rest of the vinous world.

And that's my key point. In two decades, production of serious quality wine has blossomed internationally, springing from vinous nowhere land.

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Tasting Wine: ‘Sideways’ aside

I spent a column a few weeks ago complaining about the film “Sideways.” Now, let me focus on something good that came out of that movie: It drew more attention to the wines from Santa Barbara County. For outsiders, Napa Valley has been synonymous with California wine, but I think the undisputed fact is that Santa Barbara County and other Central Coast wine regions gave birth to many of the best wines made in our state.

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Down Under wine sales leave French firms with sour grapes

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The village of Ditchling in the South Downs in East Sussex may sound like an unlikely location for the production of wines to rival the best that France can offer in vintage champagnes.

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Don't take it on my authority alone - but there's increasingly widespread respect for the products of English grapes in the media.

And, if you still don't believe us, take a trip into English wine country and find out for yourself.

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