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Tennessee Food & Wine Festival

October 18, 2011 – 10:13 am

The University of Tennessee is sponsoring the annual  Tennessee Food & Wine Festival on October 21-22. The two-day annual festival in Knoxville helps with scholarships and gives work experience to students who are studying Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management. On Friday, October 21, ticket holders can enjoy  food, wine and beer educational sessions. Friday will also have […]

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Harvest Lamb Stew with a Red Wine

October 15, 2011 – 1:01 am

The Harvest Lamb Stew  recipe below is from Chinook Wines in Prosser, Washington. The winery and vineyards are owned by a husband and wife team, Kay Simon and Clay Mackey. Check out the Chinook Wines website. Cheers, Kathy Harvest Lamb Stew 1 lb. lamb (preferably loin), cut into ½ to ¾ inch cubes 2 T […]

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Annual Fall Wine Festival at Historic Farm in New Jersey!

October 12, 2011 – 5:55 pm

On the weekend of October 15-16, twenty New Jersey wineries will participate in the Annual Fall Wine Festival promoted by the Garden State Wine Growers Association. The festival takes place in Morristown, New Jersey at Fosterfields Living Historical Farm. This Fall Wine Festival includes food vendors, arts & crafts vendors and live music. Tickets are […]

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The Deadly Use of the Objective for a Subjective Statement

October 10, 2011 – 11:18 am

It didn’t take long for Kathy to criticize me for not saying something to another visitor to a winery tasting room on our recent wineries visits. The other visitor was from Ohio and after discovering we were writers said, “The wines in Ohio aren’t very good.” Normally I would seize the opportunity of a teachable […]

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Wine Tourism Report Needs Replication

October 5, 2011 – 2:11 pm

After reading the “Financial Stability and Viability of Wine Tourism Business in the GWC”  conducted by Great Wine Capitals my opinion is that the research needs to be replicated in the United States with appropriate numbers of respondents for descriptive statistics to be accurate. The research conducted relied heavily on responses from old world wine […]

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When Lobbyists (wine, liquor or others) Go too Far

October 3, 2011 – 3:01 am

A recent article, “Liquor Lobby Gives $45,000 to Massachusetts Treasurer,” authored by Frank Phillips on boston.com notes that the money was from a September fundraiser for Grossman. According to Phillips, Massachusetts “… state Treasurer Steve Grossman accepted $45,000 at a fund-raiser earlier this month from package store proprietors, bar owners, and liquor distributors, industries his […]

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Prosser Wineries/Vineyards, Day 4

October 1, 2011 – 10:57 pm

On our fourth day in the Prosser region we visited three wineries/vineyards about a half-hour south of the downtown area. Our first visit was to McKinley Springs. The winery tasting room is in a separate building than the winemaking facility. Surrounding the tasting room are acres of grapes as far as the eye can see.  […]

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Prosser Wineries, Day 3

September 30, 2011 – 9:16 am

We had visits to four wineries on this day but stumbled into an antique shop in downtown Prosser that turned out to be our fifth winery tasting room visit of the day. We began the day at Hogue Cellars, one of the Yakima Valley’s largest producers. Hogue was sold several years ago and eventually was […]

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Fun Wine Tasting Room Events

September 29, 2011 – 9:33 am

For numerous fall wine events taking place through the end of September and the first weekend of October, check out the Wine Trail Traveler online calendar . In addition find out about Laurello Vineyards‘  “Wine for the Cure” on Thursdays. Pizza (Tuscan-style) cheese pizza and a salad are only $7. Money raised is donated to […]

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Prosser Wineries, Day 2

September 29, 2011 – 9:15 am

This is our busiest day in Prosser. We are visiting several wineries: Desert Wind, Mercer Estate, Willow Crest, Milbrandt and  Gamache Vintners. Desert Wind is a destination site. The winery has a production facility, tasting room and retail area, restaurant and four suites for overnight guests. Desert Wind has a sister winery, Duck Pond Cellars, […]

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