A MAKE Magazine contributor Colin Berry did a radio piece last week about how a school in Santa Rosa, CA is training dogs to identify vineyard insect pests by scenting their sex pheremones.
A very different kind of environmental damage is found each year in California Wine Country. The damage doesn’t come [...]
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Every year they throw the Skip Long Memorial Car Show in memory of the 25 year old car builder who had died. And each year it seems it gets beigger, and has better cars. This car show has everything from hot rod cars from the 30’s to classic restored cars from the 50’s, [...]
OK… so this weekend I read about how South Africa is one of China’s biggest sources for copper… but has no copper mines. Basically thieves steal copper lines and sell it to recyclers. Enough so that they have become a major source. Then last night my wife gets a call to let [...]
Ahead of time I’m going to let you know that I’m biased in that my son is in Sandy Nugent’s Napa Valley Dance Center, and that she is my sister’s Mother-in-Law. But I trully believe that she has one of the biggest hearts, and all that she does for kids, including my nephew with [...]
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I’m pissed. I live in a very nice city… surrounded by a lot of people who for the most part are pretty nice. So we’ve thought nothing of the fact my wife walks a few blocks (around 12) from our house to her work and back. But today somebody got on my shit list.
As my [...]
Forbes did a wonderful write up about a few of the family owned Napa vintners. Focusing on the ones you can easily buy wine from, and are still small. There a re a number of names missing from the list but these overviews give you a good idea on the makeup of some [...]
An all-in-one plastic wine bottle and cup has been produced by Australia’s Hardy Wine Company, the country’s largest wine producer.
The “Shuttle” bottle, which holds one glass of wine, has a detachable plastic container at the top.
“It’s portable (and) it means you only need to buy one product to enjoy a glass of wine,” Miriam Leenders, [...]
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A wine war is pitting consumers - who want the option to purchase wines directly from wineries and retailers - against the wine wholesaler cartel, who are threatening consumers and winemakers with jail time if they bypass the middlemen.
Free the Grapes! is a national, grassroots coalition of consumers, wineries and retailers [...]
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I recently wrote about Eric Copple having been found guilty (after admitting it) and getting life. But on that night he killed two women, there was a woman downstairs that escaped… and still lives with that night on her mind. Below is her story.
Woman who survived night of murders still seeking perspective, peace
Lauren [...]
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Napa resident Eric Copple pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to two counts of first degree murder in the Nov. 1, 2004, slayings of Adriane Insogna and Leslie Ann Mazzara in a west Napa home.
Copple, 27, agreed to a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole at a Napa County Superior Court hearing, [...]
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