Carroll County Maryland Chapter	Links, Literature & More   Quick Click to Features: Gold, Silver or Bronze: You Be The Judge!   YOU be the JUDGE: GOLD SILVER or  BRONZE Pat V's links to Wine Competitions Betty's Corner Archive articles Joe Fiola on MD Wines - Univ. of MD Research Television (Dec. '03) This link connects to Univ. of MD video archives; Requires Real Media Player or Windows Media Player Classic RECIPES..   Tasting Schedule Archives LINKS www.americanwinesociety.com Official Homepage ot The American Wine Society www.marylandwine.com Website combining THE ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND WINERIES  and the MARYLAND GRAPE GROWERS ASSOCIATION   www.cuttinggarden.net The Cutting Garden 410-751-9015   (formerly at the Westminster Pennsylvania Dutch Market) Now, the new Cutting Garden is next to the new Coffee Grinder located in the Westminster Shopping Center. Other shops from the old Dutch Market can be found HERE www.QueenBeeDichroic.com Queen Bee Dichroic I'm A Busy Woman! TM Yes, this is Becky's website. She loves wine. Deal with it. www.winemeupshoppeandtavern.com Wine Me Up! Shoppe and Tavern 61 1/2 E. Main Street Westminster, MD 21157 Telephone: 410.857.1511  www.vinstrategies.com Vin Strategies Bowie, MD USA We were happy to meet Jaime Foster at the 2005 National Conference. Check her website... www.cranberryliquors.com Cranberry Liquors, 405 N. Center Street Westminster, MD, 21157 email Nan Calvert Fine Wine & Spirits Hunt Valley, MD email Betty Wegman's Hunt Valley, MD www.wine.com The Virtual Vineyard - Wine.com www.winespectator.com Wine Spectator Magazine www.wineaccess.com/store/beltwayfinewine Beltway Fine Wine & Spirits www.wellswine.com Wells Liquors Towson, MD www.wypr.org WYPR 'Cellar Notes' Radio Program www.wineenthusiast.com Wine Enthusiast Magazine's Vintage listing. (A Great Vintage Chart can be seen here) winebusiness.com Wine Business Online Magazine www.harrymanhouse.com Harryman House Restaurant, Resterstown, MD www.graperadio.com This website offers Radio show downloads that you can hear now! www.mariettacellars.com BACK TO TOP... Chianti Sites ...from Dean Wilson... www.antinori.it An Introduction to the Wines of Chianti BACK TO TOP... Provence, France & French Wine Sites ...from LeRoy Stewart... eat.epicurious.com "The Wines of Sunny France" article and links discussing French appelations. Interesting site. This is where I got the wine map of France I passed around at the April '02 tasting. www.yakshaya.com/392-1.htm One person's opinion on Domaine Trévallon (the one of which we failed to find a good bottle in two tries) www.beyond.fr/history/oc.html On the Provençal Language. www.stratsplace.com/maps/fred_maps.html More French wine maps, including Provence. GOOD REFERENCE FOR WINE HOSTS re:FRENCH REGIONS http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jean-michel.parault/prov3.html FRENCH ONLY. BUT... you can view websites in other languages using AltaVista's Babelfish translator. Try this: Place your mouse cursor over the link at left RIGHT click and copy the link Click on the Babelfish link above. Delete the 'http://' letters in the 'Web Page' line. RIGHT click and Paste the link into the 'Web Page' line. Under that, choose French to English Click Translate OK, it should say French to Bad English, but you can get the gist of it... www.oenologie.fr/droit/classif/classif_home.shtml#1 FRENCH ONLY. BUT... you can view websites in other languages using AltaVista's Babelfish translator. See below..  This is a good site. Has good explanation of the four French wine categories. It's in French, but much of the information can be extracted even by those who don't know French. BACK TO TOP... CIVIL WAR: North vs. South... America ...from globetrotters Phil & Naomi... North America South America "Pinnacles" Chardonnay '00 (California) [Sorry, Phil, bad link - Dean.] Tikal Corazon '00 (Argentina) Robert Mondavi Merlot '98 (California) Beringer Blass Viña Tarapac '00 (Chile) Chandon Artisan Wines (California) Caliterra Arboleda Merlot '00 (Chile) BACK TO TOP... Washington State  ...from Pennee... Chateau Ste. Michelle www.chateau-ste-michelle.com Bookwalter Wines www.bookwalterwines.com/ (Note: Nov. '02 Best Red was Red Table Lot #12, which is not covered in the website.) Hedges Cellars www.hedgescellars.com/ Snoqualmie Wines www.snoqualmie.com '99 Chenin Blanc (Best White, Nov. '02) '98 Cab-Merlot Columbia Crest www.columbia-crest.com/ BACK TO TOP... Beaujolais! ...from Becky... http://www.beaujolais-wines.com A great introductory site for Beaujolais http://www.intowine.com/beaujolais.html More details about the wines of the Beaujolais regions and a great FRENCH PRONUNCIATION GUIDE. http://www.beaujolais.com Very detailed site about Beaujolais Vine Cultivation and Wine Production: Methods, statistics, terroir, and much more. (Be sure to click on the US/British flag for English) Becky's Presentation handout BACK TO TOP...     Spain ... from LeRoy & Anna... www.civusa.com/consumerCenter/regions/regions.html Wine growing regions of Spain. This site yielded the map I used for the presentation.   www.condadodehaza.com/english/index.htm Producer of Condado de Haza   www.jrnet.com/vino/reference/winemaking.php3 An interesting Spanish wine page   www.jrnet.com/vino/reference/labels.php3 Interpreting Spanish wine labels. This is not all there is, but useful.   elmundovino.elmundo.es/elmundovino/des_bodega.html?param=661 Info about Flor de Pingus.   www.avimports.com/trade/press/20011115.php Info about Prado Rey.   www.klwines.com/product.asp?sku=1002671 Some nice words about Finca Sobreño.   eat.epicurious.com/dictionary/wine/index.ssf?DEF_ID=2941&ISWINE=T Info about Tempranillo.
		BACK TO TOP Tasting Handout (PDF 457 kB) (What's a "PDF"?) Beautiful Blonde Blends By Becky Wilson and Nan Slick   www.clinecellars.com Cline Cellars Wine  Oakley Vin Blanc 2002 www.northwest-wine.com Archery Summit  Vireton 2000 www.darenberg.com.au d'Arenberg Winery Link to the Stump Jump 2002 Riesling - Sauvignon Blanc - Marsanne Blend www.curtiswinery.com Curtis Winery Link to Winery's Fact Sheet on the 2001 Heritage Blanc www.rosenblumcellars.com Rosenblum Cellars Link to Vintner's Cuvee Blanc IV www.folieadeux.com Folie à Deux Winery Link is for Technical Notes on 2003 Menage à Trois in Adobe PDF www.conundrumwines.com Conundrum Link to Conundrum Wine 2002 BACK TO TOP Zinfandel "Seven Deadly Zins" (From LeRoy Stewart, Sep 2004) Here are some Zinfandel links, some of which I used for the Zinfandel Tasting:   * http://www.zinfandel.org/ ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates and Producers)   * http://www.ucpress.edu/books/sale/pages/10047.html Zinfandel, the book I most referenced at the tasting   * http://democratandchronicle.com/goesout/dines/wine/020723wine.shtml Summary of relationship to Zinfandel of Croatian grapes, Plavac Mali, Crljenak Kastelanski and Dobricic   * http://www.ridgewine.com/vineyards/vineyards.tml More history of Zinfandel And here are the wineries (I don't think Deep Creek Cellars has a web site, but all the others do):   * http://www.lodivineyards.com/wines7dz.htm Seven Deadly Zins * http://www.beerwineonline.com/Main/DeepCreek.html Somebody's trip to Deep Creek Cellars   * http://www.cartlidgebrowne.com/ Cartlidge & Browne Winery   * http://www.pedroncelli.com/ Pedroncelli Winery   * http://www.montevina.com/ Montevina Winery   * http://www.dcubedcellars.com/ D-cubed Winery   * http://www.murphygoodewinery.com/ Murphy-Goode Winery An interesting aside--- If you perform a search on Google for "Seven Deadly Zins," you'll get all kinds of reports that are similar to what we did, i.e., a theme about seven great Zinfandels. Many make no mention at all of Lodi Vineyards' Seven Deadly Zins that we tasted! Regards... ...LeRoy
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		LITERATURE CCAWS Meeting Schedule Archives You can review all those clever, punny, toungue-in-cheeky announcements again and again! Sauvignon Blanc it All Its Glory! - The 2006 National Tasting Project This is the wine list for the National Tasting presented by Becky and Nan on Sep. 10, 2006 The 2005 National Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada. Still lots of pictures... Court says states can't bar out-of-state wine shipments - CNN.com "Wine lovers can't be barred from shipping home bottles purchased from out-of-state vineyards they visit in person or on the Internet, the Supreme Court said..." Read more from CNN BUT... "The State of Maryland allows neither in-state, nor out-of-state wineries to ship to Maryland consumers. Hence, the state’s ban on wine shipments is perfectly constitutional." on MarylandWine.com The case itself: GRANHOLM v. HEALD and Swedenburg et al. v. Kelly The Westminster Eagle article on Jack & Emily Westminster Eagle, Sep. 18th 2004 The Carroll County Times article on John Pardoe Carroll County Times Sep. 16, 2004 "The Buffalo-Niagara Conference Was A Hit" by Dean Wilson Bill Eisberg in the News: "Drought leaves hardly any water, but festival has plenty of wine" Carroll County Times 9-20-2002 "Don't Be Cowed by the Wine Writers" by Ham Mowbray, 1996 BACK TO TOP... Thanks to Pat V. for recommending the article  "Italy boasts noble wines to close out last century" As Published in The Carroll County Times, Wed. Jan 23, 2002. There are lots of Italian wines reviewed, including Chiantis. Some may not be available in MD. Barry B. recommended the government publication below. Barry writes: "It's a section of the Federal Register from 8 January 1996, when the BATF published its final rules on acceptable names for wine varietals sold in this country. Quite informative. I thought other folks might be interested in it, too. I'm sure the grape growers and wine makers amongst us already have read and digested it, but other people accessing the website might find, as I did, that it fills in a few gaps." "Grape Variety Names for American Wines" - From the U.S. Federal Registry, Vol. 6, No. 5. Click Here for Brief Summary (2kB) Available in two forms: PDF Electronic Version (145kB - Requires Adobe Acrobat - see below) Plain Text Version (134kB) LeRoy forwarded this link to a PDF document "The Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) and other official product identification standards" This describes the French AOC agricultural standardization method. (Requires Adobe Acrobat, available below)
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		MORE Use your browser's BACK button to return here. Wines We Cook With (from Becky Wilson's tasting at the Browns, April 15, 2007) This rtf document Includes the following recipes: Blue cheese, Port and Walnut Spread Mushroom and Gruyere Bread Pudding Artichoke and Blue Cheese Bisque Salmon with Lemon Capers and Rosemary CHICKEN BREAST WITH HONEY SAUTERNES SAUCE BEAUMES-DE-VENISE CAKE WITH GRAPES (GATEAU DE BEAUMES-DE-VENISE AUX RAISINS) Sherry Butter Nut Drops Chao Ji Song (Minced Chicken in Lettuce Cups)   The "Beautiful Blonde Blends" handout contains the following recipes: Baby Squash with Pancetta, Fennel Seed, and Roasted Tomato Stuffing Smoked Trout and Avocado Salad Asian-Inspired Shrimp Salad With Tropical Fruit Shrimp Salad with Cucumber Grilled Lobster Tails with Green Curry-Mango Dipping Sauce Recipe for Sugar Nuts (from Emily Murray) Recipe for Duffy's Spinach Salad (from Jeanne) Recipe for Warm Goat Cheese Tart with Caramelized Onions (from Becky) Recipe for Carrot and Tomato Soup Recipe for Soupe Au Pistou Recipe for Coconut Mango Cheesecake - This is so good, it may be the only cheesecake you ever make again... Dean. Recipe for Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe for Breakfast Casserole (from Emily Johnston) Recipe for Ham, Fontian, and Spinach Bread Pudding Recipe for Baked French Toast Casserole with Maple Syrup   The Epicurious Wine Lover's Companion An excellent online wine encyclopedia. A great place to get information, research and ideas for wine tastings, or just fun to read and browse. Wine Glossary & Pronunciation Guide Word, Phrase & Web Page Translator (AltaVista Babelfish) Type a word or copy and paste website URL (www.whatever...) into this utility to see it translated from the language you choose:   What's A PDF? A "PDF" is special document format created by Adobe Systems Incorportated, that is very useful on almost all types of computer systems and on the web. Documents with filenames such as "document.pdf" will appear almost exactly the same on screen and when printed on almost any computer device with the Adobe Reader installed. The Adobe Reader is widely used (there is a good chance your computer already employs it) and it is free from the Adobe Website. The link below is the one approved for just this purpose. Adobe Reader is required for reading PDF files, and is available still free at...   BACK TO TOP... Promoting appreciation of wine through education