Carroll

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Links,
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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

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Chianti Sites

...from Dean Wilson...


www.antinori.it


An Introduction to the Wines of Chianti

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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.

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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)

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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/

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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

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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.

 

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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

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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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seen at www.gourmetsleuth.com

Gourmet Sleuth

"The Gourmet Food and Cooking Resource"

From Pennee's "Picnic Food and Wine Pairing"

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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

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Thanks to Pat V. for recommending the article


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.


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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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:

 

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Adobe Reader is required for reading PDF files, and is available still free at...

 

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