What if the Niagara Frontier caught on fire????

French winemakers protest to demand government aid….but "what if" this also happened on the Niagara Frontier?

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MONTPELLIER, France (AP) — Winemakers in southern France have burned two police cars and vandalized supermarkets during protests to demand government aid.

Vintners in France's Languedoc-Roussillon region have been protesting plummeting prices for their regional wines as well as rising fuel costs.

Thousands of wine growers demonstrated in Montpellier to demand government emergency measures and financial support as wine prices continue to fall. Demonstrators were tear gassed by police during clashes in Montpellier, southern France. Protesters broke windows at the courthouse in the city of Montpellier. In nearby Montagnac, protesters wielding baseball bats chased police from their vehicles and set the cars on fire. Protesters also damaged four bank buildings.

At three regional supermarkets they sacked the wine aisles. Two police were slightly injured in the protests Wednesday and early Thursday.

Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

What if?...are the situations similar?

WELLAND, Ontario (CP) — Winemakers in southern Ontario have burned two police cars and vandalized LCBO liquor stores during protests to demand government aid.

Vintners in Ontario's Niagara region have been protesting plummeting prices for their regional grapes and wines as well as rising fuel costs.

Hundreds of wine and grape growers demonstrated in Welland to demand government emergency measures and financial support as local wine prices continue to fall. Demonstrators were tear gassed by police during clashes in both St. Catharines and Welland.

Protesters broke windows at the courthouse in the city of Welland. In nearby Grimsby, protesters wielding baseball bats chased police from their vehicles and set the cars on fire. Protesters also damaged four bank buildings.

At three LCBO stores they sacked the wine aisles. Two police were slightly injured in the protests Wednesday and early Thursday.

More as the story develops…

 

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Now Drink White Wine for Health (courtesy of Sheila Swerling-Puritt)

Now Drink White Wine for Health

Researchers at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel have developed a white wine fortified with anti-ageing polyphenols found in red wines but with the additional benefit of avoiding headaches that red wines can cause for some people.

Scientists have discovered that they could boost white wine polyphenols six times, by incubating squeezed grapes in the presence of alcohol for 18 hours, before removing their skins. These polyphenols are released by red wine during the process of maceration when the skins containing these chemicals come in contact with the juice to be fermented.

The processed white wine tastes like a white but contains the polyphenols in addition.
Comments Professor Michael Aviram, a researcher at the Faculty of Medicine at Technion, "There has been an incredible response from those that have heard about the research, with many thinking of taking up drinking white wine more seriously."

Binyamina, an Israeli wine producer has begun using the recipe to manufacture the new healthier white wine, which is expected to go on sale in the US by the end of this year.

The news item reported in many online journals may soon make one raise a glass of white wine and say, 'L'chaim! L'chaim! To life!'

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Vieilles Vignes

WINE WRITERS ASSOCATION: VIEILLES VIGNES  

 

 In attempt to draw in new members, The Wine Writer's Association has decided to recognize the geezer element by creating a new category of wine writers – those folks who have been writing about wine for at least 35 years. Membership is open to any writer who has done paid writing about wine since at least 1973 (and rolling forward each year, so that in 2009 the beginning date must be 1974, etc.) -- and is still writing. This acclaim grants to the members the right to add VV after their name: Vieilles Vignes. The annual membership fee has been established as equivalent to one's first paid invoice for wine writing, way back in the time when….

 

Topics to be discussed at upcoming meetings include health insurance, rocker catalogues, pension plans, nutritional benefits of alcohol, time sharing, how to open the new twist tops, offshore properties, the wandering aspects of wine, assisted-living wine junkets, and newer grape varieties such as the Pinot More..

 

Wine geezers unite!

 

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Food Generator

Still hungry? Try these new foods, just recently added to various locavore menus...

 

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TOP TWENTY CLASSIC WINE LIES (sourced through the Internet)

TOP TWENTY CLASSIC WINE LIES
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From the grower, "All our slopes face south"
"Our harvest is in the hands of the gods"
"We're rediscovering local grape varieties"
"We buy all our barrels from first-growths"

From the winery, "Our wines are like children -- some take longer than
others to develop"
"It is the best vintage this decade"
"Our winmaker thinks this wine is really interesting"
"I am an artist. I paint with colours when I make my
wine"
"Chaptalize? Never!"
"We picked before the rain, unlike our neighbours"
"All the wine is stored in oak barrels. We never use
oak chips"

From the merchant, "Buy this wine. It's expensive but it won't give you a
hangover"
"This wine was made to go with food"
"There is no such thing as a bad vintage
nowadays"

From the sommelier, "A gentleman of your standing would require a wine of
quality"
"Fine food requires fine wine,
regardless of the price"
"The mustiness, as you prefer to call
it, is a hallmark of great Bordeaux"

From the consumer, "I don't know much about wine but I do know what I like"
"I'm not a wine snob, I've just got
expensive tastes"

From the wine critic, "I always spit when tasting".....

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Wine uncorks challenge to beer as alcohol drink of choice: StatsCan

Last Updated: Monday, June 9, 2008 | 12:25 PM ET CBC News

Beer continues to be Canada's top alcoholic drink, though a growing number of consumers are favouring wine, according to a Statistics Canada report released Monday.

Sales of alcoholic beverages
Region	Beer ($ thousands)	Wine ($ thousands)
Canada	8,422,697	5,045,594
N.L.	179,862	37,215
P.E.I.	35,010	11,482
Nova Scotia	272,339	97,208
New Brunswick	220,119	62,264
Quebec	2,299,385	1,729,218
Ontario	2,899,955	1,719,389
Manitoba	244,022	104,471
Saskatchewan	237,093	56,374
Alberta	881,852	434,229
British Columbia	1,116,129	781,737
Yukon	14,999	5,753
Nunavut	3,324	261
Northwest Territories	18,610	5,994

In 2007, beer accounted for 47 per cent of alcohol sales, down from 52 per cent in 1997. Wine sales comprised 28 per cent of the market, up from 21 per cent in 1997, the federal agency said. More at:

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/06/09/alcohol-statscan.html?ref=rss

Student at Le Cordon Bleu threatens suicide - decanter.com

Let me stress the stress...

Student at Le Cordon Bleu threatens suicide
June 5, 2008

Erica Loi

A Cordon Bleu cookery student wielding a knife threatened to commit suicide
yesterday when he discovered he couldn't retake his exams.

The incident happened at the renowned Cordon Bleu cookery school in
Marylebone Lane in London at around 5pm.

The 28-year-old man French-Algerian man failed his exam on Tuesday and
returned to the school on Wednesday demanding to retake it.

More at http://www.decanter.com/news/257945.html?aff=rss

Wine industry wonder about effect of new labelling rules (by Monioque Beech, St Catharines Standard)

Wine industry wonder about effect of new labelling rules (my Monique Beech,
St Catharines Standard)

New federal food labelling guidelines requiring producers to remove foreign
ingredients from "made in Canada" products should not affect the country's
wine industry, the president of the Canadian Vintners Association says.

Meanwhile, the Grape Growers of Ontario says the new guidelines could offer
some clarity for consumers who find current Canadian wine labels confusing.

Last week during a stop in Beamsville, Prime Minister Stephen Harper
announced rules that would require 'product of Canada' goods to contain all
or virtually all domestic content.
Currently, food companies are allowed to call a product "made in Canada" if
51 per cent of the production costs were incurred here and the final
transformation of the product was in Canada.

More at http://stcatharinesstandard.ca/PrintArticle.aspx?e=1044047

- with files from Canadian Press

Copyright © 2008 St. Catharines Standard

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