Archive for January, 2008
The Sipping News: First look at Oxbow Wine Merchant - San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, January 31st, 2008The Sipping News: First look at Oxbow Wine MerchantSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - Jan 31, 2008Expanding their wine empire, the proprietors of San Francisco’s Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant have just opened the Oxbow Wine Merchant in the new Oxbow Public …
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Bar Stars: Carlos Yturria and Dominic Venegas
Thursday, January 31st, 2008San Francisco Gate - Yturria turned to construction, helping to build such projects as A16 and the wine bar at Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant before constructing Range, in the Mission District, “from the plumbing up.” At Range, they both found themselves working together again
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The Olympian - The Olympian
Thursday, January 31st, 2008The OlympianThe Olympian, WA - Jan 31, 200810, Olympic Wine Merchant, 101 Capitol Way N., Suite 106, Olympia. Sample a selection of heart-warming wines that are the perfect accent if you’re in the …
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Abstruse Triangle - LA City Beat
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Abstruse TriangleLA City Beat, CA - 22 minutes agoThe Countess knows she never met the Ambassador before, but she thinks that a wine merchant she meets is someone she met once before, but she isn’t sure. …
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Dir. Randall Miller. US, 2008,112mins - Screendaily.com (subscription)
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Dir. Randall Miller. US, 2008,112minsScreendaily.com (subscription), UK - 6 hours agoAs the quirky ensemble hangs on the brink of success, a snobbish British wine merchant in Paris, Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hears of the upstart …
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Bottle Shock
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Screendaily - As the quirky ensemble hangs on the brink of success, a snobbish British wine merchant in Paris, Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hears of the upstart vineyard, and an ex-pat American friend, Maurice (Richard Farina), eggs him on to visit California …
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A Befuddlement of Liquor Laws
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008New York Times - The topic comes up now because of the efforts of one online wine merchant, Wine.com, to squelch fellow merchants it suspected of breaking the laws by which it says it was abiding. In what amounted to its own sting operation, Wine.com last summer …
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SF supes got raises, now meet less often - San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008SF supes got raises, now meet less oftenSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 6 hours agoJ, a position that Peskin and others said was easy for the millionaire wine merchant and restaurateur to take. Proposed by then-Supervisor Matt Gonzalez and …
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A Befuddlement of Liquor Laws - New York Times
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008New York Times
A Befuddlement of Liquor LawsNew York Times, United States - 8 hours agoThe topic comes up now because of the efforts of one online wine merchant, Wine.com, to squelch fellow merchants it suspected of breaking the laws by which …
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Bye, Bill - The Times
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008The Times
Bye, BillThe Times, South Africa - 9 hours agoLess than a week after returning from a trip to SA, UK wine merchant Bill Baker (53) has died in his sleep. I met him almost exactly a year ago in Cape Town …
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