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Hungarian Goulahahahahahahash

Recipe submitted by Liz Vezer of Vezer Family Vineyard

Visit picturesque Suisun Valley, Napa Valley's neighbor by 6 miles! Cooking Class, Dinner & Tasting with Liz for a special occasion reservation at the Vezer Family Estate ... add an escorted ATV Vineyard tour for the perfect day. Open year-round No Appointment for Mankas Corner or Blue Victorian Tasting Rooms. No Fee Wine Club.

Ingredients:


•1 Bottle Vezer Family Vineyard 2006 Zinfandel - I personally use 1/2 to drink while cooking & 1/2 to cook in the recipe
•4-5lbs lean stew meat - cut into chunks so it absorbs the wine better
•1 large onion chopped fine
•10-12 cloves garlic minced
•3 lbs. Potatoes
•2 lbs Carrots
•10-12 TBS Hungarian Paprika
•3 large containers of beef stock
•1/4-1/2Cup Olive Oil (you decide how 'virginal')
•2-3 Turkish Bay leaves
•2 TBS Sea Salt
Serves approximately 1 tribe or 8 people. Continue reading Hungarian Goulahahahahahahash

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2011 HARVEST UPDATE: Sonoma County Winemakers Address Fall Rains

October 11, 2011 – Santa Rosa, CA: Sonoma County Vintners, the premier marketing organization for Sonoma County’s wine and wineries, will be issuing a series of monthly updates on the 2011 harvest season from the perspectives of wineries in each of Sonoma County’s largest regions.

After last week’s rains, we wanted to check with winemakers and their vineyard teams to get a sense of how and if their grapes were impacted.

In the Sonoma Valley, Chateau St. Jean winemaker Margo Van Staaveren felt confident that the Bordeaux red varietal grapes would easily weather the moderately heavy rains, she had concerns for the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.

To minimize losses and maintain quality, Van Staaveren’s team “worked all weekend long to bring in those vineyards particularly susceptible.”

In the Russian River Valley, Rodney Strong Vineyards Director of Winegrowing Douglas McIlroy shared the following report:

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Vetrazzo - a Special Touch

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Vetrazzo begins with you. When you dispose of your glass bottles into your curbside recycling bin, it ends up at a facility where it is processed by color and glass type.

Once sorted, it's crushed and packaged for companies like Vetrazzo to purchase for reuse. We look for interesting colors and also source from post-industrial glass sources and demolition sites to get an array of options for making slabs.

When then glass arrives to our plant, it's further crushed depending on the slab being made, and mixed with cement, water, and other proprietary ingredients.

Glass comprises 85% of the total product content, so you can expect an extremely durable and gorgeous surface thanks to the big pieces of glass that appear in many of our surfaces. Once a slab color is mixed, it's poured into a pan and baked (much like making a cake). After the cooking process, the slab undergoes polishing and quality assurance procedures to ensure that every slab leaving our plant meets our quality control requirements.

Right now, it takes almost a month for one slab to be produced. Unlike other surfacing materials, our product receives a lot of human attention from our production team.

From the woman who expertly applies the patina to our patina'd surfaces to the man who carefully monitors each slab's polish, Vetrazzo gets a special touch. You can be assured when you buy Vetrazzo that you are getting a product that many people are passionate about, especially the people who make it.

Zooming in on a dream of sunshine, grapes and wine

From Libby: This is pretty awesome, thank you Google Earth! You should still call me though-I promise I won't make you wait!

You’re thousands of miles and two years from home when your decades-long dream of a creating a vineyard suddenly beckons. You can: 1. Wait; 2. Call a realtor and wait; or 3. Try out a beta-version of a new program called Google Earth and get that dream going yourself. Living in Ireland in 2005, Oregon residents Scott Elder and Stephanie LaMonica went for it. Relying on Google Earth, they found their perfect family farmland -- without ever setting foot on it. In 2006, they planted their vineyard just outside The Dalles, Oregon, a place they never even knew existed.


With the dream of sunshine, grapes and wine pushing him on throughout a dark, blustery Irish winter, Scott, a scientist by education but Kansas farm kid at heart, got to work, poring over the Oregon landscape from thousands of miles away. Like a modern-day explorer, he was looking for the undiscovered gem, a hillside that would grow the distinct wines he had envisioned from his time spent in France years earlier, under the tutelage of noted French wine merchant, Jean-Yves Belin.

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