Decanter - French scientists have discovered the secret to keeping the fizz in a glass of Champagne: pour it like a beer.

A new study reports the best way to pour Champagne is in a 'beer-like way' with the glass held at an angle.

It reveals the sparkling wine remains bubbly longer when poured in this way rather than pouring straight into the glass and waiting for the mousse to settle before topping up.

However, Tom Stevenson, chairman of the Decanter World Wine Awards' Champagne panel, said: 'Pouring Champagne like a lager is a seen as a really naff way to serve it. You would not see a sommelier doing it in a million years.'  Read more...

USA Today - When the 2010 Oregon State Fair opens on Aug. 27, there won't be an amateur beer-brewers competition for the first time in 22 years.

An overlooked, 80-year-old statute that says Oregon home-brewed beer can't leave the home has forced fair organizers to cancel the competition, which had 335 entrants last year, says Oregon Liquor Control Commission spokeswoman Christie Scott.

Brewers were reminded of the statute after the Oregon Department of Justice clarified the law for a pub seeking to serve home brew at an event, Scott says. "As long as this is the law, we have to enforce it," she says, adding that the commission hopes to see the statute changed in time for the 2011 fair. Read more...

Los Angeles Times - Like most U.S. business sectors, the wine business has been transformed by e-commerce. Even if restrictions on interstate shipping have limited that commerce to 38 states, the Internet as a wine marketplace is robust by any measure.

In the last four years, a single website, the search engine wine-searcher.com, has done more to transform that commercial landscape than any other, affecting every facet of the way the wine business is conducted, certainly in this country and increasingly on a global scale. For better or worse, it has leveled the playing field on getting, buying, pricing and selling wine. If you're a wine lover and you're not using this tool, it's time to start. And if you sell wine, on any level, you ignore it at your peril.

Wine-searcher.com is the brainchild of Martin Brown  Read more...

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Josh Klapper - La Fenetre Wines, Santa Maria, CA Twitter http://www.lafenetrewines.com/

Alex Guarachi - TGIC Importers, Woodland Hills, CA http://www.tgicimporters.com/, Guarachi Family Wines http://www.guarachifamilywines.com/

Kris Curran & Bruno Dalfonso - Dalfonso-Curran Wines, Lompoc, CA http://www.dalfonso-curranwines.com/

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Alex Guarachi - TGIC Importers, Woodland Hills, CA http://www.tgicimporters.com/, Guarachi Family Wines http://www.guarachifamilywines.com/
(tasted: GUARACHI CABERNET SAUVIGNON (92-points Wine Spectator), GUARACHI PINOT (94-points Wine Spectator), GUARACHI FAMILY WINES CHARDONNAY)

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Beer enthusiasts Richard Green, Israel Arrieta & Alex Macy - Harvest Beer Festival http://harvestbeerfest.com/
(tasted: Westvleteren 12 , The Abyss, Boon Oude Gueuze, Russian River Supplication)

Derek Buono - Beer Magazine Twitter http://www.thebeermag.com/

Ben Cook and Kevin Wright - Hangar 24 Brewery, Redlands, CA Twitter http://www.hangar24brewery.com/

Natalie - The Liquid Muse Twitter http://www.theliquidmuse.com/

NY Daily News - When the economy is in the tank, do more Americans drown their sorrows in alcohol?

Well, times are tough, and the number of U.S. adults drinking booze is at a 25-year high, according to a new Gallup poll.

Sixty-seven percent of Americans say they drink, the poll reports, the highest percentage since 1985.

But Gallup, which has been keeping track of U.S. drinking habits for the last 71 years, reports that while the numbers move up and down slightly each year, the statistics on American drinking are surprisingly steady.

When Gallup first started keeping track  Read more...

Los Angeles Times - With little public notice, distributors of alcoholic beverages are pressing for a federal law that would allow states to block interstate sales of wine and beer to their residents — a result that could limit consumer choices, raise prices and hurt hundreds of small vintners and microbrewers.

A bill pending in the House would put the authority to regulate alcohol more squarely in the hands of the states and would require those challenging the regulations to prove the rules violate federal law or the Constitution.

And it would supersede a number of recent court rulings that have struck down limits on interstate sales of alcoholic beverages.

"It's the cumulative effect of all these lawsuits  Read more...

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David Walker - Firestone Walker Brewing Company, Paso Robles, CA Twitter http://www.firestonewalker.com/

Jonathan Mitchell - The Palm Restaurant, West Hollywood, CA Twitter Facebook http://www.thepalm.com/

Michael Brughelli - Kenneth Volk Vineyards, Santa Maria, CA http://www.volkwines.com/

(The Chardonnay Symposium - Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Santa Maria, CA http://thechardonnaysymposium.com/)

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Amelia & Dalia Ceja - Ceja Vineyards, Napa, CA Twitter Facebook http://www.cejavineyards.com/

Dennis Cakebread - Cakebread Cellars, Rutherford, CA http://www.cakebread.com/

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Dave Cruz - Ad Hoc, Yountville, CA  Twitter http://www.adhocrestaurant.com/

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Jenna Fagnan - Tequila Avion http://aviontequila.com/

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John Schwartz & Gregg Goldman - Sinatra Family Estates, Napa, CA http://www.sinatrafamilyestates.com/

Natalie Bovis - The Liquid Muse http://www.theliquidmuse.com/