New tasting room born from deep vintner roots

They have been making the wine at Per Bacco Cellars in San Luis Obispo, and they have been sharing a tasting room for two years with Edna Valley's Saucelito Canyon Vineyard.

They also bought 130 acres on Orcutt Road in Edna Valley, where they plan to build their own winery and tasting room, but the progress has been slow.

"It's going forward," Ortman says, "like the world's slowest train."

"We both grew out of the Saucelito space," Lisa Ortman explains, "and since Orcutt Road wasn't happening, we thought we better find a new space."

Even though the new tasting room is small — only 700 square feet — it's enough room to showcase all their wines.

The new location, just a block and a half from Paso Robles Park, is ideal.


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A spot for fine wines

WINE Knot opened its doors with a cosy and intimate soft launch that saw a brief introduction of their wine cellar to friends and business partners of the outlet.

The new outlet is a picture of wooden touches with a warm ambience that is very similar to the oak and wooded elements of wines, making it a welcoming place for all patrons.

The establishment currently carries wine selections from the conventional wine producing countries including Australia, Chile, France, Spain, New Zealand as well as South Africa.

The soft launch was organised together with wine distributor Nam Lee Chong that prepared four different wines for the tasting session.

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Soul for the entertainment scene

The time spent waiting for a license has been used to build up the wine cellar which now offers more than 180 labels of predominantly Portuguese wine and port. Macau Beer is also served on tap and a fine selection of whiskies is available.The two floors can sit a total of 50 guests and group bookings are welcomed.The ground floor is brightly lit by the natural light the low reaching windows let through. Guests have a choice of different table sizes and shapes, matched with wooden chairs or coaches. There is no shortage of talking points on offer with the museum style hanging system full of paintings and self-taken photographs from around the world and a collection of pottery that adds colour.Downstairs a stage complete with electronic piano, drum kit and three guitars and banjos (both of which Mr Higgins plays) awaits the venue's first live act.The music menu will also be very specific.



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Organic winery focused on producing world-class sparkling wines

There is an in-ground barrel and sparkling tirage cellar, infrared reflecting roof, thick ICF (insulated concrete forms) walls and building orientation to take advantage of shading and natural light. A grand opening celebration will take place July 20. For more information, call (902) 542-8463, or visit www.lacadievineyards.ca. - Submitted .



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Wine Tasting - Please Join us - No Charge

The winery produced only 1500 cases of this wine in 2006, all with estate fruit, making this a great example of artisanal old vine Monastrell at a very reasonable price. 4 - Trapiche Vina Fausto Orellana Malbec 2005 $50From the great Trapiche Single Vineyard Malbec Project. Each year Trapiche makes dozens of single vineyard wines, each representing a specific vineyard and expressing a specific terroir. After what must be round after round of brutal tasting and hairsplitting, they choose and release the three finest Malbecs in the world. The goal of Trapiche and Daniel Pi the wine maker, is to take Malbec to it's logical extreme of quality and varietal expression. The wine more closely resembles Classified Bordeaux (after all Malbec is a Bordeaux Grape), than it does your average Malbec.


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How Often Do Doctors Act As Good Samaritans? What Help Do They

Questions include what help they might be expected to offer, particularly if they have no equipment or have had a couple of glasses of wine; and some want to know their legal position if something should go wrong after a Good Samaritan act. Fortunately the chances of a claim are extremely rare and MDU members are reassured they have worldwide insurance cover for claims arising from Good Samaritan acts. Members can also seek help and advice from the MDU for other medico-legal queries arising from Good Samaritan acts such as police interviews and coroners' inquiries."

The latest edition of the MDU's GP Registrar Update2 also dispels some of the common myths about offering assistance in an emergency and several MDU medico-legal advisers look back at some of the help they have provided as doctors in an off-duty emergency.



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Italians take it all in their stride

But on this occasion, a good bottle of red wine was chosen. According to a still elated Gerrans the day after: "The powers that be didn't want to chance the bubbly in this area." The accolades, meanwhile, continued for Gerrans, who received 70 text messages and half as many missed calls on his mobile phone within 30 minutes of his win. He woke up the next day - fortunately a rest day - to discover 200 emails in his laptop inbox.

STAGE 17 - Embrun to L'Alpe-d'Huez, 210.5km

Final of three stages in the Alps, this is a long, laborious but then fast-finishing day in the saddle for the surviving riders. Two giant climbs before the last ascent up the famed 21 switchbacks to L'Alpe-d'Huez, where some of Tour's greatest exploits have been recorded.

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