French Wine

France is said to be one of the oldest wine-producing regions of Europe. Most of the wines produced in France will have value in the world. Bordeaux wine, Burgundy wine and Champagne are the world's best-known and valuable wines.

The Regions in the south were licensed by the Roman Empire to produce high quality wines. St. Martin of Tours (316-397) was actively engaged in both spreading Christianity and planting vineyards. During the middle Ages, monks maintained vineyards and more importantly, they come up with winemaking knowledge and skills during that turbulent period.

Despite some exports from Bordeaux, until about 1850 most of the wine consumed in France was local. People in Paris drank wine from the local vineyards, people in Bordeaux drank Bordeaux, and those in Burgundy drank Burgundy, and continue throughout the country.

Italian Wine

Italy is one of the oldest wine regions in the world, the Etruscans and Greek settlers produced wine in the country long back before the Romans started developing their own vineyards in the second century BC. The Roman wine making was prolific and well-organized, pioneering large-scale production and storage techniques like barrel-making and bottling. Two thousand years later, Italy remains one of the world's foremost producers, responsible for approximately one-fifth of world wine production in 2005.

Wine is one of the popular drink in Italy. Most of the Italians drink it with every meal and in-between offer it to guests as soon as they arrive. Grapes are grown in almost every part of Italy with more than 1 million vineyards. under cultivation. Most of the winemaking in Italy is done in modern wineries, but villagers, making wine for their own use, sometimes tread the grapes with their bare feet until the juice is squeezed out. They believe this ancient method still makes to obtain the best wine.

Initiating Changes in Liquor Licence Act

The McGuinty government today took the first step toward allowing Ontarians to bring a bottle of wine to a licensed restaurant by introducing changes to the Liquor Licence Act."Our proposals would provide both consumers and licensed restaurants with exciting new choices," said Consumer and Business Services Minister Jim Watson. "Bringing your own bottle of wine to a licensed restaurant signals that positive change is happening here in Ontario."
This bill paves the way for Ontarians to bring a bottle of wine to a licensed restaurant. At the same time, the government is planning to allow Ontarians to take home an unfinished bottle of wine that they brought with them or ordered as part of their meal in a participating restaurant. Requirements would be in place to ensure that the bottle be properly resealed before a patron could bring it home.
"These changes are progressive and would enable the industry to better serve its diverse customer base," said Rod Seiling, President of the Greater Toronto Hotel Association.
Participation by licensed restaurants would be voluntary.
Participating licensees would be allowed to determine and charge a corkage fee for providing the Bring Your Own Wine service.
"I´m all for allowing customers the option to bring their own wine into our restaurant for a corkage fee," added Steve Beckta, sommelier-owner of Ottawa´s Beckta Dining and Wine. "The practice allows people to dine out more often and with greater flexibility. Having worked as a sommelier and restaurant manager in New York, I know first-hand that this can be beneficial to both guests and restaurants alike. That is why I am a firm supporter of this initiative."
The Ministry of Consumer and Business Services is also proposing to increase public safety by:allowing the Registrar of Alcohol and Gaming to immediately suspend a liquor licence in the public interest, as in situations where there is a threat to public safety; doubling the minimum fines for offences related to liquor and underage persons. The minimum fine for a licensee would increase from $500 to $1,000, and for a non-licensee from $100 to $200; and creating new offences for failing to leave a premise when required to by a police officer, or for returning to a premise the same day after being asked to leave by a police officer."These liquor licence reforms balanced with strengthened enforcement would represent a coming of age for Ontario," said Watson. "By giving consumers and restaurateurs more choice, and by enacting measures to increase public safety, we are building a strong, safe and prosperous Ontario with a quality of life that is second to none."

Sonoma Valley Tours

Sonoma Valley Tours are very exclusive because it is a home of five distinct wine regions: Los Carneros District, Sonoma Valley, Russian River Valley, and Dry Creek Valley along with Alexander Valley. A person can spend a day by Sonoma Tours exploring each region and still have plenty of other reasons to come back. The best reason to make up a Sonoma Valley Tours could be its best winery, the best winery in California is situated only a few minutes away from Historic Sonoma Square in downtown Sonoma Valley, and the leading producer of champagne in U.S. could be found about an hour along with the beautiful Russian River.

Sonoma Valley is a federally chosen wine appellation region that means the climate, soils, and topography of the Sonoma Valley produce grapes of an idiosyncratic and extraordinary character. Sonoma tours are best because it is ranked as one of the top wine producing regions in world; Sonoma Valley possesses more than thirty high-quality wineries and with some of the oldest vineyards as well with wineries in state, it known as the birthplace of California wine-making.