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The 8th Annual Dover Downs Hotel & Casino Wine Festival will take place November 13 & 14 2009
Dover Downs Hotel & Casino Wine Festival
Wine-making classes will be hosted by Something-
Wine, a Wilmington-based wine-making supply business.
SomethingWine sells equipment, wine juice kits
and fresh varietal grapes and juice twice a year, imported
in May from Chile and trucked in September through
October from California. SomethingWine offers advice
for the beginner as well as the advanced.
This year, its second at the festival, SomethingWine
will focus on fermentation through completion to bottling.
The class is an open forum during which audience
participation is encouraged through a question and answer
format. During each class, a variety of homemade
white, red and sweet wines will be available to sample.
Visit SomethingWine at www.somethingwine.com,
and don’t miss the cultural event of 2009, hosted by
vintner Robert Torres. |
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Celebrating Italian heritage for 2009 |
This year |
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| SomethingWine will host a winemaking demo and offer up free samples of their homemade wines for guests, this years turnout is expected to over 2000. Enjoy the fun the food and of coarse the wine. |
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Celebrity Wine Events |
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Rob and Lorraine (above L to R) taken at Kreston Wine & Spirits, Tuesday June 10th, 2008
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Lorraine Bracco made a special appearance at Kreston's Wine & Spirits here in Wilmington, DE on Tuesday June 10th 2008 to showcase her line of 9 Italian wines. Delaware now joins in the group of seven states to carry Bracco wine. The line was long inside Kreston's small store but the wait was worth it. Lorraine is a special person, down to earth and very easy to just say hello. We purchased two bottles, her Pinot Grigio and the top shelf Amarone. Rob & Cindy proprietors of SomethingWine, got separate turns to meet and get autographs.
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Lorraine happily signed the two bottles of wine we were purchasing. Cindy also brought her copy of Lorraine's book "On the Couch" which she signed as well. |
Movie & Television Star (noted for her role in the HBO series The Sopranos) splashes into the world of winemakers. |
Women in Wine |
Lorraine and Cindy (below L to R) photo taken on Friday October 9th 2007 |
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Lorraine Bracco, actress and proprietor of Bracco Wines, will pour four Italian wines for tasting and sign bottles for customers from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 19, 2007 at the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Premium Collection Wine & Spirits store, 1218 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. If you are ever luck enough to meet Lorraine you wont be disappointed, she is sincere, down to earth, very attractive and charismatic. |
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Wine & Health in the News
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From the sixth international Wine and Heart Health Symposium comes even better news than what was expected about the results of wine drinking and our health. After extensive analysis of research on the subject and internal patients, doctors at Kaiser Permanente have concluded through their studies, that moderate consumption of wine can reduce the cause and risks of death from coronary and vascular disease, it was also found to reduce the risk for ischemic strokes, diabetes and gallstones as well.An extensive unpublished recent and carefully conducted large-scale study, done in Nancy, France, found further evidence to confirm the positive findings. Other studies and research demonstrates how low to moderate use of wine introduced into our diet can suppress E-Coli Bacteria, and may reduce the incidence of gastric and colorectal cancer. |
| Consumption of wine may even improve cognitive functions as you age. The traditional advice was to consume less as you become older. Doctors that conducted these studies agree that the older views are no longer valid at all. Although the incidence of breast cancer seems to rise slightly with moderate drinking, since many more women die from heart disease (1 out of 2) than breast cancer (1 out of 25), the results in numbers typically favor wine consumption. Women and older people actually benefit more proportionately from wine than even younger men.
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| Perhaps the most comforting of all news is that moderate drinking may be more than a typical glass or 2 per day as previously suggested. The benefits appear to increase with 3 to 5 glasses of wine a day for an average man. Another interesting note is the optimum “Body Mass Index” which measures the appropriate weight suggests being about 26, a classification that indicates a slight overweight ratio according to government charts. Moderate wine drinking may in fact help reduce obesity. Contrary to earlier suggested research Beer, Spirits, and Unfermented Grape Juice do not provide as much protection as wine. |
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