Wine from next door

The News Review:

- Wine from next door
- Matthews empire reels as MPs go on the offensive
- Arsenal Takes Aim At America
- Maldives bomb couple win air ambulance fight
- Have A Ball-Editorial-Opinion-The Times of India
- Inland News | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland…

Wine from next door
Hindu – Feb 10, 2007
And there just isn’t a large enough quality margin for us to benchmark ourselves against any other wine,” she says, adding that instead Naka is aiming at more of an international absolute level. Indeed, says Sowmya, the market has so much room for growth that Naka Wines is also planning to import a number of wines from other countries, starting with Sol de Chile, a top Chilean wine. Meanwhile, Naka’s home grown wines are set to hit the market in another month or so, with the company planning a range of educational and awareness building efforts around the launch. “Many consumers are still very unsure about their wines. We are planning to carry out an educative campaign on everything connected with a wine, such as how to order, how to store a wine, how to pick a wine based on the kind of food one is eating, what glasses to drink a wine in and so on. ”

If an Indian wine, with a wonderful home grown taste is what your looking for, watch out for this one. RAKESH MEHAR

Printer friendly… “Many consumers are still very unsure about their wines. We are planning to carry out an educative campaign on everything connected with a wine, such as how to order, how to store a wine, how to pick a wine based on the kind of food one is eating, what glasses to drink a wine in and so on. ”

If an Indian wine, with a wonderful home grown taste is what your looking for, watch out for this one. RAKESH MEHAR

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Matthews empire reels as MPs go on the offensive
Guardian Unlimited – Feb 10, 2007
“The untruths that the company have told the public and the government call into question everything else it says,” she said. The company was also accused of hiding the fact that it imports large numbers of poultry and legally labels them British. Last week it said all Bernard Matthews’ birds were “home grown”. It emerged that the company was legally importing meat from Latin America and also possibly Turkey, where an outbreak of avian flu was announced yesterday. One source in the Suffolk factory said: “They are definitely coming in from Brazil. “There was also increasing disquiet in East Anglia that the turkey tycoon, who employs 5,000 people and whose personal wealth is thought to be more than £300m, has still not visited the farm. An employee from a farm outside Norwich said: “We have been told nothing, except not to talk to anyone about what is going on.

Arsenal Takes Aim At America
Forbes – Feb 10, 2007
It uses the latter as a nursery club for promising players, particularly from Africa; Arsenal also runs a player development center in Ivory Coast. Defender Emmanuel Eboue, one of Arsenal’s young stars, came to the club via that route. Wenger also says he believes U. soccer needs to produce home-grown stars if the sport is to develop there. “At the moment America is an untapped market,” he says. “It will remain [that way] as long as they don’t produce a massive player.

Maldives bomb couple win air ambulance fight
Telegraph.co.uk – Feb 10, 2007
They were on the last day of their honeymoon and had already packed their bags and checked out of their hotel when they were caught in the blast. Twelve tourists in total were injured in the attack – the first of its kind on the islands. The bombing is being widely linked to home-grown Islamist elements. Around 60,000 British tourists travel to the Maldives each year. Many of them are honeymooners and travel agents are now waiting to see if any holidaymakers decide to cancel planned trips as a result of the attack. The Maldivian government moved swiftly to allay fears that a similar attack could be launched against tourists in one of the 87 islands which offer a “Robin Crusoe” experience to holidaymakers. Resort operators contacted by The Daily Telegraph last night said holidaymakers had been briefed on the situation and decided to continue their stays.

Have A Ball-Editorial-Opinion-The Times of India
Times of India – Feb 10, 2007
Don’t forget the ‘feel good
factor’: Every time we celebrate something, we give to ourselves the gift of
life. The ripple effects of festivals spread far and wide, boosting tourism,
adding vigour to trade and commerce and creating an ambience of universal
interdependence and cooperation. We’re discovering each other
like never before, and after a while, it really doesn’t matter if a festival is
traditional or newborn, commercial or spiritual, less-known or well-established,
home-grown or imported. The
trick is to go with the flow, so as not to get left out of the global ball the
world is intent on having.

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Press-Enterprise – Press-Enterprise (subscription) – Feb 10, 2007
DeJong said he couldn’t wait to leave the dairy when he was a young buck with big ideas. But he eventually gravitated back, buying the place from his parents and making it a home for his growing family. In the process, the dairy became a familiar touchstone for generations of shoppers who today trek from as far away as San Juan Capistrano to corral gallons of the home-grown beverages. DeJong can be seen milking cows, processing products or working the store’s cash register. One minute he’s grumbling about a regional animal shelter planned nearby and the next he’s basking in customer kudos over the rich taste and high fat content of his milk. DeJong, who knows many of his customers by face if not by name, said one woman who has 13 children buys 20 gallons of milk from him every four days. "His homogenized milk tastes like ice cream to me," said Marla Fisher, a San Juan Capistrano resident who on a typical visit to the store buys two gallons of regular milk and one gallon of chocolate milk.

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