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...Texas St. 57, Sonoma...
Catch a first-run after buying your parents a new set of crockery at Williams--Sonoma, while buying yourself the latest foreign magazine or after a good session of people--watching...
Grape growers in Northern California have not one but two of these hungry bugs to contend with. About 30,000 acres in Napa and Sonoma counties, site of the state's most prestigious vineyards, will eventually have to be replanted because of infestation by minute root lice called phylloxera. Now many of those same vineyards, as well as others in Lake and Mendocino counties, are battling even more dangerous pests: tiny insects called "sharpshooters," which spread a bacterium that causes Pierce's disease...
Although shipments of American wines abroad reached record highs in 1993, the industry is coping with stagnant sales in the intensely competitive domestic market. Sonoma County alone has more than 135 wineries, and many producers of premium brands find it harder than ever to get space on crowded shelves. In April the Safeway supermarket chain decided to drop 100 of the 1,000 or so labels it had previously carried in stores across the country...
...organized according to American Viticultural Areas (AVAS), the U.S. government's muddled system of classifying the nation's wine-growing regions. Halliday, who is Australia's leading wine critic, writes with considerable zip and has a fine eye for the offbeat. Profiling the imaginative "Gunny-Bunny" team from Sonoma County's Gundlach Bundschu winery, for example, he notes that they once donned masks, waved toy guns and hijacked the famed Napa Valley Wine Train, forcing its startled passengers to sample Gundlach Bundschu wines...