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Wiggins, who chairs the Senate Select Committee on California’s Wine Industry, represents several of the state’s premium wine producing regions.
“Over the past several years there has been a patchwork of legislation allowing various nonprofit organizations to participate with winemakers at their charity events,” said Wiggins. “SB 157 will end the confusion and provide a common and comprehensive list of nonprofit organizations that will be able to partner with winemakers at charity events.”
SB 157 allows eleven categories of nonprofits to participate in the wines sales permit statute and events where winemakers can donate and pour wine, expanding the numbers of nonprofits able to partner with wine producers to provide attractive events for consumers.
According to Wiggins, the nonprofits “can derive more income for important activities that benefit local groups and individuals, while wine producers also gain another brand-building opportunity and the potential to sell some wine in collaboration with a worthwhile cause.”
Under existing law, a person issued a winegrower’s license is authorized to conduct wine tastings of wine produced or bottled by, or produced and packaged for, the licensee, either on or off the winegrower’s premises.
Existing law also provides that wine may not be sold or orders solicited, when a wine tasting is held off the winegrower’s premises at an event sponsored by a private nonprofit organization, although winegrowers are permitted to accept orders for the sale of wine when sales transactions are completed at the winegrowers’ premises.
Current law authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to issue a wine sales event permit to allow a licensed winegrower to sell bottled wine (produced by the winegrower) at festivals, county fairs, civic/cultural celebrations or similar events held by organizations operated for nonprofit purposes.
Existing law provides that each permit shall be valid for a maximum of five consecutive days at that particular event and limits sponsorship of such events to certain nonprofit organizations defined in the Revenue and Taxation Code.
The measure will apply to the following nonprofit organizations described in the Revenue and Taxation Code as follows: Section 23701a (agricultural, horticulture or labor groups); 23701b (fraternal orders); 23701d (public safety, literary or educational groups, amateur sports, or humanitarian corporations); 23701e (chambers of commerce, or real estate boards); 23701f (civic leagues); 23701g (social organizations); 23701i (voluntary employees’ beneficiary associations); 23701k (religious corporations); 23701l (domestic fraternal societies); 23701r (political organizations); and, 23701w (veteran’s groups).
Last September, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed SB 108, a Wiggins bill to expand the list of non-profit organizations allowed to host wine tastings and wine orders at their charitable events to include civic leagues, social organizations and voluntary employees’ beneficiary associations.
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The Langtry 2006 Genevieve Chardonnay was produced from the winery’s 10-acre Genevieve Vineyard on the Guenoc Valley floor, where very cool nights generate mature fruit with excellent acidity.
The wine was partially fermented in French oak barrels, and a portion underwent malolactic fermentation for additional complexity and richness. The wine has abundant floral, honeysuckle and pineapple characteristics.
The history of the winery dates back to 1854 when winegrapes were first planted in the Guenoc Valley. Victorian actress Lillie Langtry owned the property from 1888 to 1906.
Today, the property is owned by Hawaii-based Malulani Investments. Langtry Estate and Vineyards has extensive vineyard holdings in Lake County and is the oldest and largest winegrower in the region. The picturesque estate consists of 21,349 acres and straddles Lake and Napa counties. Vineyards are limited to 449 prime acres. Guenoc wines are distributed nationally.
Additional information on the winery is available at www.langtryestate.com or by calling 707-987-2385.
Langtry Estate and Vineyards is located at 21000 Butts Canyon Road, Middletown.
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In January, Althea Garner of Fountain Valley donated a Ryze Business Network to the town. The online network is called "Project-Middletown." It is free for anyone to join at http://middletownca-network.ryze.com.
Project-Middletown is a wondeful online resource. People from around the world, as well as folks in Middletown, use it. What do they use it for? Sharing information and solving problems. Here the transmission of email messages can be done without sharing actual email addresses. Messages can also be easily maintained online under a single thread identifying the topic being discussed. Using the network is easy, efficient and fast.
But, that is not all. Every Saturday Project-Middletown promotes business advertising four different ways - plain text, HTML (pictures), audio link (online radio spot) and video link (online TV spot). All FREE!
In September, local residents got an extra-special treat. It happened at the Middletown Area Business Association (MABA) mixer at the Middletown High School's Multi-Use Room. The three special guests for the monthly business mixer each gave an amazing slide show presentation.
Kevin Comora, president of Vizicast Multimedia, came up from Cotati and gave a presentation on digital signage. This form of advertising is something the local town hall has been interested in for some time. Comora actually showcased his multimedia magic using three well-known local businesses – Langtry Estates, Sylvie's and Ferguson Cutlery. You can still see it by visiting www.sftv.com and clicking the link, "Middletown, USA." Just be sure to download the "powered by Scala plug-in," first.
Joel Moss, supervisory special agent for the FBI, was next. Moss had come up from San Francisco to draw attention to Infragard. This is a special program designed to improve and extend information sharing between private industry and the government, particularly the FBI, when it comes to matters of national security. Anyone can join Infragard, provided a preliminary background check is passed. For more information about Infragard, visit www.infragard.net.
John Schuman, senior worldwide evangelist for Adobe Systems, gave the final presentation. His presentation featured Dreamweaver, the most famous Web design program in the world.
It is interesting to note that Schuman made a very special effort to be at this mixer. Earlier that day he flew from Las Angeles to Sacramento. From Sacramento, he rented a car and drove the two-hour jaunt to Middletown just to be involved in the MABA Mixer. Now, that's passion!
For "Christmas in Middletown," which took place Dec. 1, Brian Jacquet of Sling Media drove up from up from Walnut Creek to introduce the locals here to the wonders of "placeshifting." What does that mean? It means you can now take your home TV signal with you wherever you travel via a mobile wireless device (like a cell phone, laptop or PDA). All you really need is a Slingbox by Sling Media hooked up to your cable box at home.
Believe it or not, placeshifting via a mobile device even works at 25,000 feet while traveling in an airplane. For more about the Slingbox, visit www.slingmedia.com.
Following "Christmas in Middletown," a special request went out in this very publication for the sharing of Christmas wishes for the town. Thanks to Orb Networks of Emeryville, holiday greetings for Middletown from around the world can be heard on the "Merry Xmas Middletown" Channel. Just visit http://public.orb.com/lamarjmorgan.
What's on tap technology-wise for Middletown and the surrounding area in 2008?
Look for Crave Coffee House to open up a new location, this time in the Hardester Shopping Center in Hidden Valley Lake. Like the Crave Coffee House in Middletown, the new location will also be a WiFi hot spot.
Speaking of Wifi, the WiFi Co. of Colorado will be introducing free WiFi hot spots with splash page advertising to Lake County this coming year.
The Middletown Merchants have granted approval for an education committee. This committee may start holding weekly breakfast meetings beginning in the next few months at a local eatery featuring Skype conferences.
What is a Skype conference? It's an Internet phone call that can showcase video. And, if the Middletown Area Town Hall is successful in moving Middletown forward, digital signage may soon become a reality for ALL of Lake County. The process, of course, begins with Middletown.
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January's special event is a big screen television giveaway. Every Thursday from Jan. 3 to Jan. 31, between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., the casino will hold ticket drawings for a 42-inch plasma or LCD flat-screen, high-definition television.
From Jan. 5 through Feb. 14, casino visitors can take part in drawings to win a 2008 Pontiac Solstice. Ticket drawings for a special “qualifying key” will be held every Wednesday between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. and every Saturday from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Collect entry tickets starting Jan. 1 from games played or from the casino's special hot seat drawings from Sunday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.
On Valentine's Day – Thursday, Feb. 14 – the final two qualifying keys will be awarded between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. – and then each key qualifier gets a chance to pick the one key that unlocks the automobile.
In January and February, Twin Pine will give away 200 $50 Shell gift cards for goods at Shell locations around the US. Every day the casino will host hot seat drawings for players to win one of the cards.
February's special event will be a $15,000 cash giveaway. Between Feb. 15 and Feb. 29 daily drawings will be held at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.
The 8 p.m. drawings will start at $500 and increase by $500 for each time a ticket is drawn but the winner is absent. Amounts can quickly add up to thousands of dollars, and one ticket can take it all. The 10 p.m. drawings will be just like the earlier drawings, with $500 increases. The casino guarantees it will give away $15,000 in the drawings.
Twin Pine reports that the casino's new games have arrived, including the Wheel of Fortune Video, a 1 cent multi-level progressive game, and the Indiana Jones 5-cent multi-level progressive game.
Twin Pine Casino is located at 22223 Highway 29 at Rancheria Road, telephone 800-564-4872, or visit them on the Web, www.twinpine.com.
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