Croatian president visits Grgich

PARIS -- France's government said Wednesday it will soon allow vintners to flavor their wine with wood shavings -- a moneysaving shortcut to help face off tough international competition, and a reform that immediately angered purists.

BERKELEY -- California wine sales in the United States hit another record in 2005, a rise experts attribute to a jelling of factors from the Supreme Court weighing in on wine shipments to the vino-centric movie, "Sideways."

American Canyon

Personal property is distinguished from real property in that it is usually movable and not permanently affixed as are land, buildings and vines. There is also a distinction between tangible personal property such as boats, welders, and computers and intangible personal property such as stocks, bonds, and bank accounts.

Napa Valley has its Winecrusher statue to remind visitors they're entering wine country. Now Prosser, Wash., in the heart of Yakima Valley, is thinking about building a 100-foot high water tower in the shape of a wine glass.

Weekly wine columnists for newspapers often fall into a habitual pattern: Facing a deadline, they taste a handful of recent-release wines, write a brief introduction about the class of wine they fall into, and plop down, at the end of the column, a few "tasting notes" on the best wines they tasted.

JAY GOETTING, Register Staff Writer

As the U.S. airline industry unraveled over the past five years, JetBlue Airways Corp. proved that a carrier with the right mix of low overhead, cheap fares and distinguished service could succeed during a punishing downturn.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Bruce Quan Jr. didn't know much about his great-grandfather before he noticed intriguing references connecting him to the great earthquake and fire that destroyed this city on April 18, 1906.

When Dole Food Co. recently borrowed more than $1.3 billion, the lenders were so eager they imposed very few terms on most of the money they lined up. It was a tasty deal for the fruit-and-vegetable company, which will be able to use the fresh cash to help refinance other debt.

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah -- It's a plan for development that will take more than 50 years from start to finish, on the largest piece of privately owned land next to a U.S. metropolis for an expected half-million residents.