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Every year my wife and I try to plan a fall trip to some place we have not been before.  The choice this year was an RV trip to Branson, Missouri.  Branson is infamous for its broad range of entertainment shows that one can attend and enjoy.  We also like to find out more about a particular state’s wine industry.  For example, I did not know that the area just west of St Louis overlooking the Missouri River is officially recognized as America’s first wine district.  Missouri is also home to over 90 different wineries, comprising an industry that is on the rise. 

In the 1830′s, some of the first settlers to the Missouri River Valley were German immigrants from the Rhine River Valley.  They were looking to settle down and become crop farmers.  They were dismayed to find the plots they staked were not the optimum for accomplishing what they wanted to do.  Instead, the idea of starting vineyards and producing fine wines became the goal.  One such vineyard, Stone Hill Winery, was so successful that it won the first of eight gold medals at the Vienna World Fair in 1870.  The wine industry in Missouri was off and running and building a reputation of producing some of the best wines in the world. 

The hub of the wine industry in the eighteen hundreds became centered on the town of Hermann, Missouri, first settled in 1837.  The city of Hermann takes its name from Hermann the Cherusker, who beat back three Roman legions in the Battle of Teutoburger in 9 AD.  To Germans, he is a symbol of strength.  Historical Hermann is one of those places you visit where “time has seemed to stand still”.  It is full of quaint, red brick buildings, several personalized bed and breakfast inns and numerous other shops and museums.  The town has all the amenities to make a visit there a great experience.  Hermann is the heart of Missouri wine country with its wineries producing nearly 70,000 gallons of wine per year, 1/3 of the state total. 

Aside from the Hermann area, there are four other areas of note worth your time to visit.  In the central part of the state west of Hermann near Fulton, Missouri and accessed by Interstate 70 is the Missouri River wine area.  In the southeastern part of the state near Chaffe and Cape Vardeau is another wine growing area (Route Du Vin) that can be accessed by Interstate 55.  The wine growing area near Springfield (Ozark Mountain) in the southwestern part of the state is accessed using Interstate 44.  Finally, the area just west and adjacent to St Louis is called the Missouri Weinstrasse Tour and is located south of I-70 and north of I-44.  

There is a broad array of events often planned within these wine growing zones.  Wine tasting, winery openings, wine and dinner theatres, wine release parties, and winery anniversary celebrations abound.  I also discovered that most of these events feature “live entertainment” to make the discovery tours even more enjoyable.  As in many other places in the country, the October Fest celebrations always seem to cap off a great wine growing season, making a Missouri October wine tour extra special.  Because of Prohibition in the 1920′s, the Missouri wine industry nearly disappeared, but since the early 1960′s the industry is once again flourishing. 

In 2009, Stone Hill Winery received the Governor’s Cup Award.  That competition featured over 220 different Missouri wines.  Gold medals awarded totaled 42 with 54 Silver and 64 Bronze medals also awarded.  The most important grapes are the Norton, Chancellor Noir, Cayuga, Catawba, Niagara and Concord.  New French hybrids that are also gaining in reputation include Vidal, Seyval, Vigroles and Chardonel. 

Missouri is often affectionately called “The Show Me State”.  My investigation of Missouri’s Wine Country ended up “showing me” that they have carved out a nice niche in wine producing.  Remember, store your wine properly, serve it at the right temperature and enjoy it immensely. 

Author: Ronald Senn, Vice-president, Ideal Wine Coolers, 4/2010

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Ronald Senn is currently Vice-president of Ideal Wine Coolers.  Ron served in the U.S. Navy from 1966-1970.  Ron graduated from the University of Arizona with BS and MS Degrees.  Ron is retired from the U.S. Forest Service after serving over 30 years.

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This is Part 2 of a two-part series. In Part 1 we saw First Automobile Works (FAW) history and its collaboration with Toyota. In this article we will discuss the FAW recent progress in hybrid buses on the market.

China FAW Group Corporation is currently presented as the first automaker in China, and is also one of the oldest industries, dating from 1953. FAW Group, or more commonly known simply FAW, has a broad base of products, cars, mini (Utility), sport utility vehicles (SUV) and trucks, commercial trucks, buses and coaches.

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Since early 1990, many manufacturers of bus chassis lead monitoring FAW to invest heavily in research and development of hybrid bus platform viable business. With a code of environmental responsibility, FAW has prioritized the development of new advanced hybrid bus chassis in early 2002, which could reduce vehicle emissions and fuel economy.

Consider new technology of FAW, the project has the full support of management The center of China, which has taken an aggressive stance on the plan five year national development to reduce emissions and fuel consumption nationally. Through the joint efforts of FAW Group R & D Center and FAW Bus & Coach Company, two hybrid buses powered prototype was made by the Wuxi division of FAW Bus & Coach December 10, 2005.

The plant is ready to begin mass production of new hybrids CA6100SH8 transit buses, designed for Current systems increasingly popular BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) and the traditional public transport within the city. This revolutionary new model of ownership of 10 patent provides an increase in fuel consumption 38% and reducing emissions by 30% compared to traditional buses. With the number of Euro 3 emissions, the new system of 80 kW in parallel hybrid is scheduled for Euro 4 certification by the end of 2006.

In 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, CA6100SH8 twenty of these hybrid buses hybrid called "City Bus", successfully completed field trials on passenger Games Real Olympics. System_ City Bus "used Enova hybrid buses" The pre-transmission hybrid drive, and "exceeded all expectations, "said Liu Minghua, Executive Director of Engineering for Transit Buses trial FAW hybrid-electric.

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This month Enova confirmed it has delivered the first sixty (70) pre-transmission hybrid drive of the first works Auto. FAW has ordered an additional one hundred fifty (150) hybrid drive systems for delivery in 2009. The Enova drive system is incorporated and registered buses in the name of FAW Jiefang CA6120URH hybrid. The Jiefang 12 meters (40 feet) of low-floor hybrid bus can carry 103 passengers and traveling at a speed of 85 km per hour (Km / h) or 53 miles per hour (mph.) buses that meet Euro III emission standards. It consumes only 30 liters of fuel per 100 km (equivalent to 7.84 miles gallon) and emissions from landfills by 20 percent.

According to a report on busesline.com, the Dalian City government has ordered 150 of the Jiefang hybrid bus. Fifty of them will run in the city during the Summer Davos event, which is the Annual Meeting of New Champions 2009, conducted by the World Economic Forum World 10 to 12 September 2009. In October, another 100 Jiefang hybrid power buses will enter service in the city of Changchun, capital of northeast China Jilin.

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To meet the objective of the central government of China to 500,000 electric and hybrids in the coming years HEW, FAW Group Corporation held a ceremony for its new bus factory in Dalian Economic and Technological Development Zone Energy on June 5 ceremony participants included representatives from the city of Dalian, FAW President Xu Jianyi Group and FAW Group Vice President Qin Huanming.

Building the base of the new energy production of new vehicles is an important component of the development of FAW Group plan. The new plant is scheduled building construction in July 2010. The capacity of the plant's annual production is expected to reach 3,000 units, including 1,500 hybrid buses by 2013.

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