I'm used to hearing people gripe about high-alcohol wines, so when I read that the Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom is considering taking low-alcohol wines off wine lists, I was...
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If you're familiar with Crushpad, the San Francisco-based company that is helping to take the world of wine down a peg (in terms of snootiness) by letting consumers make and sell their own wines...
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` I'm sure that tomorrow there will be a headline warning us that wine increases the risk of some such disease, because that's the way things seem to go (and not just with wine, with anything...
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Oh, how I would love to be one of the lucky people who will have the opportunity to taste some incredible vintage wines that were discovered in a British brewery last month. From the BBC: Nearly 400...
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Last week I wrote about the link between alcohol and breast cancer, and sure enough last week also saw reports that resveratrol, a compound commonly found in red wine, might help fight diabetes....
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It happens to me all the time at work: a customer pulls a wine bottle off the shelf and asks, "Is this good?" It's the one question I absolutely dread because, really, how do you answer...
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I'm a little torn on the screwcap vs. cork issue. On the one hand, the ease of opening and resealing a wine bottle that uses a screwcap closure is wonderful. On the other hand, a bit of the...
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Luckily, I am not one of those unfortunate souls who suffer from what is known as the dreaded "Red Wine Headache." Dozens upon dozens of articles have been written on the subject, but the...
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I love to write about the health benefits of wine. Studies have shown that it might help reduce the risk of prostate cancer and heart disease. But, with the good also comes the bad. October is Breast...
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Earlier this week I wrote about new housing developments located on vineyards where people can have their own grapes and perhaps even make their own wine. But what if you're not interested in...
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What a view, eh? On our honeymoon, my husband and I stayed at a winery in Bordeaux, Château Meyre, and that was what we saw from one of the windows in our suite. Imagine looking out on rows upon......
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Earlier this year, I was introduced to an herbal liquor called Agwa de Bolivia, which is made from coca leaves. To me, it tasted quite medicinal and I think has to be mixed with something to be...
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Remember frantically thumbing "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select, start" on your Nintendo controller before the start screen appeared on the game...
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According to a survey of wine industry professions conducted by Robert Smiley, professor and director of wine studies in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis,...
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There might be something refreshing about cracking open a can of soda, or perhaps even a can of beer. But a can of wine? Iron Wine is an Argentinian company that is producing a Malbec-Cabernet blend...
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I think the first label that really and truely grabbed my attention was Bonny Doon's Cardinal Zin, shortly after I turned 21. How could I resist Ralph Steadman's art (especially since I was a...
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Four years ago, Allen Shoup started a winery in Walla Walla, Washington. He had previously run the Simson Lane wine group for 20 years until retiring. Yesterday his winery, Long Shadows, was named...
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I'll be brutally honest here: no matter how many industry reports tell me otherwise, no matter how many articles I read on the subject in beverage industry magazines, and no matter how many...
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According to a recent article in Canada's Financial Post, organic wineries are on the rise in Canada, and winemakers could not be happier. They feel good that they are doing something positive for...
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Further proving that making wine is just as much science as art, scientists have recently decoded the genome of a grapevine related to Pinot Noir, and they hope that their findings will help improve...
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On more than one occasion, after tasting a spectacular wine, I've exclaimed, "This wine is so amazing I could bathe it it!" But to tell the truth, soaking in a tub of cool wine...
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Although it might seem far in the distance, October - National Breast Cancer Awareness Month here in the U.S. - will be here soon. For the fifth year in a row, Fat Bastard wines will be donating a...
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