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by Carol Bancroft on November 17, 2007
Everyone seems to want to jump on the resveratrol bandwagon these days, wine drinkers and non-drinkers alike. The compound has been making headlines for a while now and people want to take advantage ...
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by Carol Bancroft on November 11, 2007
It seems as if Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius has ruined any possible shot at a career in comedy. Last Tuesday she was attending a fundraiser in Washington state for fellow Democratic governor, Chr...
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by Carol Bancroft on November 9, 2007
Most of the time I'm very liberal with using my "good" things. If I'm having a bad day, I might pull out my good china and use it to make dinner (or lunch!) a little more special. Th...
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by Carol Bancroft on November 5, 2007
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 surpris...
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by Carol Bancroft on November 2, 2007
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 a...
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by Carol Bancroft on October 30, 2007
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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 anythin...
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by Carol Bancroft on October 13, 2007
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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by Carol Bancroft on October 8, 2007
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. Scie...
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by Carol Bancroft on October 7, 2007
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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by Carol Bancroft on October 6, 2007
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 romanc...
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by Carol Bancroft on October 3, 2007
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 f...
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by Carol Bancroft on October 2, 2007
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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by Carol Bancroft on September 28, 2007
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 movi...
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by Carol Bancroft on September 24, 2007
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 rows...
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by Carol Bancroft on September 23, 2007
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 enjoy...
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by Carol Bancroft on September 22, 2007
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 "Contra"...
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by Carol Bancroft on September 17, 2007
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, indu...
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by Carol Bancroft on September 16, 2007
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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by Carol Bancroft on September 7, 2007
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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by Carol Bancroft on September 6, 2007
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 Win...
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by Carol Bancroft on September 5, 2007
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 salesp...
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by Carol Bancroft on September 3, 2007
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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by Carol Bancroft on August 29, 2007
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 b...
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by Carol Bancroft on August 24, 2007
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 doesn'...
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by Carol Bancroft on August 22, 2007
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 por...
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by Carol Bancroft on August 17, 2007
I would venture to guess that most of you reading this blog have seen "Sideways" - a movie that many credit with boosting sales of Pinot Noir (and not helping the image of Merlot). You might...
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by Carol Bancroft on August 16, 2007
When I hear people complaining about allergies and wine, usually they're blaming sulfites (and often wrongly). Or sometimes it's the histamines that cause problems - this often happens to me. ...
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by Carol Bancroft on August 13, 2007
According to market research released last week by the firm Mintel, British drinking are preferring wine (particularly rosé) and cider to beer. lager sales have fallen by five percent over the last tw...
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by Carol Bancroft on August 10, 2007
We've all heard over and over that you can't judge a book by its cover, and the same holds true for wines. There are quite a few impressive wines that, unfortunately, have unimpressive labels....
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by Carol Bancroft on August 9, 2007
The acids in wines can spell trouble for some people with sensitive stomachs, but unlike alcohol content, there's no indication on the wine label of the contents' acidity. With a little bit of...
