November, 08, 2017 Sonoma Tasting Room Battle Heats Up

(Wine-Searcher) - Is Sonoma overdoing the number of tasting rooms in the town center? Liza B. Zimmerman finds rumblings of discontent. How many tasting rooms are too many? Some Sonoma locals think the 33 in the vicinity of the town's central square, the Sonoma Plaza, are simply too ...

November, 08, 2017 NUDIST RESTAURANT OPENS IN PARIS

(TDB) - Taking London’s lead, a nudist restaurant called O’naturel has opened in Paris’s 12th arrondissement, where customers are encouraged to disrobe before dinner. Founded by twin brothers Mike and Stéphane Saada, the restaurant served its first meals on 2 November to...

November, 08, 2017 Researchers identify the yeast genes behind rose and honeyed flavors in beer and wine

(Eurekalert) - A flavor compound called phenylethyl acetate imparts a hint of rose or honey to wherever it's found -- a dab of perfume, a sip of wine, a slug of beer. Microbiologists in Belgium have used genetic mapping to identify, for the first time, specific yeast genes that produce higher level...

November, 07, 2017 Can millennial winemakers fix wine country’s ‘Napathy’ problem?

(SFChronicle) - Punk rock. Experimental architecture. Polish films of the 1950s. These are the inspiration points that Kashy Khaledi cites when describing how he came to found Ashes & Diamonds, Napa’s latest attempt at a Millennial-friendly winery. “This winery is a concept album...

November, 07, 2017 British Columbia Records Early Ice Wine Harvest

(Wines&Vines) - Record-breaking cold has delivered one of British Columbia’s earliest ice wine harvests, with a crew from Summerhill Pyramid Winery of Kelowna, B.C., bringing in berries early Monday morning. The date is a full month earlier than last year, and nearly three weeks earlie...

November, 07, 2017 Are Wine Choices in the Blood?

(Wine-Searcher) - Theories suggest that our wine preferences come from our DNA or our personality. Oliver Styles is worried.   French Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre famously said: "L'enfer, c'est les autres" ("hell is other people").   This misanthropy was presuma...

November, 07, 2017 Martha uncorked: Wine site is the newest of her lifestyle ventures

This is a wine cellar, Martha Stewart. What are you doing here? You're supposed to be busy creating all those crafts in ostensibly simple steps that turn my brain to mush. Frosting cakes with a dexterity that makes us followers feel we're handling the spatula with mittens. Snuggling on...

November, 06, 2017 Wild yeasts make potent fungicides

(Cosmosmagazine) - In a discovery that could benefit the environment and provide a multimillion-dollar windfall for grape growers the world over, researchers from Italy’s University of Milan have identified a strain of wild yeast that is more effective than fungicides in preventing common gra...