August, 28, 2010 The devil you know

We are taught the benefits of protein stabilization of wines, and accept it as fact. We believe because we are told to. Then sometimes along our wine journey, a suspicion creeps in, we have never seen this “haze” formed by protein instability, is this just another Father Christmas story, one tha...

August, 28, 2010 OXYGEN & WINE

A few years ago the hot topic in wine science was the closures debate, and more recently it has been reduction. Now it seems that everyone is curious about the complicated interaction between oxygen and wine--a theme that incorporates both of the earlier hot topics, but which puts them in a broader ...

August, 28, 2010 Cold stabilisation now

Cold stabilisation of wine is one of those things that is very difficult to determine. When is a wine stable, and under which circumstances is it stable? The method used to determine the level of cold stabilisation will determine that. At one time the water bath method using electrical conductivity ...

August, 28, 2010 Demand for Israeli wine is increasing faster abroad

Israelis are buying NIS 800 million worth of wine a year, no more than they did three years ago. The head of the Israel Wine & Grapes Board, Tzachi Dotan, said he had no clear explanation, but it seems many consumers have switched to alternative alcoholic beverages in recent years. Despite the stagn...

August, 27, 2010 The science and art of whisky making

Whisky is the liquid gold that emerges from the distillation of base beer. It is "the separation of the gross from the subtle and the subtle from the gross ... to make the spiritual lighter by its subtlety" (Hieronymus Brunschwig, 15th century doctor and distiller). Almost all spirits are produced b...

August, 27, 2010 Grape Prices Flat in Finger Lakes

Geneva, N.Y. -- The surplus of grapes that was responsible for a drop in prices in New York’s Finger Lakes region in 2009 has eased, but prices this year remain close to where they were last year. Hans Walter-Peterson, viticulture specialist with the Finger Lakes Grape Program, told Wines & Vines ...

August, 27, 2010 India dreams of success with 'chateau mango'

India — Researchers in northern India say they have developed a wine made from mangoes that they hope might one day compete with the traditional grape-based variety.Scientists at the Central Institute of Subtropical Horticultural Research in Lucknow have produced wines using three types of mango n...

August, 27, 2010 Kirin to buyout wine unit Mercian in $127 mln deal

(Reuters) - Japan's top beverage maker, Kirin Holdings (2503.T), said it would acquire the shares it does not already own in Mercian Corp (2536.T) for about $127 million in stock to get a tighter grip on the scandal-hit wine maker. Mercian announced in May that had it inflated profits over several ...