May, 24, 2016 Scientists have figured out exactly how much fun it is to get drunk

(WP) - Public health discussions about drug and alcohol use tend to be dour, humorless affairs . We talk about all sorts of terrible things associated with drug use, like car crashes and mental illness and kids getting high and people killing themselves and others . Take a look, for in...

May, 24, 2016 The Judgment Of Paris: The Blind Taste Test That Decanted The Wine World

(NPR) - It was the tasting that revolutionized the wine world. Forty years ago today, the crème de la crème of the French wine establishment sat in judgment for a blind tasting that pitted some of the finest wines in France against unknown California bottles. Only one journalist...

May, 24, 2016 Third-generation Phelps step up

(NVR) - As part of a long-term succession plan implemented by the Phelps family to maintain family ownership and management, Joseph Phelps Vineyards has promoted Elizabeth Neuman to the post of director of business development and Will Phelps to director of marketing. Members of the family&rsquo...

May, 24, 2016 Meet The Newest Soldiers In California’s Drought Battles

(Good) - My fellow Americans, it’s time we stop worrying and learn to love the bug. Not only are they imperative to our life here on this planet, but these squirmy little heroes are always finding new ways to help us out of our jams. The most recent case-in-point is California, where  wo...

May, 24, 2016 It’s National Wine Day!

(WTKR) - Not to be confused with National  Drink Wine Day that was on February 18, National Wine Day falls on May 25 each year. Fermented grapes have been part of human existence for thousands of years. According to Guinness World Records , a sweet dessert wine from Cyprus is the oldes...

May, 24, 2016 Auction of world's most expensive wine thrown into chaos after claims they're fake

(Independent) - An American wine fraud expert has called into question the authenticity of a treasure trove of the world’s most expensive wine after it went under the auctioneer’s hammer in Geneva. Six lots of vintage bottles from the mythical Romanée Conti Domain in Burgun...

May, 24, 2016 5,000-year-old Chinese beer recipe discovered

(TDB) - Archaeologists in China have uncovered what appears to be apparatus and ingredients for beer that date back 5,000 years – the first ever found in the country. A team from Stanford University working on pottery vessels from the ‘Mijiaya’ site in Shaanxi province has sai...

May, 24, 2016 Donn Chappellet, Pioneering Vintner of Napa Valley's Pritchard Hill, Dies at 84

(WineSpectator) - Leaving Los Angeles for Napa in 1967, Chappellet produced outstanding wine and put an appellation on the map. Before Donn Chappellet set his sights on producing powerful, ageworthy wines, he made a fortune distributing coffee-vending machines. But in 1967, seeking an escape fro...