March, 31, 2016 Oral Bacteria Shown to Produce Aromatic Volatiles from Glycosidic Precursors: Implications for Perception of Aromas and Flavors

(Academicwino) - How a wine tastes is dependent upon many factors, including (but not limited to) the variety, the vintage, where the grapes are grown (soil, climate, etc), as well as the viticultural and winemaking techniques employed during processing.  The compounds responsible for how...

March, 31, 2016 Starbucks Japan Releases a Wine Frappuccino — Prepare to Lose Your Cool

(POPSugar) - The Starbucks Evening program in Japan just released Wine Fragginos , or wine Frappuccinos. Nine-hundred yen (approximately $8) will get you a lovely glass of wine blended with ice to create the best adult slushie you could ever hope for. Though it just came out a day ago, first...

March, 31, 2016 America Drinks More Pink, So Provence Is In The Black

(Forbes) - The silly tradition to drink pink wine only in summer is dead or dying, and that’s a good thing. When you taste the wonderful variety of rosé wines available, you realize that they can be as serious or as frivolous as any red or white, and they can spark a fine dinner as eas...

March, 31, 2016 WORLD’S FIRST ‘VAGINAL BEER’ SEEKS FUNDING

(TDB) - A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to commercialise the world’s first ‘vaginal beer’. Using a campaign on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo, a company called   The Order of Yoni (‘yoni’ means ‘vagina’ in Sanskrit) says that it...

March, 30, 2016 Red wine is not the magic bullet

(SeattleTimes) - While moderate amounts of alcohol can certainly fit into a healthful diet (for most people), it appears alcohol might not be healthful in and of itself. ON NUTRITION So you enjoy a glass of wine, a pint of craft beer or a dry martini (shaken not stirred) every so often —...

March, 30, 2016 TORRES SERVED TO OBAMA IN CUBA

(TDB) - Torres’ ‘Milmanda’ 2012 and Vega Sicilia Unico 2007 were among the wines served to President Barack Obama on his trip to Cuba this month. On 21 March Obama became the first US president to visit the Caribbean island in nearly 90 years as diplomatic relations betwee...

March, 30, 2016 On the rocky shores of Nova Scotia, Canada's next great wine region

(CityNews) - Past the rocky, ocean-battered coastline of Nova Scotia is an unlikely tale of success: a burgeoning wine industry producing palate-pleasers that connoisseurs say can rival what Champagne, France has to offer. Winemakers in the lush heartland of Nova Scotia’s wine industry, th...

March, 30, 2016 China's Largest Wine Maker Targets Chile Amid International Push

(Bloomberg) - Changyu wants foreign revenue to make up 30 percent of total Company bought Spanish winery Marques del Atrio last year Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine Co. plans to buy vineyards in countries including Chile and Australia as China’s largest wine maker expands abroad. “...