May, 12, 2015 Wine bedtime snack can help you lose weight, study claims

(AJC) - Wine drinkers rejoice. A new study has found that a glass of wine before bed can help you lose weight. According to The Daily Mail , Harvard University studied 20,000 women over 14 years.  They drank a half a bottle of wine a day.  Researchers found the women who drank had a 7...

May, 12, 2015 The Curse of Corporate Wine-Think?

(WineEconomist) - When I wrote about the global financial crisis in my 2010 book Globaloney 2.0: The Crash of 2008 and the Future of Globalization , I focused on three forces that I saw as both key to the crisis and limits on global finance: misperceptions of risk, the excessive use of leve...

May, 12, 2015 Berger: Wine gets complicated as industry grows

(PD) - Three decades ago, I wrote a column about how complicated wine was becoming. In 1986, wine imports to the United States were growing so fast that one bottle of every four sold in the United States came from another country. So imagine what it must be like today, as wine imports have grown ...

May, 12, 2015 Does fermented drink kombucha actually have health benefits?

(SCMP) - It's murky brown, laced with fermented mushroom and tastes like slightly sweet, effervescent vinegar, but that hasn't stopped kombucha becoming the latest drink of choice for health-conscious Hongkongers. Kombucha (pronounced kom-boo-cha) is produced by combining sweetened tea with "Sco...

May, 12, 2015 Brett + bacteria = worse, or better

(Seattlepi) - Microbiology has gotten a lot wrong studying yeast and bacteria. We’ve assumed, until quite recently, that if a microbe doesn’t grow in a dish it’s not there. And that a microbe is either on/live/growing or off/dead. And that we can study microbes in isolation &...

May, 12, 2015 California: Stink Bug Closes In on Wine Country

(Wines&Vines) - Sometimes it seems as though a new insect pest is announced every month. The brown marmorated stink bug (also known as BMSB or Halyomorpha halys), which already has become a threat to winemaking in the fast-emerging mid-Atlantic states, has established itself in parts of Ca...

May, 12, 2015 Tesla batteries pair well with wine-making

(MarketWatch) - When Tesla Motors Inc. came knocking, one cellar door flew open. Jackson Family Wines of Santa Rosa, Calif., was one of the first businesses to put Tesla’s TSLA, +1.22%  commercial energy-storage batteries to use, a move the wine company’s chief operating office ...

May, 11, 2015 Napa Valley: Two wineries in industrial area win quick approva

(NVR) - Approving new wineries isn’t always a tortuous, hourslong affair for the Napa County Planning Commission. Commissioners OK’d two wineries within 40 minutes. The catch is that both are in industrial areas near the airport south of the city of Napa, not in the county’s...