December, 25, 2014 A taste of Sardinia: Carignano vines can sometimes top 100 years old

(PennLive) - Occasionally I'll step out of the mid-Atlantic and feature stories on grapes and grape growers around the world. The two bottles featured today come from Sardinia,  the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and before Cyprus) and an autonomous region of Ital...

December, 25, 2014 "Let Us Adore And Drink!" A Brief History Of Wine And Religion

(Science20) - The Greeks hailed Dionysus (also known as Bacchus) as their patron god of wine, said to provide ecstasy and spiritual vision to his devotees. Pictured is Caravaggio's 1595 masterpiece Bacchus. Wikimedia In a letter to the Abbe Morellet in 1779, Benjamin Franklin mused that the st...

December, 23, 2014 Red wine compound activates stress response to promote health benefits

(MNT) - y now, most of us have heard of resveratrol - a compound found in red wine and grapes that has been linked to an array of health benefits, such as reduced risk of age-related diseases. Researchers have long investigated how resveratrol promotes such benefits. Now, scientists from The Scripp...

December, 23, 2014 U.S. wine industry toasts decline in Japan’s sake sales

(McClatchyDC) - Standing next to the wine display at the Nissin World Delicatessen in Tokyo, Masahiro Ino eyed a $99 bottle of Silver Oak cabernet sauvignon imported from California. “I do prefer wine over sake,” said Ino, 24. “Wine is becoming very trendy. It’s becoming ma...

December, 23, 2014 Downey Launches Wine Fraud Website

(Wine-Searcher) - One of the world's top wine fraud investigators is making sure that vendors and collectors can protect themselves from swindlers. Maureen Downey, the fine wine authenticator and consultant who was instrumental in bringing down Rudy Kurniawan is launching a new website named WineF...

December, 23, 2014 China Still Open to U.S. Wine

(Wines&Vines) - In recent years the United States was named the No. 1 country for wine imports, but some domestic wineries still yearn to diversify their consumer base beyond U.S. borders—and for many of them, overseas markets are the final frontier. For West Coast wineries—and a ...

December, 23, 2014 Pinot Noir Is Wine’s Polar Bear

(Slate) - If plants had a climate change ambassador akin to the animal kingdom’s polar bear, it would probably be pinot noir. If the withholding, thin-skinned, and heat-averse wine grape were your girlfriend, your friends would call her high-maintenance. Even subtle shifts in climate affect ...

December, 23, 2014 Pennsylvania: Wine collectors fight to save $160G collection from state-mandated destruction

(FoxNews) - Pennsylvania v. 2,447 Bottles of Wine is a death penalty case. The bizarre legal battle involves a Keystone State lawyer whose vino was seized when he was charged with violating the state's notoriously strict alcohol regulations. The criminal case is over -- but now Arthur Goldman and...