Wine Archives - Page 5 of 7

Glowing lava, hot ash create delicious Sonoma County wines
By cbadmin on November 4, 2016
The secret to Sonoma County’s world class wines? You’re standing on it. It’s a bright September morning, and 700 feet above the Valley of the...
Wine Preference Linked to Genetics: Study Finds Liking White Wine is Associated With a Specific Gene
By Administrator on November 4, 2016
Many people tend to have a preference for either white or red wine, even if that preference is slight. Myself, I enjoy both, with my...
Why the wine industry is so excited about millennials
By cbadmin on November 4, 2016
Michael Mondavi comes from a long line of winemakers. His grandfather, Cesare Mondavi, bought and restored Napa Valley’s historic Charles Krug Winery when Michael was...
Alsace’s Tangled Path to the Avant-Garde
By Administrator on November 4, 2016
We are totally has-beens. We’re totally obsolete.” Jean-Michel Deiss and I are sitting in his dining room. I’d told him I was writing about the...
Boxed Wine Finds the Respect It Deserves!
By cbadmin on November 3, 2016
Sacramento, CA (RestaurantNews.com) Wine in a box has been on low store shelves and hidden in restaurant kitchens for decades, never taken seriously for its...
Israeli wine: Competition keeps prices down
By cbadmin on November 3, 2016
As part of Israel’s culinary revolution, it appears that the startup up nation has also become the wine nation. New boutique wineries are springing up...
Near Sedona’s famed red rocks, a wine trail in Arizona
By cbadmin on November 2, 2016
CORNVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — The famed red rocks of Sedona draw visitors from around the world. But less than half an hour away from Sedona’s...
Beyond beer: Wollersheim Winery does Wisconsin proud
By cbadmin on November 1, 2016
The winding blacktop leading to Wollersheim Winery in Wisconsin is a scene straight out of central casting: red-barn dairy farms, sky-blue waters of a rolling...
What Wine Snobs Get Wrong
By Administrator on October 28, 2016
NYU economist Karl Storchmann has always loved wine—so much so that, years ago, before he moved to the U.S. from Germany, he even tried his...
National Cool Climate Wine Show kicks off in Bathurst
By cbadmin on October 27, 2016
Expert winemakers and judges from across Australia are in Bathurst with the job of deciding the best cool climate wines. National Cool Climate Wine Show...
The Italian Winemakers’ Cult
By cbadmin on October 25, 2016
It was a hot, late summer evening in Tuscan wine country — and, unexpectedly, I was getting a lesson in astrology. Inside a grid of...
Bubbles on The Rise: Why Prosecco Is Having A Major Comeback
By cbadmin on October 24, 2016
Did you know Prosecco, and not espresso, is considered Italy’s national drink? Not only is it the main ingredient in the Aperol Spritz and...
Wine Institute: 2016 California Wine Harvest Report
By cbadmin on October 22, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — The 2016 California wine grape harvest was early, with a mostly normal yield of exceptional quality fruit throughout...
Gamay: The Comeback Kid
By cbadmin on October 21, 2016
THE GAMAY REPUTATION was trashed in the ’70s and ’80s when producers in Beaujolais, the grape’s spiritual home in eastern France, marketed it as “Beaujolais...
Three Ways to Beat Champagne’s Climate-Change Problem
By cbadmin on October 20, 2016
Last year saw a banner growing season in Champagne, and winemakers expect a vintage to rival 1947, a 20th-century classic. Rising temperatures have reduced frost...