February, 06, 2012 Dark chocolate and red wine are the heart-healthy food, drink of love

(Medicalxpress) - Forget the oysters and the champagne this Valentine’s Day. If you want to keep your true love’s heart beating strong, dark chocolate and red wine are the food and drink of love, said Susan Ofria, clinical nutrition manager at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital. “You are not even choo...

February, 06, 2012 India's wine industry booming

(Indiatimes) - Standing in front of a wine tasting class of restaurant managers, wine importers and producers, Cavaliere Subhash Arora declares: "People in India waste too much time in matching wines to food." The crowd looks up from their booklets filled with notes about each wine and stares at ...

February, 06, 2012 Organics - passing fad or more long-term?

(Timesandstar) - Organics. Is it a fad or is there something to it? There are clear advantages in the world’s wine industry for the use of organic farming techniques. Indeed, many vineyard managers would embrace this style of management from the start. Winemakers will want to have their w...

February, 06, 2012 Arctic wave saves Czech ice wine production

(AP) — In a vineyard in Moravia, the Arctic chill striking Europe at least has some people jumping with joy. Winemakers in southeast Czech Republic, waiting for a dip in temperatures during an unusually warm winter, finally got the deep chill they needed to harvest grapes for the most prestigio...

February, 05, 2012 Chanel’s Wertheimers Seduce With Luscious 2009 $100 Margaux

(Bloomberg) - Karl Lagerfeld provoked both boos and cheers for his rustic sketch of Chateau Rauzan-Segla on the 2009 label of the Bordeaux estate, celebrating its 350th anniversary. The wine inside, though, is no dashed-off impression. Deep and ripe, it shows just how much this second growth in the...

February, 05, 2012 Benefits of 1000 bottles of red wine could come from pill

(Newkerala) -Lovers of red wine were delighted when it was found to contain resveratrol - a compound supposed to improve health and maybe even lengthen life.But studies have insisted that to see benefits, you would need to consume large amounts of the compound - more than is found in a bottle of win...

February, 05, 2012 Canada: MP earns support for bill to end prohibition-era ban on cross-border wine shipments

(Vancouversun) - Rookie B.C. MP Dan Albas finds his martial arts expertise handy in Parliament. Albas, 35, says his quarter-century of training helped him ignore distractions and heckling to zero in on objectives like the passage of Bill C-311, a private member’s bill with all-party support tha...

February, 04, 2012 US: Create your own wine label on Facebook

(Yahoo) - If you've ever fantasized about becoming a winemaker, a California wine company is launching a virtual contest that gives oenophiles a chance to create and market their own label. Crushpad, a custom crush facility for winemakers in Sonoma, California, announced the launch of a Facebook co...