If it seems like your local supermarket is putting as much effort into selling wine as peddling tomatoes, toilet paper and laundry detergent, well, you’re right. And they may be cutting into the business of stand-alone wine merchants. How big is wine for supermarkets? Plenty big. In terms of dollars, it was the seventh biggest seller of every item in…
If walking on water is just too hard, you can still amaze your friends and confound your enemies by pouring a bottle of wine without ever removing the cork. Better still, it takes no God-like or supernatural powers. All it takes is a Coravin, a new piece of “wine access technology” from a Boston inventor-slash-entrepreneur-slash-wine geek who was looking for…
This is a real apples v oranges, chicken v egg question. Is a $30 bottle of wine any better than a $5.00 bottle? It’s just grape juice that’s been fermented, right? So what’s the difference? Is there a difference? Quite simply, yes. It’s maybe not so much about the price, though, but about how well-made and prepared the wine is…
California winemakers have so far escaped any serious consequences from the state’s unprecedented drought. That luck, however, cannot hold forever, and if meteorologists and other climate experts are right, it won’t have to. It’s becoming increasingly likely that relief, albeit mostly temporary, will come this winter in the form of El Nino, the climatological phenomenon marked by an increase in…
Jesus, the Bible tells us, once turned water into wine. And now you can too. At least that’s the promise of The Miracle Machine, a home fermentation device whose inventors claim it can turn water into Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc and more. You don’t need to be the Son of God, all you need is…
Okay, so maybe it’s not quite what Grace Slick had in mind when she sang “White Rabbit,” but the health benefits of drinking moderate amounts of red wine have been pretty widely documented. It can lower the risk of heart disease and stroke, work against some kinds of cancer cells, help control high blood pressure, increase longevity and make members…