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  • August 2008

    • The State of US Wine, in 50 Bottles

      Time  |  Aug 29, 08 2:37 PM CDT

      The State of US Wine, in 50 Bottles

      (Newser) - Wine snobs contend that "terroir"—soil, climate, and topography—restrict great wines to certain regions. But are they right? All 50 US states make wine, so Joel Stein sampled a bottle from each to test the claim in Time . He discovered "quite good" varietals from surprising states like Delaware and Kentucky, but also "truly disgusting" wines from the Deep South. More »

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      wine  • Kentucky  • USA  • Delaware  • grapes  • Time

    • Wine Drinkers Pick the Pink

      Portfolio  |  Aug 27, 08 3:04 PM CDT

      Wine Drinkers Pick the Pink

      (Newser) - Rosé wine has gone from tacky to trendy, with easy-to-swallow prices helping sales bubble up by nearly a third in the past year, compared to just a 5.1% boost for all wines. Both US and European consumers are hooked—in France, rosés are selling faster than whites, reports Portfolio . The blush boom has caught the attention of serious players, with makers in Bordeaux and other regions rushing to cash in. More »

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      France  • wine  • wine industry

    • Midwest Adding Grapes to Its Grain

      Economist  |  Aug 22, 08 5:40 PM CDT

      Midwest Adding Grapes to Its Grain

      (Newser) - As farmers seek higher profits and politicians angle for healthier rural economies, vineyards are cropping up across the Midwest, the Economist reports. Michigan and Ohio now have over 100 wineries each, with vintage monikers handily swiped from French-named Midwestern locales like “Marquette” and “Frontenac”—or, less convincingly, “La Crescent.” More »

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      wine  • agriculture  • Midwest  • wine industry

    • Critic's Hoax Makes Spectator Turn Red

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 22, 08 2:25 PM CDT

      Critic's Hoax Makes Spectator Turn Red

      (Newser) - Wine Spectator bestowed one of its awards of excellence on the Milan restaurant Osteria L'Intrepido. Problem being, the restaurant doesn't exist. A mischievous wine critic made it up, along with its wine list—which featured wines panned by the magazine—then forked over the $250 application fee, the Los Angeles Times reports. "I am interested in what's behind all the ratings and reviews we read," said Robin Goldstein. "The level of scrutiny is not sufficient." More »

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      advertising  • wine  • magazine  • hoax  • restaurants

    • Subtle Cabernets Recall Napa's Heyday

      New York Times  |  Aug 20, 08 6:33 PM CDT

      Subtle Cabernets Recall Napa's Heyday

      (Newser) - Forget "jammy fruit bombs" that crush the palate—subtle cabernets are making a comeback in Napa Valley. "You don’t hear much about these sorts of wines today," writes Eric Asimov in the New York Times . While critics swoon over rich, oaky cabernets, a few wineries still rely on elegant floral and herbal flourishes that made the region famous years ago. More »

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      wine  • dining  • Napa Valley  • vineyard  • cabernet sauvignon

    • Napa Valley Girl Makes Splash in French Wine Marketing

      Gourmet  |  Aug 17, 08 2:00 PM CDT

      Napa Valley Girl Makes Splash in French Wine Marketing

      (Newser) - France’s wine business is stuck in the doldrums, as American wines (and their aggressive marketing campaigns) explode onto the scene. But one Napa Valley girl is working to change that, by introducing stodgy French vintners to the modern concept of marketing. “A lot of what I do is psychological,” Jaime Araujo tells Gourmet . “Changing the identity of a wine that’s been in your family for four hundred years is hard, and it takes a lot of hand-holding.” More »

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      France  • marketing  • wine  • wine industry  • Napa Valley

    • How to Spot Overpriced Wines

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 16, 08 10:26 AM CDT

      How to Spot Overpriced Wines

      (Newser) - Why does a bottle of wine cost $100 at one restaurant and three times that at the bistro down the block? The Wall Street Journal asked wine experts to decipher vino pricing and offer tips for finding the best deals. The results: Expensive wines often mean better value, as do less popular varietals. And never, ever buy by the glass. More »

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      Wall Street Journal  • wine  • restaurant  • price  • dining  • deal

    • Wash. Vineyards Flush With Pot Crop

      Associated Press  |  Aug 10, 08 4:50 PM CDT

      Wash. Vineyards Flush With Pot Crop

      (Newser) - Washington state is cracking down on drug dealers' latest innovation: Using vineyards to secretly grow marijuana crops, the AP reports. Police have made 22 arrests this year and confiscated 110,000 pot plants from the Yakima Valley alone, worth more than $100 million. But tracking dealers isn't easy: Some are in Mexico and others buy farms with fake names in quick cash deals. More »

    • Philosophical Vintner Rethinks Wine

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Aug 8, 08 1:39 PM CDT

      Philosophical Vintner Rethinks Wine

      (Newser) - Abe Schoener is reinvigorating California wines with a decidely unorthodox, almost experimental, approach, writes Jon Bonne in the San Francisco Chronicle . Schoener, who lacks formal training, eschews the traditional do's and don’ts of the craft with his Scholium Project winery. His wines "are bizarre, ingenious and polarizing—quite simply unlike anything else being made anywhere in this country," writes Bonne. More »

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      California  • wine  • wineries  • plants  • biology  • grapes  • organic wine

    • Greek Whites 'Smack of Sunshine'

      New York Times  |  Aug 6, 08 1:29 PM CDT

      Greek Whites 'Smack of Sunshine'

      (Newser) - In honor of the Olympics, Eric Asimov set out to rediscover Greece's white wines for the New York Times . He found whites just subtly different from the made-to-be-drunk young bottles of Italy and Spain, fermented from "unfamiliar, indigenous grapes grown nowhere else." The moschofilero varietal dominated the tasting, including the panel's No.1 pick: a 2007 Tselepos that "smelled like roses and tasted like grapefruit." More »

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      New York Times  • wine  • Greece  • reviews  • dining  • critic

    • French Winemakers Turn to Terror

      Time  |  Aug 2, 08 7:30 AM CDT

      French Winemakers Turn to Terror

      (Newser) - Tough times have turned some wine-growers in southwestern France to "wine terrorism," Time reports. Guerrilla grape-growers have bombed supermarkets and government buildings, hijacked trucks carrying foreign wine, and drained tanks. The growers want the French government to protect them from the cheap imports they say are threatening their survival. More »

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      France  • terrorism  • protests  • wine  • wine industry  • wineries

  • July 2008

    • Surprise: Bordeaux Whites Are a Delight

      New York Times  |  Jul 30, 08 4:20 PM CDT

      Surprise: Bordeaux Whites Are a Delight

      (Newser) - It almost sounds contradictory: exquisite white wine hails from Bordeaux, the unofficial home of red. But the whites produced in Pessac-Léognan—the heart of the Bordeaux region in France—include "some of the most thrilling, underappreciated white wines in the world,” Eric Asimov raves in the New York Times . Historically popular in Britain, the whites are now gaining traction in Belgium, Russia, and Japan. More »

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      France  • wine  • Bordeaux

    • Prosecco Targets Champagne Crown

      Reuters  |  Jul 22, 08 8:07 AM CDT

      Prosecco Targets Champagne Crown

      (Newser) - Sales of Italy's answer to champagne have been bubbling up for years, Reuters writes, but prosecco producers plan to boost output to 250 million bottles next year, with an eye on someday overtaking champagne as the world's favorite sparkling wine. The bubbly is cheaper to make than its French rival, and vintners believe its sweeter taste will go down well in red-hot export markets like China. More »

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      Italy  • wine  • wine industry  • wineries  • champagne  • sparkling wine

    • Rome Cracks Down on Revelers

      Reuters  |  Jul 11, 08 5:50 PM CDT

      Rome Cracks Down on Revelers

      (Newser) - Rome's residents and visitors had best behave themselves for the next 4 months: An experimental ordinance bans eating and drinking in the streets of the Eternal City, and cracks down on hooligans who want to "shout, sing or be noisy," Reuters reports. The newly elected mayor enacted the law, which applies through October in "areas of historic, cultural or artistic value." More »

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      food  • Italy  • wine  • law  • Rome  • singing  • drinks

  • June 2008

    • In Vino, Room for Interpretation

      Gourmet  |  Jun 17, 08 11:27 AM CDT

      In Vino, Room for Interpretation

      (Newser) - That peppery flavor of Syrah? It comes from the same chemical that gives pepper its aroma, a recent study says. So sommeliers aren't making this stuff up: Wine bouquets actually have an empirical basis. But the compounds are tough to pin down because they change when mixed, and 20% of the study's subjects couldn't whiff the chemical in question at all, Tara Q. Thomas writes in Gourmet . More »

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      wine  • chemical  • taste  • Food & Wine

    • Wine Reviews: Taste the Pretension

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 13, 08 11:46 AM CDT

      Wine Reviews: Taste the Pretension

      (Newser) - When wine lovers say they taste notes of cherries or hints of tobacco, “usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass,” Joel Stein writes in the LA Times . Wine dialogue has devolved into a meaningless string of obscure scents, Stein says. It’s boring—too boring even to make fun of—and it says virtually nothing about the wine. More »

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      wine  • wine industry  • reviews  • taste

    • '07 Not Looking Like Good Year for Bordeaux

      AFP  |  Jun 11, 08 1:45 PM CDT

      '07 Not Looking Like Good Year for Bordeaux

      (Newser) - French winemakers are increasingly worried about fizzling sales of futures from the 2007 Bordeaux harvest, AFP reports. Investors and drinkers are skipping the vintage because they expect little increase in price by the time it's ready to drink in 2009; one merchant says reluctance to trim prices shows "avarice and arrogance" from producers of France's flagship wines. More »

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      wine  • Bordeaux  • vintage

    • Seaver Trades Curve Balls for Cabernets

      Bloomberg  |  Jun 5, 08 8:40 PM CDT

      Seaver Trades Curve Balls for Cabernets

      (Newser) - You might think baseball Hall of Famers might be content to rest on their laurels, but not so Tom Seaver, Bloomberg reports. The three-time Cy Young winner spent some time as an announcer after his retirement in 1987, but his interest in wine led to the founding GTS Vineyards in California's Napa Valley in 2001. Now, his labor is starting to bear fruit. More »

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      California  • New York Mets  • wine  • Baseball Hall of Fame  • Napa Valley  • vineyard

    • Red Wine Linked to Longer Life

      New York Times  |  Jun 4, 08 5:19 AM CDT

      Red Wine Linked to Longer Life

      (Newser) - Researchers have found new signs that the fountain of youth could be filled with red wine, the New York Times reports. Resveratrol, an ingredient in grape skins, has been found to slow the effects of aging by triggering a change in the body—making it switch resources from fertility to tissue maintenance. Some scientists are so impressed by the findings that they're already taking resveratrol capsules. More »

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      health  • wine  • aging  • life expectancy  • red wine  • resveratrol

  • May 2008

    • France Eases Wine Laws to Cork Competition

      Times (UK)  |  May 30, 08 11:53 AM CDT

      France Eases Wine Laws to Cork Competition

      (Newser) - France is ditching some long-cherished wine rules to compete with upstart New World wines, the London Times reports. The country, which sees itself as the center of the wine world, has been steadily losing market share to wines from places like Australia and California. A new class of French wine will permit "foreign" techniques such as adding tannins or wood chips. More »

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      France  • wine  • wine industry  • wineries

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