When you taste a wine or beer that calls up the flavor of rose or honey think phenylethyl acetate; it’s a by-product of the yeast cells that turn sugar into alcohol to make wine and beer. Now, says Belgium microbiologists in a research paper, those flavors and more...
As fires tore through Napa, Sonoma and neighboring counties, wine columnist Lettie Teague reached out to those in the region who lost homes and wineries. Here, their stories and advice on how to provide support where it’s most urgently needed. READ MORE...
The Manhattan location does $8 million a year in wine sales alone, wine director Crystl Horton told Business Insider before she stepped carefully around the wine case-covered floor of the cellar to pull out a crown jewel: the 2009 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. It's...
It’s said that a fine wine only gets better with time. But the recent discovery of wine bottled at the time George Washington was still president really puts that theory to the test. Preservationists at the Liberty Hall Museum in Union, New Jersey recently unearthed...
The U.S. has been the largest market of wine since 2010, according to the Wine Institute. On National Wine Day, here’s a look at how big this market is and how much Americans love their wine. Wine Sales In the last year alone, the retail value of wine sales was close...
Winemakers could soon receive a tax break that would spur production of higher-alcohol wines, a move that would pad their bottom lines but that has health advocates seeing red. The proposal, which has strong bipartisan support in Congress, would cut taxes by 50 cents...
Author and Photographer: Michael C. Higgins, PhD Publisher: International Exploration Society – 349 pages Book Review by: Laxmi Chaandi This book is part of a series of books on the 11 top wine regions in the world, published by the International Exploration Society...
What trends are defining wine in 2017? With such diversity among global products, and with Millennials gaining more interest in the category, effective marketing remains important. And there are plenty of trends that transcend Millennials and marketing — like the...
The Launch Of Vivino Market Could Herald A New Era In Wine Buying Big data has come to wine, and consumers, it seems, are set to benefit. After a month in beta, the Vivino Market formally launched last week, offering wine-lovers the same sort of customized...
British households throw away two glasses of wine a week on average, according to new research. It adds up to 624 million bottles a year nationally, says a new study - enough to fill 333 Olympic sized swimming pools. Wine experts say the reason for the colossal...