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An Invasive-Species Success Story: The Eradication of the European Grapevine Moth
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Entomology Today, a project of the Entomological Society of America with the goal of reporting interesting discoveries in the world of insect science and news from various entomological societies. To learn more, visit www.entomologytoday.org.
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Merlot, Luxury Pomerol And Affordable Everyday Wine
With 657,300 acres, Merlot is the second most planted grape variety in the world, after Cabernet Sauvignon (link to our grape profile of CS). It is the most planted in France. This should indicate that it is well-liked, both by consumers and producers. Nevertheless, Merlot has never really been in the spotlight.
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The Long Read: On ‘Clean’ wine – ambiguity among the vines
Wine is an odd consumable. It’s a drug, it isn’t legally required to list ingredients, and it’s often described with vague, ambiguous terms. In the wake of the natural wine movement and the age of ‘wellness’, it was just a matter of time until a brand tried to hoodwink us. Quickest to the mark were Cameron Diaz and Katherine Power with
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Demystifying additives in winemaking and viticulture
Growing awareness of the impact of food on wellbeing is a good step forward in terms of public health. However, there is growing concern over whether it is problematic to consider all preservatives and additives in general as harmful. An unfortunate byproduct of growing public concern has been that unscrupulous charlatans are more able to se
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'Shadows in the Vineyard': DRC True-Crime Story Coming to TV
The shocking 2010 case of ransom and vine poisoning in Burgundy's grandest vineyard is being adapted into a dramatic limited series starring Noah Wyle and Judith Light
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Vine Click: Augmented Reality in the Vineyard, and in Your Pocket
First thing's first. Wildfires have, once again, ignited in California, sparked by more than 20,000 lightning strikes and intensified by record-breaking heat. As of Wednesday afternoon, the LNU Lightning Complex of fires had burned more than 46,000 acres in Sonoma, Lake, Napa and Solano counties. Tens of thousands of pe
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Anson: Inside the French Foreign Legion’s Provence vineyard
Jane Anson speaks to a colonel who runs the Provence winery of France's 'Légion Etrangère', the only French military unit to have its own vineyard, and tastes the wines.
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CHANGES MADE TO CHILE’S VINEYARDS ‘WILL TAKE 50 YEARS TO SHOW RESULTS’
Chief winemaker at Viña Carmen, Emily Faulconer, has said that wine professionals must realise that it will take up to half a century before projects underway in Chile’s vineyards show real results.
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Second Acts: Leaving Science, Architecture and Academia for Wine
Wine Enthusiast‘s annual 40 Under 40 feature praises the up and coming generation of individuals who move the drinks industry forward, but youth is certainly not required to forge a successful career in the beverage world. Some wine pros who entered the business later in their lives have used diverse experiences to their advantag
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The New Cava Isn’t Called Cava
"Google Maps can’t find Cava, Spain. Make sure your search is spelled correctly.”
This error message sums up the existential crisis facing Spain’s most famous fizzy wine. Unlike Champagne, cava refers not to a place, but a style of wine: namely, Spanish sparkling produced via the traditional Champagne method.
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Vandalismus im Weinberg: Reben des Weingut Breitenbach zerstört
Am Dienstagmittag (18.08.) entdeckten die Mitarbeiter des Weingut Breitenbach aus Frei-Laubersheim in der Nähe von Bad Kreuznach beim Laub schneiden einen enormen Schaden in ihrem Weinberg. Wie das Online Magazin “Boost your City” berichtet, wurden 320(!) Reben im Weinberg oberhalb der Wurzel durchtrennt, kn
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Tempranillo: You Will Soon See More Of The Popular Star Grape Of Rioja
In the world's top-ten list of most planted grapes, there is one that you will find almost exclusively in one country. The grape is the red Tempranillo. The country is Spain.
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How Wine Maven Bernice Liu Found Passion in Bordeaux
Bernice Liu is probably the only member of the entertainment world to be a certified sommelier on top of being an actress, model and singer. Ever since visiting Napa Valley in 2008 after a blizzard delayed filming in Vancouver, Liu has gone on to produce her own wine, Bellavizio, as well as setting up Wine Maven, an online shop for wine love
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Heineken rolls out ‘game-changing’ eco four-pack topper
Brewery giant Heineken UK is abandoning plastic packaging across its Fosters, Heineken and Kronenbourg 1664 beer brands with the roll out of a new eco-friendly cardboard topper for its four-packs.
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Heineken launches cardboard topper for Heineken, Foster’s, Kronenbourg 1664
Heineken UK is rolling out its new ‘Green Grip’ cardboard topper: eliminating plastic from millions of cans. Debuting with Heineken, Foster’s and Kronenbourg 1664, the topper will eventually roll out across Heineken UK's entire beer and cider portfolio.
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£10 million fund set live to help create eco-friendly distilleries
The UK government has set live a £10 million fund to help the country's distilleries become environmentally sustainable.
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South Africa’s alcohol industry welcomes end of alcohol ban
The South African alcohol industry is welcoming the government’s decision to lift its coronavirus ban on alcohol sales, with the trading and distribution of alcohol again permitted from today.
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Phenolic composition, quality and authenticity of grapes and wines by vibrational spectroscopy
Over the last years, spectroscopy has shown increasing interest in the wine science field mainly due to its potential applications. Several spectroscopic techniques, have been applied for different purposes. The improvement on the instruments, techniques and chemometric tools opens a wide range of po
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Tracking down Stalin’s wine cellar
An Australian dealer receives a mysterious fax detailing rare wines languishing in a Georgian cellar. Jeni Port interviews John Baker to find out what happened next.
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RUSSIA’S WINE REVOLUTION
In this year’s annual Global Compass wine market attractiveness report, Russia has shot up 23 places into the top 10 — partly due to Russia’s younger generation of well-travelled adults swapping their parents’ vodka for wine
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Bordeaux and Me-Too-Ism
Bordeaux is still trying to figure out how to sell wine that isn’t from a classed vineyard.
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Bordeaux Tries Youth Appeal Again
Attracting younger consumers has been a largely unsuccessful endeavor for the prestigious region – but they're trying again.
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To Attract More Drinkers, Wine Needs Clearer Labels
For all the hand-wringing among marketers about how to get Millennials and Generation Z more interested in wine, most wineries are still ignoring the most obvious, simple way to attract engaged consumers: clearer education and transparency through labeling.
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What You Should Know about Washington State Wine Regions
Washington State is the United States’ fastest growing, major wine region. The second-largest wine producing state in the union, it grew from 100 wineries to 900 in just 20 years and now tops 1,000. It quintupled vine acreage to 55,000 over the same period. It now makes slightly more wine than the third- and fourth-highest producing stat
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Loire Wine Crossword
How well do you know your Loire wines, grapes and appellations?
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Wine terms: Smooth
The increasing use of the word smooth to describe wine – which is not supposed to be smooth – is one more reason why I worry about the future of the wine business
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Organic wine is booming in Italy. In fact, the country is the world leader in terms of the percentage of surface area dedicated to organic wine grapes.
According to Nomisma Wine Monitor, based on data supplied by industry sources (Sinab, Eurostat and Fibl) as of 2018, 16.6% of Italy’s vineyards were organically cultivated, which accounted for 26% of the world’s organically farmed vineyards. Fr
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What’s Hot in the World of Wine? Latest Trends (Video)
The hosts of CTV’s The Social and I had great fun chatting about hot, new wine trends yesterday. Have you tried any of these wines? Let me know in the comments
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How Bordeaux Varieties Are Becoming Tuscan Wine Traditions
“It’s actually the other way around. You have to talk about Bolgheri to understand why they ended up having Cabernet there,” says Italian-wine writer and critic Ian D’Agata when I ask him about making Bordeaux- varieties wines in Tuscany.
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DMDC – an insurance policy
Dimethyl dicarbonate (DMDC) is a chemical antimicrobial additive that can be used in addition to sulfur
dioxide when there is increased risk of microbiological growth in wine. Its main use has been as an
insurance policy when bottling wines with residual sugar or as a control against Brettanomyces or other
viable microorganisms when adequate levels of sulfur dioxi
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