Archive for March, 2008
Ten Perfect Food & Wine Pairings
Pascale LeDraoulec 03.04.08, 6:00 PM ET
Spring is on the minds of many chefs, but don’t expect to find asparagus or artichokes on the menu at Alain Ducasse’s new restaurant Adour in New York City.
“They’ve been banned from the ingredient list,” says Tony Esnault, the Ducasse protégé running the kitchen.
Their crime?
“They are just not easy [...]
Amazon to enter US wine market
By Jonathan Birchall in New York
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is to start selling wine in the US, entering a business fraught with regulatory complexities and littered with the wreckage of previous failures.
Amazon is looking to recruit a senior wine buyer, whom it says will be responsible for “the acquisition of a massive new [...]
Moderate Drinkers Less Likely to Develop Deadly Diseases, Study Finds
Though beverage type was not a factor with certain ailments, wine was particularly effective in lowering the risk of heart disease
Jacob Gaffney
Posted: Friday, February 29, 2008
A study published in the December/January 2008 issue of medical journal Angiology has shown further support to the belief that drinking wine responsibly helps reduce the risk of heart disease. [...]
Credit crunch fuels thirst for art and wine
By Clara Ferreira-Marques
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Rollercoaster markets may have cooled investor appetites for shares or property, but interest in offbeat investments is booming as a growing number of art and wine funds compete to combine passion with high returns.
Downturns typically mean a slowdown in investments that are seen as discretionary, but industry watchers say [...]
Questioning BevMo’s wine ratings
The retailer’s scores are set by an in-house critic, raising concerns over whether they are advice or ads.
By Jerry Hirsch
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 3, 2008
Walk down the aisle of any Beverages & More store and you’ll be confronted by boxes and bottles of wine — and a bevy of wine scores. There are 89 [...]
The Wine School of Philadelphia — A Revolutionary Wine Education
PHILADELPHIA, PA–(Marketwire - March 3, 2008) - It’s time to register for the spring semester at the Wine School of Philadelphia! This time, we are offering three newly expanded programs. We have added more classes, more tastings, and more free tutorials to our programs, including the Foundation, Intermediate, and Advanced Programs. Six hundred dollars will [...]
Read More..>>Spanish whites step up to the palate
Frank Sutherland and Kate Sutherland
Gannett News Service
For many years, Spain really lagged in high-quality wine production.
Spanish wines, save for those from only a few regions, were unremarkable at best. But then the country’s wine industry seemed to make a unified decision to revamp its product. Winemakers replaced antiquated equipment with state-of-the-art technology and New World [...]
