Posts Tagged ‘wine’

Wine scanner used for TSA explosives screening

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It’s a porno-scanner for your wine, and the TSA might start using it at your airport.

What do you really need to start making wine?

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If you're looking to start making your own wine, here's the minimum list of equipment you will need.

Biodynamic Wine – Organic’s older, crazy half-brother

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Made from grapes grown with a method that is part organic farming and part superstitious silliness

 

The ritual of drinking

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Why do we drink the drinks we do the way we do?

 

DNA Drinking

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Genetic engineering in beer and wine production

Can red wine make you live longer?

Can red wine make you live longer?

There are many studies showing the benefits of red wine, but how real are the claims?

The Basement Winery

Nothing beats making wine from grape!

Making your own wine is one way to outdo Martha Stewart.

Wine Vintage Voodoo

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As Tom Petty so aptly put it, “the waiting is the hardest part”.

French steal Swiss town’s Champagne identity

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How would you feel if someone came to you and said you could no longer use your name?  Your identity is no longer yours. 

 

The $7.9 Million Schnoz

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Lloyd’s of London is known for insuring some strange things, this is no exception.  Ilja Gort, the Dutch owner of Chateau de la Garde in Bordeaux, producer of Tulipe Wines got his nose insured.