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Women Judge Wine On Price

07/05/2009 Jozef Schildermans 0

Women find the price tag more important than the taste of a wine. That seems to be the result from research by the University of Harvard and the Economic University of Stockholm. The researchers asked 266 volunteers to taste blind two different Portuguese wines. One wine cost 5 euro, the other 40 euro. A third of the testgroup knew the > Read more …

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Spanish Software Identifies Grapevine Cultivation

14/01/2009 Jozef Schildermans 0

Spanish researchers from the universities of Léon and Santiago de Compostello have developed software that automatically recognizes vineyards on satellite photographs. The software is useful to quickly calculate the potential proceeds of vineyards. That is one of the requirements the E.U. imposes on wine-producing countries. Previously the information was manually collected by drawing lines on satellite photographs. The new software > Read more …

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Traces Of Pesticides In Some Bio Wines

26/11/2008 Jozef Schildermans 0

The Belgian consumer organization Test-Achats questions the reliability of the labelling of bio wines. The consumer organization found four bio wines with measurable traces of pesticides during a recent study of seventeen such wines. Luckily, the legal standards for pesticides were not exceeded for any wine. Wine growers in general still use a lot of pesticides. According to Test-Achats about > Read more …

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Heavy Metals In Wine Pose Health Risk

31/10/2008 Jozef Schildermans 0

Wine often contains toxic amounts of heavy metals, is the conclusion of a scientific study recently published in the peer-reviewed online journal Chemistry Central Journal. Declan Naughton and Andrea Petróczi of London’s Kingston University found high amounts of heavy metals such as copper, lead, magnesium and vanadium in all kinds of wine. Only selected wines from Italy, Brasil and Argentinia > Read more …

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Proton-beam Discovers Fake Wine Bottles

01/10/2008 Jozef Schildermans 0

French scientists at the Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires in Bordeaux Gradigan (CENBG) have discovered an advanced technique for pinpointing counterfeit bottles of wine. A team led by Hervé Guégan bombarded wine bottles with a 3 MeV proton-beam and used the X-rays emitted by the bottles to analyze the chemical composition of the bottles. They compared this with the known chemical ‘fingerprint’ > Read more …

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Matige alcoholconsumptie verbetert bloeddruk bij vrouwen, niet bij mannen

11/02/2008 Jozef Schildermans 0

Er is ondertussen voldoende bewijs dat stevige alcoholconsumptie de kans op hoge bloeddruk bij zowel mannen als vrouwen verhoogt. Uit een studie die zopas werd gepubliceerd in Hypertension blijkt dat matige alcoholconsumptie echter een positieve invloed heeft op de bloeddruk bij vrouwen, maar een negatieve bij mannen. In de studie werd over een periode van verschillende jaren gekeken naar de > Read more …

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Studie: “Dure wijn wordt het meest geapprecieerd”

16/01/2008 Jozef Schildermans 0

Hoe duurder de wijn, hoe meer hij wordt geapprecieerd, zelfs zonder dat het smaakcentrum van de hersenen actief is. Dit blijkt uit een studie van de Graduate School of Business van Stanford en het Californisch Instituut voor Technologie die gepubliceerd werd in het recentste nummer van de Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In de studie werden twintig personen > Read more …