According to a study by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, even moderate alcohol consumption increases the risk of breast cancer. Women who drink 14 units of alcohol a week have a 24 percent greater risk of breast cancer than abstainers. Fourteen units of alcohol is regarded as moderate alcohol consumption, seven units is the recommended ‘safe level’. > Read more …
Languedoc, one of the largest wine regions in France, will receive a ‘simpler’ AOC classification from mid 2011. The comprehensive Languedoc AOC remains the base of a pyramid topped by both ‘Grands Vins du Languedoc’ and ‘Grands Cru du Languedoc’. Grands Vins caters for the more famous subappellations such as Minervois, Corbières and St. Chinian. Grand Cru designates the best > Read more …
It seems that we can write this article every year during the “en primeur” campaign in Bordeaux. But 2009 “en primeur” prices for Bordeaux wines really are stratospherically high. Editor Michael Carpentier summarized it thus in a recent e-mail: Montrose 2009 costs as much as Mission or Mouton 2008 La Lagune 2009 = Clinet 2008 Haut Bailly 2009 = Las > Read more …
A female babysitter of 41 years from Georgia, USA gets eight years in prison and four years probation because she gave wine to a nine months old baby, reports the website Crimesider. The babysitter was babysitting a family with four children while the mother was called away for an emergency. To make the 9 years old baby sleep better, she > Read more …
The Australian inventor Barry Rees has invented a thin plastic disc that preserves the freshness of an opened bottle of wine for several days. You put the disc on top of the wine in an opened bottle with a special tool. The disc protects the wine from oxidation for up to five days, provided that the bottle is stored in > Read more …
The French Institut National de l’Origine et de la qualité (INAO) has finally approved the name change for the AOC Tricastin. The name change has been debated since July 2008, after an uranium leak in the nearby nuclear plant Tricastin (near Avignon). The new name is AOP (Appellation d’origine protégé) Grignan-Les Adhémar. The existing vin de pays Comté de Grignan > Read more …
Moderate drinkers are healthier than teetotalers, but alcohol has nothing to do with it. According to a French study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition moderate drinkers are more optimistic, less stressed and leaner than teetotalers. They studied 150,000 men and women. The researchers split the group into four categories: abstainers, moderate drinkers (less than 10 grams of > Read more …
In southern France, a new case of fraud with Pinot Noir has been discovered. The chairman and director of the cooperative winery of Coursan Armissan near Narbonne will appear Friday before the criminal court of Narbonne, reports the Midi Libre. The cooperative has distributed 10,000 hectoliters of forged Pinot Noir in the French market. The cooperative also sold false Merlot, > Read more …
Last year, a “well-known” vigneron from Burgundy let 2500 hectoliters of Burgundy-wine for a total value of 2.135 million euros disappear from his accounts, according to the customs authorities of Burgundy. The fraud was discovered on May 18 last year at a customs inspection of the accounts of the vigneron. The regional Director of customs reported the fraud to the > Read more …
It’s the season of allergies. If you are currently sniveling and sneezing, trying to get through the day, it might be a good idea to abstain from wine and other alcoholic beverages, according to scientific research. The problem lies not so much with the alcohol, but with the amount of histamine in your favorite beverage. Histamine is the chemical that > Read more …
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