Search Results for 'Cool'

Presidential Wine-Cooler Gift to Hamilton May Fetch $600,000...

A four-bottle wine cooler whose provenance includes the first U.S. president and his treasury secretary could fetch as much as $600,000 this week. The Sheffield-plate bowl, designed to the specifications of George Washington, is coming to [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Washington Chilled Here: A Wine Cooler's Tale

When it came to his drink, George Washington could get a little obsessive-compulsive. Specifying the design of a wine cooler for his claret and port, the founding father said the bottles had to sit upright rather than at angles, the neck [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Cool California weather keeps winemakers waiting

Both of California's famed industries require big up-front investments, significant sales and marketing budgets, and are heavily dependent on star power -- whether from a smoldering starlet or a complex Cabernet Sauvignon grape. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Oregon wine grape crop growth comes late with cool spring we...

Winemakers around the state are coping with another late growing season as persistently cool spring weather delays the growth of the grape crop, The Oregonian reported. Oregon's $1.4 billion wine industry has grown to more than 400 [...]

Posted On : Jun, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Wine Guardian Through-the-Wall Quietest and Most Energy Effi...

Connoisseurs of fine wine store and age their collections according to special requirements that are not satisfied by a typical room air conditioner. So they turn to specialty cooling equipment provided by some manufacturers to control t [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Drink chilled wine outside without a cooler

It may not seem like it now, but soon there will come a day when the sun is shining, and outside activities are but a picnic basket away. When it comes to serving certain wines, temperature makes all the difference, but it can be dif [...]

Posted On : Feb, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Like lettuce or ice-cream, fine wines tackle how to keep coo...

As prices for Bordeaux wine reach ever more astonishing levels, chateaux owners are finally tackling the tricky, and long ignored, issue of shipping and transport conditions by testing a new temperature tracking device. "Fine wine is [...]