Search Results for 'Taste'

Could a new glass improve the taste of wine?

Could a wine glass shaped roughly like a closed tulip blossom revolutionize the savoring of fine vintages by taming the alcohol in the wine? That's the hope of French luxury crystal glassmaker Baccarat, which recently began sales o [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Experts 'taste wine differently from others'

A study has found that specialist oenophiles have a much more acute sense of taste than the rest of us – and it may even be in the genes. The findings mean that apparently eccentric descriptions of wine by critics such as Jilly Gool [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Wines Worth a Taste, but Not the Vitriol

ROBERT M. PARKER JR., the powerful wine critic, called it “one of the major scams being foisted on wine consumers.” Other wine writers have joined in, though perhaps with less vitriol. Mike Steinberger, in Slate.com, referred [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Wine festival offers new tastes

With seven more wineries to sample from this year, wine connoisseurs strolled into Pemberton Park on Saturday afternoon for the annual Autumn Wine Festival. Entering its ninth year, the festival followed past traditions by having foo [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Wine Investments Can Offer A Brambly Nose With An Aftertaste...

While private equity hasn’t exactly been popping corks every day in the wine industry, activity has nonetheless seemed to pick up after the great consumer downturn with action from a few firms. Bacchus Capital Management, which t [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Good taste: Chilean wine

Selling Chilean wine in New Zealand is almost as easy as selling coal to Newcastle. The country is already overflowing with wine, so why would we want any more? Unsurprisingly, there are only a handful of Chilean wines to be found in N [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Cheap wine 'good as pricier bottles' - blind taste test

The blind test at the Edinburgh Science Festival saw 578 members of the public correctly identify the "cheap" or "expensive" wines only 50% of the time. They tasted a range of red and white wines including merlot and [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Napolean III-era claret that 'probably tastes like vinegar' ...

A bottle of wine from Napoleon III's reign in France almost 150 years ago has sold at auction for a record £147,020. The 1869 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild was sold by Sotherbys in Hong Kong to Chinese investors, along with a serie [...]

Posted On : Nov, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Good taste - Italian wine

Hands up if the words "Italian wine" conjure up images of cheap Chianti in a wicker-covered bottle? If your hand is still by your side, you're in the happy minority who know there's more to Italy's vino than wine bo [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Harvest Wine Weekend offers a taste of Pa

Hundreds of wineries in the Paso Robles Wine Country are gearing up for the annual Harvest Wine Weekend, held Oct. 16 to 18. Over the course of the anticipated three-day event, guests are invited to take part in a celebration of the 2009 vi [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Cheap wines apparently taste good in recession

Sales of low-priced wine are being buoyed by thrifty consumers, who are drinking at home more often instead of dining out. Particularly popular are domestic wines ranging in price from ¥500 to ¥1,000, prompting bottlers to promote [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Getting a Taste of Virginia Wines

As a wine director at a restaurant, it's not uncommon to find myself tasting "in bulk"--say, 80-plus wines in a single day. Usually, I'm considering the quality of the wine in the glass, a well as the price point, where it [...]

Posted On : Aug, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Can lunar cycles affect the taste of wine?

A German great-grandmother called Maria Thun is wielding huge influence on the British wine industry. A calendar she first published in the 1950s categorises days as "fruit", "flower", "leaf" or "roo [...]

Posted On : Apr, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Wine Notes: A new taste of wine downtown

The proliferation of wine tasting rooms in downtown Paso Robles continues. Last week, Clayhouse Wines, a family-owned operation with roots in the Northwest timber industry, opened its new tasting room on 13th Street, bringing the number of [...]