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Life by chocolate (Everett Herald)
Sometimes you feel like an acai berry: A Monroe chocolate maker has started simply but has plans to expand his business making truffles with merlot and cabernet wines and infusions of green tea, acai berry and other flavors. | More...
Wine Vine: Microscopic Photography Reveals Bacteria Destroying Grape Plant Cell Wall (redOrbit)
Researchers get up-close look at Pierce's DiseaseLike a band of detectives surveying the movement of a criminal, researchers using photographic technology have caught at least one culprit in the act.In this case, electron microscopy was used to watch a deadly bacteria breakdown cell walls in wine grape plants ā€“ an image that previously had not been witnessed. The study will be published in ... | More...
Wine vine: Microscopic photography reveals bacteria destroying grape plant cell wall (Science Daily)
Like a band of detectives surveying the movement of a criminal, researchers using photographic technology have caught at least one culprit in the act. In this case, electron microscopy was used to watch a deadly bacteria breakdown cell walls in wine grape plants -- an image that previously had not been witnessed. | More...
Thieving baboons wipe out vineyards (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Baboons with a taste for Chardonnay grapes are terrorising farmers in South Africa's Western Cape wine region, munching tonnes of grapes ready for harvesting, local media reported. | More...
Silver Oak Cellars and Cork Supply USA Pioneer Use of Technique to Detect TCA in Large Format Corks (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
OAKVILLE, Calif.----Silver Oak Cellars, working with Carlos Macku, Lesa Gonzalez, Ana Cristina Mesquita and Leonard C. Kirch at Cork Supply USA and Cork Supply Portugal, has pioneered the commercial use of a breakthrough sensory evaluation method for detecting the presence of TCA , the chemical compound responsible for cork taint, in corks for large format wine bottles. | More...
Matt Kramer: Good wines are available, locally or globally (The Oregonian)
Although it seems simple, the fact that variety is the best thing about wine is too easily taken for granted. No wine lovers at any time in history have had as many wines from as many places available to them as we do today. | More...
Napa Valley vineyards feeling economy's pinch (Honolulu Advertiser)
In California's Napa Valley, producer of the most expensive U.S. wines, 2010 may be a vintage year for foreclosures as the industry is squeezed by falling land values and a consumer shift to cheaper brands. | More...
Falling land values undermine Napa wineries (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
As many as 10 wineries and vineyards in Napa will change hands in distressed sales or foreclosures this year and next, up from none in 2008. | More...