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Wine

…Pomegranates are now used to make wine?

Pomegranates are one of the hottest trends in the food industry. Full of antioxidants and vitamins, the pomegranate is gaining popularity for its health benefits as well as its taste. Now, an Israeli winery has created the first pomegranate wine. Pomegranates usually don’t have enough natural sugars to ferment into alcohol on their own, but [...]

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…Corks no longer pose a dangerous threat?

Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? Sad but true. If you want to avoid an untimely trip to the emergency room following your next celebration cider opening, and find it hard if not impossible to control the cork trajectory on your [...]

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…Vaults can keep your wine safe from oxygen and heat?

Oxygen and heat are the worst enemies of any great wine collection. If you’re going to open a bottle, you better plan on finishing it quickly, as the air that ads to the tongue pleasing aroma will quickly destroy that same great taste and nose. The Oxygen Displacing And Cooling Wine Vault from Hammacher Schlemmer [...]

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…Robots like drinking wine too?

NEC System Technologies has developed a robot that tastes wine, can name the brand from a tiny sip, tell if that specific bottle has gone bad, and recommend a complementary cheese to go with each variety. Using an infrared spectrometer in its left arm, the robot fires a beam of infrared light, and analyzes the [...]

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…Wine barrels make for some good furniture?

Serve up your wine in style at your next party with the Recycled Wine Barrel Cooler. The white oak barrel features a cooler with a watertight liner and drain faucet, and an iron stand. You can also buy recycled wine barrel furniture to match the look and really deck out that wine cellar you’ve always [...]

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…Chef JoAnna offers a do it yourself wine course?

JoAnna, a blogging chef, has posted some tips on getting to know wines. If your knowledge of wines doesn’t go much farther than red or white, this may be the perfect starter course on your path to grape wisdom. Her tips include buying two bottles of the same variety and tasting them both at the [...]

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