Spain now 2nd largest producer GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The world’s wine drinkers are holding steady, consuming nearly 239 million hecolitres of wine in 2013, the OIV (International Organisation of Vine and Wine) in Paris said this week. Production increased last year, however, by 8.5 percent worldwide, compared to the weak production in 2012. Spain in […]
Archives for April 2014
Ellen on the wall!
I visited the new offices in Sierre of the Vinea Association yesterday and to my great surprise found that I am hanging on their wall! I’m not the only one, I hasten to add: they’ve put up lovely large photos of people from some of their events. This photo of me was taken at the […]
Greening of wine bottles – a wrinkle in the paper container
Yesterday wine pouches were in the news, with one of their selling points their smaller carbon footprint compared to bottles. Today paper bottles are in the news, but not for a happy reason. The US company that year began to make lighter and environmentally greener wine bottles from recycled paper has gone out of business. […]
Spot on? or variation on Australia’s bag in box?
Two US companies, Nuvino and Spotwine, are marketing bagged wine as an innovation that takes the snobbery out of wine while preserving the quality, but the real sales pitch is convenience. Little wine pouches keep the flavour in but come in a small size and don’t require a corkscrew, the literature says. My first thought […]
Drinks: green tea may help short-term brain function
BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Researchers at the University of Basel have found that green tea helps short-term plasticity in the brain, holding out promise for treatment for neuropsychiatric problems such as Alzheimer’s disease. MRI’s (magnetic resonance imaging) were run on healthy males who drank green tea soft drinks. The “MRI showed increased connectivity between the parietal […]