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Three-liter boxes have been used for packaging good quality wines in Europe, Australia and elsewhere for many years, and consumers there rarely attach a stigma of cheap, unpalatable wine to such packages. These contain the equivalent of four 75Oml bottles and are popular with consumers who want wine on their... Read More

We shall herein survey recent research in this field as it relates to women, particularly women who drink moderately. (It is a given that immoderately heavy drinking is very harmful to all.) To begin with, the not so new: for some years it has been observed that it takes less... Read More

NICOLAS JOLY • Winemaker-Viticulturalist-Educator • Savennières, Loire, France The Loire Valley, arguably France’s most exciting wine region, produces underrated and undervalued wines and is home to oenological rebels who thrive on experimenting and evolving techniques, and who regularly and convincingly break France’s iron rules of viticulture and winemaking. Though the... Read More

Well isn’t this overwhelming? Deliciously so, but where in the Expo do we begin in this sea of wine? As tempting as it is to just jump in and taste I would strongly recommend forming a plan before you wade in. That plan should consist first of knowing how to... Read More

THERE HAS to be SUBSTANCE and spirit in a book to occupy real estate in my library. A good example of a book that delivers on substance is Jamie Goode’s The Science of Wine. Explaining the scientific basis underlying wine tasting, viticulture and vinification is necessary for those of us... Read More

LAURETTE COSSABOON • 38 • Buyer & Sales • Ball Square Fine Wines • Somerville, MA Who could have imagined the magical influence the training program at Disney World would have on the retailing of wine and spirits in Davis Square in Somerville? HOW I GOT MY START I’m from... Read More

There are, of course, other reasons Merlot is out of favor with the cognoscenti. There is an awful lot of mediocre, thin, flavorless wine in bottles today with Merlot on the label. The grape’s trajectory through the market has been nothing short of meteoric. Since the overall wine business is... Read More

There’s been a lot of talk lately about avoiding alcohol – the bete noire of many – while still preserving the health benefits of wine, a sort of having your antioxidant and not drinking it too. Grape juice, dealcoholized wine, and resveratrol capsules are being promoted as more temperate, more... Read More

The folks at Miller Brewing have evidently been thinking about that cultural trend, the booming success of both Corona and tequila, and a previously little-known Mexican beer ‘cocktail’ called the chelada: a salt-rimmed glass of light lager with ice and a squeeze of fresh lime. Throw that all in the... Read More