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 Mass-market retailers continue to popularize wine in the United States even if U.S. imbibers still don't consume wine in the everyday way many Europeans do. Yet, from dollar stores to warehouse clubs, they are making wine more affordable, convenient and comfortable to buy.
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 As the summer ends, the question of the vegetable patch acquires a new urgency. What do you do with those crafty French courgettes that hid beneath the leaves long enough to become coarse English marrows?
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 Like cyclists, hunt-followers and Wagnerians, wine merchants share an inscrutable solidarity and a defiance of the surrounding culture. Their competition is genial
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 I'd been selling wine for almost 20 years before it finally hit me, like a ton of bricks, that very few of my female friends knew anything about wine," remembers Cecile Giannangeli. This owner of finewine.com shops in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and McLean, Virginia, decided it was time for a change. The solution?
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Wine & Health |
Wine, alcohol and health research: an in-depth look
Every month, new, valid research findings on alcohol, health and social issues are being published in peer-reviewed journals. |
Buy, sell or hold: wine country real estate trends
Kendall-Jackson To Sell 900 Acres; Mondavi Puts 1,500 Acres And Two Wineries On the Market; Coppola Pays A Record $350,000 Per Acre For Napa Vineyard. |
U.S. funds grant for wine/health study
In an unprecedented breakthrough, the U.S. government's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) provided the first major multidisciplinary programmatic grant to study the effects of moderate wine consumption on cardiovascular health to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). |
Wine slightly better than beer for cardiac health
A recent article in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis determined that drinkers of wine benefit from its cardioprotective effects, more so than those who drink beer or other spirits, and wine drinkers may also live longer. |
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