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Wansink outlines the studies in colorful language, highlighting the often duplicitous methods of social science research. In one restaurant, bottles of the same wine were passed out with either a North Dakota or California label. Not surprisingly, diners rated the North Dakota bottle as tasting worse. More unexpected was that...
(3 of 5) This is the wasteful - some say, shameful - side of the European Union's wine regime: when vineyards produce more than they're able to sell, the E.U. hands out subsidies to turn the surplus into industrial alcohol. The cash is supposed to be be reserved for exceptionally...
(4 of 5) Marie Courselle knows all too well what he means. Château Thieuley, which her grandfather bought in the 1950s, used to sell about 30% of its output to big French retailers. Then, two years ago, it received a blunt message: Cut your prices, or we'll...
(5 of 5) Some in Bordeaux may shudder at that prospect, but the region as a whole is racing to compete better. Some winemakers are thinking of allowing some winemaking techniques they long spurned, including sprinkling wood chips in maturing wine as a cheap alternative to keeping it in oak...
During the apartheid era, South African wine was controlled by a government monopoly that set rules on viticulture that were every bit as strict as those in France. But in the last decade and a half, the industry has been essentially reborn as it has rushed to embrace the global...