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...should disaster strike their vines. I'll be stockpiling my own supply of the wines I fancy now to enjoy for years to come. Dave Pierce London It's too bad none of those overproductive vintners realize that there is also a market for that delicious fruit beverage called grape juice. David Koblick Steyr, Austria Exit Signs Re "5 ways to prevent Iraq from getting even worse" [Oct. 30]: Your recommendations contained one major flaw. They would be implemented by an Administration that has proved its total incompetence. The U.S. is part of the problem, not the solution. Only...
Oenophiles rejoiced last week when headlines trumpeted a study suggesting that the fountain of youth flows with red wine. Scientists at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging found that mice fed a high-calorie diet along with large doses of resveratrol--a natural substance found in grape skins--lived longer than mice given no resveratrol. Many of the negative effects of gluttony, such as liver damage and diabetes, were mitigated. One big consequence was not: the mice still...
...been a good boy and maintained this quite nice, neat little vineyard for the last 15 years and have worked--well, not me, but somebody has improved the quality of the grape to the extent that I've been told now I should start to think about a cave and bottling and actually doing a thing for myself...
...looking for an easier life. "I'm not having fun any longer," he says. "The competition is growing and that scared me. This crisis will last. It's a structural one. Nobody will get out safe and sound." The wine glut's impact is worldwide. In California, big grape growers and some wineries have gone into bankruptcy, including the Legacy Estate Group that owned prestigious brands such as Arrowood, Byron and Freemark Abbey. (The group was sold last month to a rival producer, Kendall-Jackson.) In South Africa, grape prices have dropped about 30% over the past two years, prompting...
...last decade and a half, the industry has been essentially reborn as it has rushed to embrace the global market. The old monopoly has gone, and producers have replaced over 40% of the nation's vines - ripping[an error occurred while processing this directive] out the white grapes long favored for domestic consumption and planting a wide range of reds for export. And they've learned the hard way how to improve marketing and respond to changing world demand. At the Simonsig winery in Stellenbosch, the Malan family has been making wine for more than 300 years. But it quickly...