Word: wined
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...heyday, I would often drink even when I knew it was a terrible idea--and the urge was hardest to resist when I was with my drinking buddies, hearing the clink of glasses and bottles, seeing others imbibe and smelling the aroma of wine or beer. The researchers at McLean have invented a machine that wafts such odors directly into the nostrils of a subject undergoing an fMRI scan in order to see how the brain reacts. The reward circuitry in the brain of a newly recovering alcoholic should light up like a Christmas tree when stimulated...
European producers are feeling the competitive pressure from surging "New World" wines: Over the past decade, U.S. wine exports have leapt 160%, Australia's by 500%, Chile's by 270% and South Africa's by 770%. And, at the same time, European domestic consumption is declining by about 0.65% a year...
...have been pouring taxpayers' money into distillation schemes [to convert unsold wine to industrial alcohol] while New World wine-producers have been running rings round us," E.U. Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said last week. "Clearly, we must take a different approach to helping Europe's excellent wines punch their weight around the world more consistently...
Europe accounts for about half of the world's total wine consumption and two thirds of its production. European wine-making employs around 1.5 million people, and annually generates about $22 billion. But imports have been growing by about 10% a year, and could soon exceed exports, while revenues per wine farm in Europe have declined by an average of 12% between...
Previous attempts at reform, however, have been met with hostility by the governments of Europe's wine-producing countries. And in the face of the inevitable backlash, the question is whether Fischer Boel will be able to drain the lake, or merely decant...