AltWeeklies Wire
Pairing Your Music with Your Winenew
The music you listen to while drinking really can significantly affect the taste of wine. Researchers in the Applied Psychology department at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh have found that, in fact, certain music really does go with certain wine.
Isthmus |
Anne Strainchamps |
06-17-2008 |
Food+Drink
Holistic Vineyards: Biodynamic Wine is Greenernew
Critics call it "vineyard voodoo"; others refer to it as "supercharged organic." In fact, biodynamic agriculture dates back to 1924, when Austrian philosopher-scientist Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures in which he argued that modern farming had lost its spiritual connection to nature.
Isthmus |
Anne Strainchamps |
05-19-2008 |
Food+Drink
Hooray for Chardonnaynew
The oft-derided wine is still ready for its close-up.
Isthmus |
Anne Strainchamps |
03-24-2008 |
Food+Drink
Beaujolais Nouveau is Little More Than a Noveltynew
The annual release of Beaujolais nouveau on the third Thursday in November, coupled with several decades of aggressive marketing, has made the wine a Thanksgiving tradition in the U.S. -- and that's a shame, because although it has some value as a novelty, it's a thin and insubstantial drink.
Isthmus |
Anne Strainchamps |
11-27-2007 |
Food+Drink
