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Wine Wednesdays With William: Attack Of The Clones
Call it a "family affair." All commercial wine-producing grapevines, regardless of their variety, are produced from cuttings that are genetically identical to their original “mother” vine. But just like identical twins, they don’t always behave the same way.
In organisms such as grapevines, every time a cell divides, there's the opportunity for spontaneous change to the genetic material, and many grape varieties with an ancient...
Wine Wednesdays With William: Your Next Glass Of Wine Could Come Out Of A Keg
The next time you tap a keg, it's entirely possible that wine'll flow out. It turns out that a small but growing portion of the wine harvest is finding its way into metal, not glass, containers. Free Flow Wines dominates the business of putting wine into kegs. The company has grown by 50 percent in each of the last six years, and it's just...
Wine Wednesdays With William: Wine In A Can Is Coming To A Store Near You
In the US, the market for wine in cans is worth $15 million and growing, as it is in the UK, and Australia. Last...
Wine Wednesdays With William: A Closer Look At South Africa’s Wine Business
Every five or six months at the Wine Room, I get a call from Bob, who shows me his latest imports from South Africa....
Wine Wednesdays With William: How We Drink Wine And Where It Comes From
The United States has been the world’s leading importer of wine for the better part of a decade. Last year, Americans spent $6.2 billion...
Colin Cowie On Planning The Perfect Wedding
Colin Cowie's traveled more than 14 million miles on behalf of his clients, and he's been fortunate enough to constantly find inspiration from cultures...
Wine Wednesdays With William: A Vine Breeders’ Tale
Archaeologists agree that the birthplace of the Eurasian grapevine is in Iran and the Levant, where the greatest genetic diversity is found, and where...
Wine Wednesdays With William: The Myth Of How And Where To Store Wine
The conventional wisdom is that wine should be stored on its side, in a damp environment, to ensure the cork remains moist and doesn't...
Wine Wednesdays With William: The Man Who Invented Modern Wine
Frank Schoonmaker was a writer, importer and wine educator who dropped out of Princeton University after two years and took off for prewar Europe....
Wine Wednesdays With William: Brushing Up On Prosecco
For this week's column, let's focus on Prosecco. As you may know, it's a popular sparkling wine from northeastern Italy. There's also a village...
Wine Wednesdays With William: Words, Words, Words
Working in London in the self-indulgent 1980s, one of my morning duties was to choose the wines for the boardroom that, two hours later,...
Taking Your Horse Racing Party Across The Finish Line
I have traveled more than 14 million miles on behalf of my clients, I’ve been fortunate enough to constantly find inspiration from cultures and...
Wine Wednesdays With William: Can You Taste The Color Of Your Wine?
In The Color of Odors, a 2001 paper by Gil Morrot, Frédéric Brochet and Denis Dubourdieu, the trio describe an experiment to test whether...
Wine Wednesdays With William: Shakespeare And Sherry
In saratoga living's 20th Anniversary issue, we introduced you to native Londoner William Roach, the Wine Director at Putnam Market's Wine Room on Broadway...