life style - "wine"

Wine Pick: 2007 Bergevin Lane Columbia Valley Calico White $16

This recipe is a fusion between a Thai marinade and Caribbean style salsa. I am allergic to onions so there are none in this recipe, but some can be added to taste I would suggest either green onions or some sort of sweet onion. This recipe uses some unique tomatoes and bell peppers but just about any tomatoes and bell peppers can be used. Sweet bell peppers and sweet tomatoes seem to have the best flavor combination. I also use half a Pablano pepper but hotter pepper can be substituted to kick up the spice.Regular lime juice can also be substituted for the Key Lime juice but it will lack a bit of the flavor intensity. I like very chunky salsas, but this could be made finer. -- posted by Cooking_with_wine

Why are dessert wines so expensive? Is it the producers simply trying to create a cache, a luxury item just like those rosé champagne producers? The production techniques are pretty standard and really, just like pink champagne, shouldn't command a premium.Perhaps because they are so expensive, people simply do not purchase them in quantities required to grasp a profit. But wouldn't reducing the price entice people to buy more?As an example, this half bottle of sweet Muscat costs £6.99. A full bottle therefore would retail at around £12. Why so expensive? Many would baulk at paying this for a Sunday splash out wine let alone a simple, dessert wine. One that also happened to be the cheapest off the dessert wine shelf at my local supermarket. With long lived, small production, wines such as Sauternes the high prices are comprehendable; but for a relatively simple, are I say bog-standard, wine...?Don't misunderstand; it's a nice enough wine. I just ponder the elevated price.

The Castel Group, France's largest wine producer, is starting wine production in Ethiopia.

A COUPLE OF WEEKS ago, I gave you my recommendations for red wines that are suitable companions for grilled meat and poultry.

By Will DunhamWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A natural compound found in red wine may protect the heart against the effects of the aging process, researchers said on Tuesday.In their study, mice were given a diet supplemented with the compound known as resveratrol starting at their equivalent of middle age until old age.These mice experienced changes in their gene activity related to aging in a way very similar to mice that were placed on a so-called calorie restriction diet that slows the aging process by greatly cutting dietary energy intake.

How, scientists wonder, do the French get away with a clean bill of heart health despite a diet loaded with saturated fats? The answer to the so-called 'French paradox' may be found in red wine.

From the smallest growers to the biggest houses, the standards of grape-growing and winemaking in Burgundy have surpassed anybody's expectations.

By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:45 PM on 03rd June 2008 Red wine may be the next best thing to the fabled elixir of youth, new research suggests.