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Written by PlentyMag.com
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 00:00 |
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One company's quest to turn old wine corks into new flooring. A few years ago, when Stephen Yemm and his wife set out to build a bigger house for their growing family and home-based business in Marquand, Miss., an architect recommended cork flooring for some areas of the home. Yemm immediately thought of using wine corks for his new floor. “I’ve always been saving them, but never knew what to do with them,” he says. After all, there’s a limit to how many cork bulletin boards one person can make—or use. |
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Written by Angela Ann
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Thursday, 09 April 2009 02:50 |
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Photography by Jeff Walters
Just imagine, driving an exotic sports car, maybe even a rare Enzo Ferrari through Northern California’s beautiful wine country. Then you take that fantastic driving machine for a spin on the Infineon Raceway in Sonoma.
Sounds like a dream… right? Perhaps. But this is a dream to fight a nightmare one little girl lives everyday… epilepsy. |
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Written by Angela Ann
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Wednesday, 08 April 2009 00:00 |
Sexy Wines Series
The current installment of our “Sexy Wines” series features another vino grown in the Lodi wine region of Northern-Central California.
This wine is called “The Other.” The name is short for “This, That and the Other.” This wine is estate grown by Peirano Estate Vineyards. The Peirano family has owned and operated their vineyards for over 100 years.
So why is a family winery producing a wine with a scandalous label? As you can see, the label features a sketch of the naked backside of a very attractive woman.
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Written by Willamette Valley Vineyards
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Tuesday, 07 April 2009 00:00 |
TURNER, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It just got easier for Oregon and Washington state wine consumers to recycle cork from their bottles.
Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVV) was the first winery in the world to receive certification from the Rainforest Alliance for using 100 percent Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified cork. With the new Cork Re-Harvest program, it becomes the first winery to launch a cork recycling program with zero increase to its carbon footprint.
WVV Founder and President Jim Bernau said the new program is needed to sustain the cork forests of Portugal, Spain, and other cork producing countries. Part of the program’s goal is to raise awareness of the sustainability of the Mediterranean cork forests.
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Written by Adam Hofstetter
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Monday, 30 March 2009 00:00 |
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If you're visiting a Jewish home for Passover or any other festive occastion, it might be a good idea to pick up a bottle of kosher wine. There's more to kosher wine these days than Manischewitz or Kedem; it's a rapidly growing sector of the market that includes fine wines from all over the world. The Expanding Kosher Wine Market In 2007, the "Kosher" designation edged out "All Natural" and "No Additives or Preservatives" to become the most popular claim found on new consumer food products in 2007, says Mintel's Global New Products Database, which monitors packaged goods worldwide. Still, it’s hard to find any article about kosher wine that doesn’t start off by exclaiming that “it ain’t just Manischewitz anymore.” But you may already know that sophisticated/enjoyable/delicious—even award-winning— kosher wine is being produced in regions as diverse as France, Israel, California, Australia, Spain and South Africa. Perhaps you even know, thanks to folks like Nextbook’s Sara Ivry, what makes wine kosher and when kosher wine started catching up to its nonkosher counterpart. |
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Written by Leesha McKenny
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 00:00 |
Twitter is helping sell Australian wine to the British.
Austrade, wine website Nakedwines.com and the South Australia Government put up $100,000 to buy Australian wines to be sold in Britain.
Fifty British wine drinkers were then invited to an event to taste 100 Australian wines. They were asked to use Twitter - the latest social networking trend - and live blogs to whittle the wines down to a list of 20 and to say how much they would pay for them.
Australian winemakers, via a live online auction site, were then invited to revise their prices up or down to manoeuvre for a share of the $100,000 kitty by taking advantage of the price gap.
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