All Things Wine
Resveratrol keeps getting positive reviews.
Dark chocolate and red wine have “positive components that are good for your heart”, a new study has claimed. According to Susan Ofria from Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, red wine and dark chocolate with a cocoa content of 70 per cent or higher contain resveratrol, which has been found to lower blood sugar. Red wine is [...]
Bottle Deposits Are a Tax
Most people, especially men, who grew up in the 50’s remember looking for soft drink bottles on roadsides and at neighbors. Do you remember those days? Why you ask? Because they would be redeemed at the local grocery store for $0.02 each and larger bottles were worth $0.05 each. It would not be unusual for a [...]
HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH Ma’am
Another finding that red wine is good for women.
Concrete and Wine Are Simpatico
About a year ago I wrote a story about Delia Viader of Viader Wines in Napa. I was drawn to her story because of her passion for wine, the fact that she started from scratch and she was very innovative. It did not hurt that she is a very successful winemaker. One of her innovations [...]
Biodynamic…don’t get it confused with Organic
If you are a real afficianado of the environment then Demeter Biodynamic Certification is the gold standard. In Sonoma and Napa Counties there are about 22 wineries that have a Biodynamic Certification. The count can be misleading because the Biodynamic Certification is more about the vineyards-the source of the grapes. If a winery owns vineyards [...]
Many ways to gain wine knowledge.
There are a lot of ways to become knowledgeable about wine…just be careful not to become a wine snob with all that newfound knowledge. For our website Symtrek Partners, I have been writing stories about people in Wine Country that love to talk about what they do to make great wines. What makes their stories [...]
Press Releases
Travertine Coaster: http://www.prlog.org/11626319-travertine-coaster-added-to-image-of-wine-coaster-collection.html Two Colors Quartz Coaster: http://www.prlog.org/11625043-new-elegant-stain-resistant-stone-coasters-introduced-by-image-of-wine.html
More great news for wine drinker’s
Connoisseurs of less fattening drinks such as wine may even lose weight as well as being at lower risk of developing diabetes. “Light-to-moderate alcohol intake, especially wine intake, may be more likely to protect against weight gain, whereas consumption of spirits has been positively associated with weight gain,” says the paper by researchers at Navarro [...]
When it comes to wine the good news keeps on…
Robert Mondavi really promoted the benefits of wine. Here is another benefit-minimizing sunburns.
Bird’s eye view of Napa
It takes all kinds of interesting people to make a company thrive. That same concept can apply to Wine Country. To make Wine Country an exceptional destination for a small luxury corporate meeting, it takes diverse interests and personal commitments to customers. Gabe Gundling was born in Napa, attended high school in Napa and earned [...]