Red Wine Can Help Ward Off Infection?; Scandal Brewing Over a Wine Advocate Critic
"So does that mean five glasses will make me disease-free?"Photo: iStockphoto
• Yet another study about the benefits of red wine has come up with the claim that drinking two "small" glasses a night can improve your chances of warding off a cold by 40 percent. [Sun UK]
• Even though screw-caps are all the rage and actually preserve wine better than corks do, only 45 percent of wine drinkers surveyed said they would purchase a bottle with a screw-cap. Ninety-three percent said a natural cork conveyed a higher-quality wine. [PR Newswire]
• Franck DeBoeuf, son of legendary Beaujolais producer Georges, talks about running the family business and why gamay is such a wonderful grape. (It's also the only grape grown in the Beaujolais region.) [Gourmet Live]
• Earlier this week we heard that retired NBA star Yao Ming has entered the wine business, and he's now selling a 2009 Napa Valley Cabernet to the Chinese market. [Wine Spectator]
• Brush fires in the Margaret River wine region of Australia managed to spare all the grapevines, but some national park land got pretty well singed. [Decanter]
• The estate of the late Robert Mondavi, the one in Napa Valley that we told you about with the indoor pool, just sold at auction below the minimum announced price of $13.9 million. It had originally been listed for $25 million in 2010. [Napa Valley Register]
• Wine blogger Jim Budd is fomenting a wine-world scandal by claiming he has evidence that a critic for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate mag, Jay Miller, receives financial compensation for his visits to wineries in Europe. Parker is now threatening to sue. [Jim's Loire, Grey Market Report]
• Meanwhile, Parker is celebrating the ten-year anniversary of his online, subscription-based wine guide, eRobertParker.com. [MarketWatch]
