News tagged with white wines

Drought leaves mark on Chile's wines

Chile's vineyard owners are expecting a slightly different taste and aroma to the wines they produce this year as they harvest grapes during an exceptionally long drought.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shared flavor compounds show up on US menus, rare in Asian cuisines

North Americans and Western Europeans love a good mix of alpha-terpineol, 4-methylpentanoic acid and ethyl propionate for dinner, flavor compounds shared in popular ingredients like tomatoes, parmesan cheese ...

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Red wine offers clue to superconductive future

Japanese scientists at a boozy office party stumbled across a discovery they hope will help revolutionise efficient energy transmission one day: red wine makes a metal compound superconductive. ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Drinking alcohol during a rich meal slows down digestion, but doesn't increase indigestion

People can be reassured that while alcohol may slow down digestion after a rich calorific meal, enjoyed by many during the Christmas season, it will not cause indigestion symptoms such as heartburn, belching and bloating, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Red, White Wine, Fish And Science

The long-standing rule of matching wine and food -- red wine with red meat and white wine with fish -- actually has a scientific explanation, according to two scientists working for the Mercian Corporation, ...

Chemistry / Other

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

A scientific basis the 'golden rule' of pairing wines and foods

Scientists in Japan are reporting the first scientific explanation for one of the most widely known rules of thumb for pairing wine with food: "Red wine with red meat, white wine with fish." The scientists ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The use of wooden casks or steel tanks for Chardonnay influences its fermentative aroma

After analysing different points of the process of the transformation of grape juice to wine, Ms Ana González Marco concluded that the type of container (wooden cask or steel tank) employed notably influences the fermentative ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study: White wine can make tooth stains darker

It has long been known that red wine causes teeth to stain. But white wine? A recent study by NYU dental researchers found that drinking white wine can also increase the potential for teeth to take on dark stains.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Red wine vs. white? It makes no difference when it comes to breast-cancer risk

The largest study of its kind to evaluate the effect of red versus white wine on breast-cancer risk concludes that both are equal offenders when it comes to increasing breast-cancer risk. The results of the study, led by ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drinking wine lowers risk of Barrett's esophagus, precursor to esophageal cancer

Drinking one glass of wine a day may lower the risk of Barrett's Esophagus by 56 percent, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in the March issue of Gastroenterology. Barrett's Esophagus is a p ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2