Winexpression

Since all of the buzz this week seems to be on Apple’s release of the much anticipated iPhone, I thought a nice roundup of worthwhile wine videos would be appropriate. We’re not talking about those boring let’s open a couple bottles of wine and give our opinion on them type of shows, so here you […]

President Vladimir Putin of Moscow met last week with Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin, and agreed to lift the ban that had been placed on Moldova’s wine.  This ban, which was imposed on March 25th, 2006, had a huge impact on the Moldovan wine industry, which relied on Russia for 60 - 80% of it’s exports. […]

How do those wine tasting professionals identify all those flavors in wine you ask? The answer is simple: they learned, and you can learn too, simply by drinking wine. Note a recent study by researchers at Northwestern University who aimed to learn how the brain differentiates between similar smells and modifies and updates that information […]

Researchers at the University of Pittsburg have made a surprising discovery. Cyanidin-3-rutinoside, or C-3-R, a modified anthocyanidin found in wine, as well as different fruit and vegetables, targets and kills leukemia cells, but doesn’t harm healthy cells. This is an attractive alternative to fighting leukemia over chemotherapy and radiation which kill healthy cells as well.
Leukemia […]