Wines & Vines back issues from February 1995:
Moderation and mortality. (health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption)
Feb 01, 1995; ... New data from England's prestigious Oxford University provides important new evidence that moderate ethanol consumption can favorably increase the odds of living longer. Results of a 13-year follow-up of 12,000 male British physicians finds that moderate drinkers not only had fewer deaths ...
Wise & otherwise. (developments in Northern California vineyards) (Column)
Feb 01, 1995; ... This being our Annual Vineyard Issue, it's appropriate to comment on the rain that, as I word process, is coming down in Northern California (at least). Press reports would have the uninformed believe that the "wine country" (small portions of Napa and Sonoma counties) was devastated by ...
Billy Wayne Bung. (health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption)
Feb 01, 1995; ... A few weeks ago my insurance agent called and suggested this would be a good time to double the size of my life insurance policy, as it was nearing the end of the year and he had a quota to meet. I appreciated that call because I figure if the insurance company wants to put more money on me, ...
East Coast wine shipments seized. (seizure due to licensed beverage regulations)
Feb 01, 1995 ... Wine allegedly illegally shipped to the East Coast was seized by New Jersey liquor authorities last December, and, later in the month, authorities in Maryland and Pennsylvania confiscated similar shipments. The wine, valued at $100,000, was from Sonoma County wineries and was shipped by ...
Database & the vineyard. (includes related articles)
Feb 01, 1995; ... As part of a major mapping of vineyard resources, The Carneros Quality Alliance (CQA) has completed a rootstock-budwood survey of 63 growers and 6,389 acres of vineyards in the Carneros American Viticultural Area of Napa and Sonoma counties.The survey, called the Carneros Plant ...
"Green grafting" in California. (vineyards)
Feb 01, 1995; ... Nearly a half-decade into the deep throes of replanting because of phylloxera, wineries now can add the nurseryman to a growing list of integral personnel.Additionally, out of economic and technological necessity, that nursery may be operating a fully-functional, on-premise ...
Harvest 1994. (A Wines & Vines Special Report)
Feb 01, 1995; ... Cold in New York's Finger Lakes to a long growing season in California's North Coast highlighted the 1994 grape season in the United States.This issue spotlights the harvest in America's vineyards for last year, from Arkansas to Texas to California, and parts in between. ...
Wine World's Steinhauer. (Wine World Estates; Bob Steinhauer)
Feb 01, 1995; ... Something of a back-door, trick question: Everybody knows (or can guess) who California's largest grower is (think small family winery in Modesto), but who knows which outfit handles the second largest winegrape acreage in the Golden State?Gallo is listed at 9,277 acres, while Wine ...
The Philippine market. (wine imports)
Feb 01, 1995; ... The surprise devaluation of the peso by the new Mexican government in December should put astute international wine traders in a holding pattern as far as Mexico is concerned. As of early January, the peso had fallen in value by 40% while floating against the U.S. and Canadian dollars. Your ...
Success with Seyval. (John Hofherr's 1993 production of St. James Seyval blanc)
Feb 01, 1995; ... When John Hofherr returned to the family winery - St. James Winery in Missouri - in 1988 after five years as the assistant winemaker at Jekel Winery in Monterey County, Calif., he thought he could go anywhere and make wine out of anything."I thought I was one hot winemaker," he ...
Barriers to wine. (cultural and social barriers)
Feb 01, 1995; ... Attitude to wine and for that matter to all alcoholic beverages is driven more by emotions than reasoned intellectual judgments. All the discussions you will hear today will give you cogent arguments why you should drink wine for your health, why wine should be made more easily available, ...
Check out Simi newsletter. (Simi Winery Inc.)
Feb 01, 1995; ... There are many winery newsletters that make a pass at offering information on wine and food, sometimes useful, sometimes not. But flat out one of the best I've come across is the Fall/Winter 1994 Simi News, published by Simi Winery in Sonoma County and edited by Nancy Gilbert. ...
Looking backward into the future. (problems in winemaking)
Feb 01, 1995; ... There was little of interest in the February, 1925 issue, it being filled with descriptions of the rarer table grape varieties (e.g., Gros Colman) and the disputations of growers over various matters relating to shipping. The car shortage did seem to be over but one of the biggest bones of ...
The back page. (trends in the wine industry)
Feb 01, 1995; ... Our wine industry in this country is amazing. As that observant Englishman, H.G. Wells, said, "You Americans have the loveliest wines in the world, you know, but you don't realize it." Fifty years later nothing has changed. With a wine consumption figure of less than two gallons per capita ...