Month: March 2022

Researchers from Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine found evidence linking moderate alcohol consumption during meals with a lowered risk of type 2 diabetes. The team presented preliminary research at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Health Conference earlier this month. “The effects of alcohol consumption on health have
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2022 is shaping up to be a big year for acclaimed Alsace-born, New York-based chef and restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten, who is expanding his restaurant group within the United States and to Japan and Monaco. Following a late 2021 entry into Nashville, he reopened Jean-Georges Philadelphia, a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence winner in the Four Seasons
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More than two decades ago, Wine Spectator editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken was granted a rare interview—the first and last of its kind—with the famously private Ernest Gallo, co-founder and chairman of what was then and continues to be among the world’s largest wine companies. The interview, at Gallo’s home in Modesto, Calif., nearly
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A new study has added to the evidence that moderate wine drinking could protect your mind as you age. The report by researchers at Penn State University, Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and other institutions found that the consumption of flavonoids—polyphenolic compounds found in plant-based foods, including grapes and wine—could lower mortality
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Difficult, expensive wine projects have exerted a lifelong gravitational pull on Pablo Álvarez Mezquíriz—one that has not weakened with time. Two years shy of his 70th birthday—the date he has promised to step down as chief executive officer of his Vega Sicilia Spanish wine empire—Álvarez just announced he is building a new winery in Galicia,
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You don’t have to spend a lot of money to get good wine. In this episode, I taste six wines that received 90 points from critics like James Suckling, Wine Spectator, and Robert Parker (The Wine Advocate) under $20. Wines featured in this episode: Giesen, Sauvignon Blanc 2020 https://share.exoticwinetravel.com/giesensauvignonblanc Vivonne, Côtes du Provence 2020 The
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