Mr. Graves drinks less wine today than he did before an infection left him partially paralyzed almost nine years ago.
Explaining the rise of Barcelona as a naval power to rival Italian city-states like Pisa and Genoa, he notes the balanced diet of Catalan sailors: more biscuit and cheese than the Venetians, less wine than the Neapolitans, but plenty of garlic, onions and spices to make hard biscuits more palatable.
The result is the books seem to put beer on trial much less than wine, at least high priced wine.
Easy to read and peppered with references to contemporary music, the book will no doubt appeal to the less formal wine lover, too.
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For less mature wine markets where the growth started in the mid-1990s, such as China, it was red wine that led the way.
"People still come out, but they will have a glass of wine less or maybe not at all, " he says.
They were joined by American and Australian producers more aware of profit margins than more traditional wine makers and less inclined to accept the idea of cork contamination as an inescapable act of God.
Aside from quality, Black Box offers value at compelling price points (40% less than comparable bottle of wine is a huge incentive), and with its re-closeable twist-off cap the wine lasts from four to six weeks.
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Maybe it's just because it is all so new, but the idea of using, say, reverse osmosis filters to remove water molecules and artificially concentrate wine from a rainy vintage makes wine production sound less like agriculture and more like the Rise of the Machines.
The more I researched, the less certain I became that a wine refrigerator was the best choice.
"We want to make wine fun--less intimidating, " says Stephanie Gallo, director of marketing for the privately held company and granddaughter of company cofounder Ernest.
When these data were analysed, Dr Barefoot and his colleagues found that wine-drinkers ate less saturated fat and cholesterol, smoked less, and were more active than the rest.
Some wine is produced more or less exclusively for destruction, complains Mrs Fischer Boel (herself a farmer's wife).
If I keep exercising and eating less and have just one glass of wine with dinner instead of two, maybe that will work.
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Despite this less-than-resounding praise, the wine was apparently served at Buckingham Palace as US President Barack Obama and his coterie paid a visit to the Queen.
Large pitchers and carafes of water, wine and iced tea need to be refilled less often and look formidable on any table.
Lawrence Osborne's book The Accidental Connoisseur, however, seems written more or less out of spite for everyone and everything associated with wine, as he searches to better define the notion of taste.
If more wine were finding its way into European gullets, less would be destined for the gas pumps.
As the eurozone debt crisis squeezes household spending, Europeans have less to splurge on life's little pleasures, and wine producers have felt the pinch.
The more winemakers in a single region try to focus on what makes them different from each other, the less fun winemaking is for them and, ultimately, the wine drinker.
In one experiment, they found that job candidates who ordered a glass of wine during an interview over dinner were viewed as less intelligent than those who ordered a soft drink.
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This kid-glove treatment means a wine that costs more than merlot, but a lot less than Burgundy.
You can think of it as the same wines for less money, but I prefer to look at it as more wine for the same money.
More often than not, they cared less about choosing the right match with their food than choosing a wine that came with a good story attached.
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Nandi Hills, a verdant wine-producing region 40km north of Bangalore, may be less famous than its northern sister, Nashik, but it is quickly catching up.
Some wine societies are almost as secretive, although their members are less likely to employ a special handshake than they are to break into song.
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During the first phase of the trial, the eight jurors heard more than 40 hours of evidence during the course of two weeks, then reached a unanimous verdict in less than three hours that Greenberg committed fraud when he consigned 24 bottles of counterfeit wine to Zachys Wine Auctions for sale in October 2005.
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And your two glasses of wine and chocolate-dipped strawberries will surely set the stage for a little less conversation and a little more action.
The younger wine is incredibly exotic, flamboyant, and complex, its older sibling no less powerful but slightly more restrained and refined, a little less forthcoming at this point.
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Just as Champagne, which is a place, gives its name to a wine that in France is highly regulated and may contain only three (or less) specific grapes, so it is with Chablis.
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