Dr Vino's wine blog

Bottoms up!
Remember resveratrol, the naturally occurring component of red wine that promotes guilt-free gluttony and cardiovascular-improving sloth? Even though the human dosage resveratrol is the equivalent to 300 glasses of wine, red wine sales “surged” eight percent in the month after the release of the scientific studies. [WBM]

Pump me up
A wine in a New Zealand competition was stripped of its gold medal. Was it steroids? No, but it appears the wine was juiced in another way since the producer provided a “completely different” wine for the judges than is available on the supermarket shelves. [NZH] Mark Fisher wonders on his blog whether this might change the acceptability of media receiving samples too. Probably not.

Movin’ on up
“Fifteen dollars is the new $10,” a market researcher told the LA Times “We used to go in a store and say, ‘I’ll only spend $10 for a wine for dinner.’ Now it’s $15.” Grr…Must keep prices down…[LAT]

Thumbs up
Vino Volo, a wine bar that I recently visited while transiting at Washington Dulles, now has four locations. Who knew? BWI, SAC, SEA now have locations too with more on the way. But will you be able to carry the wine on board? [F&W]

Bulking up
The bigger the better, at least for blue-chip Bordeaux at auction [Decanter]

tags: wine | wine auctions | resveratrol