Airline wines, bottle-a-day, arson, bands – sipped and spit
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SIPPED: airline wines comparison
Your last wine experience onboard plane may have amounted to little more than “red or white?” USA Today asked wine writer Dan Berger to analyze 33 wine lists. It’s no surprise that foreign carriers far surpass American ones. Berger taps Qantas the best list overall and Air New Zealand with the best offerings in coach. In an upgrade that would be great to see more widely, the Japanese carrier ANA will soon make the wines poured in business class available for purchase in coach.
SIPPED: Alcohol!
A research team lead by Larraitz Arriola found that male subjects consuming the most alcohol had the lowest rates of heart disease! A bottle a day keeps the doctor away? Not quite: Arriola et al. caution that alcohol also causes 1.8 million deaths a year. [WebMD; Bloomberg; Heart]
SPIT: arson
Mark Anderson admitted guilt in starting a blaze at a wine warehouse that torched six million bottles. [SFgate.com]
SIPPED: brands for bands
Forget record labels, now bands of the 60s (well, and the Stones, who keep on going) are rolling out wine labels. [Newsday]
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On November 23rd, 2009 at 12:02 pm ,jim boyce wrote:
This has so much potential. I vote for Herman and the Hermitage.
Cheers, Jim
On November 24th, 2009 at 8:58 pm ,Dylan wrote:
Goodbye resveratrol, hello funnel.
On November 25th, 2009 at 6:04 am ,J. Boyce wrote:
Can’t resist. Another possible wine from a 60s music icon…
Aretha Cabernet Franklin
Cheers, Jim
On November 25th, 2009 at 8:12 am ,The Wine Mule wrote:
Moby Grape.
These guys definitely deserve a label.
On November 26th, 2009 at 10:10 am ,J. Boyce wrote:
Also, “Peaches and Herb” – the band’s name could double as tasting notes.
Cheers, Jim