We hypothesize that quality signals improve over time with the quality performance of a wine producer, and that spillovers will affect other producers within the same region. For this purpose, we estimate a hedonic pricing model for premium California wine. Data source is the annual publication "California Wine Winners" accumulated over the judging years 1990-2001. Quality indicators for 19,583...

1. Published data on the effects of red wine, ethanol and flavonoids on endothelium-dependent relaxation are equivocal. The present study was undertaken to determine the effects of red wine, ethanol and selected flavonoids present in red wine on endothelium-dependent relaxation. 2. Aortic rings from New Zealand White rabbits were set up in organ baths (20 ml) and contracted with noradrenaline (...

Muscadine grapes (Vitis rotundifolia) are the most widely planted grapes in the south and southeast United States due to their suitability in these areas. Most of the commercial muscadine grape crop is used to produce wine. Wine made from suitable cultivars of muscadine grapes possesses a very fruity, unique flavor and aroma that appeals to many people in the South. However, muscadine grape pro...

Background: Spine grape has gained attention in the field of wine science due to its good growth characteristics. Spine grape wine has been made by local residents for a long time. However, the scientific evaluation of spine wine has not been systemically documented compared to Vitis vinifera grape wines Methods: We compared 11 spine wines from south China (W1-W11) with 7 high-quality internati...

Motivation: The wine label is an icon that unites powerful branding and fine design under a single image. With U.S. wine consumption predicted to increase to $23.8 billion by 2014, wine labels are used not only to convey a given wine’s type, producer, and origin, but also its emotional and cultural appeal. Thus, a wine label is carefully designed to convey the proper messaging of a particular b...

AIMS To study the yeast diversity of Nigerian palm wines by comparison with other African strains. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-three Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains were obtained from palm wine samples collected at four locations in eastern Nigeria, and characterized using different molecular techniques: internal transcribed spacer restriction fragment length polymorphism and sequence analysi...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.12.071 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +852 27666597; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] polyu.edu.hk (K.L. Choy), [email protected] polyu.edu.hk (C.K. Kwong), [email protected] (C. Due to the fact that wine is highly sensitive to storage conditions such as temperature and humidity, ...

More and more average users of personal computers, standard software, and web browsers come into contact with (information) visualization techniques. Depending on the task they have to perform, such visualizations are used for communication purposes, to provide a better overview of personal data, for instance pictures or emails, or to provide information of everyday commodities. After a brief o...

Real-time PCR, or quantitative PCR (QPCR), has been developed to rapidly detect and quantify the total number of yeasts in wine without culturing. Universal yeast primers were designed from the variable D1/D2 domains of the 26S rRNA gene. These primers showed good specificity with all the wine yeasts tested, and they did not amplify the most representative wine species of acetic acid bacteria a...

Wine intake is associated with a better lung function in the general population, yet the source of this effect is unknown. Resveratrol, a polyphenol in wine, has anti-inflammatory properties in the lung, its effects being partially mediated via induction of Sirtuin (SIRT)1 activity. We assessed the impact of wine and resveratrol intake, and SIRT1 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on lung f...