Introduction Research on wine tourism, both supply and demand sides, has been expanding rapidly (Carlsen & Charters, 2006). Within the literature on demand for wine and wine tourism, generational (age) differences relating to wine consumption and tourism have emerged as an important issue. This is partly because older consumers and tourists have obviously been dominant, but both wine and touris...

Wine tourism has emerged as a strong and growing area of special-interest tourism in ‘New World’ wine countries in particular, and represents an increasingly significant component of the regional and rural tourism products of these countries. The development of wine routes throughout Europe, and increasingly in ‘New World’ wine countries, provides the link between wine and tourism. South Africa...

UNLABELLED Regionally distinct wine characteristics (terroir) are an important aspect of wine production and consumer appreciation. Microbial activity is an integral part of wine production, and grape and wine microbiota present regionally defined patterns associated with vineyard and climatic conditions, but the degree to which these microbial patterns associate with the chemical composition o...

I much prefer drinking wine to writing about it. I was prompted to write about it by an experience I often have when I offer a good wine to a novice. They will say something like, “Don’t waste that on me. I don’t know anything about wine,” implying that they will not be able to enjoy the wine. This raises the obvious question of whether and, if so, to what extent, knowing about wine is necessar...

This study was performed to investigate the effects of adding a dual starter on the chemical and sensory characteristics of red wine made of Campbell Early grape. The yeast starter, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) starter, Oenococcus oeni, were used for inoculation in the winemaking process for alcoholic and malolactic fermentation (MLF), respectively. After 200 days in...

Extended Abstract Over the last decade, the consumption of wine on the world market remains more or less stable, declining in Europe and slightly increasing in Asia. Consumers-neophytes present more than 50% of wine buyers; an average consumer becomes less and less predetermined in its purchase and thus more sensitive towards advertising and promotion campaigns. Occasional versus traditional wi...

the wine poetry is a conscious art which consists of the material and the meaning for the arabs. the famous arabian poets were: al-aktal, abu nowas, ibn el foriz. the wine poetry was an independent section in the persion poetry. the persions poets took that from the arabic poetry and described it as a material and as a meaning. they created many different methods to present it. rodaki, manochah...

BACKGROUND Wine appears to be a significant trigger for asthma. Although sulfite additives have been implicated as a major cause of wine induced asthma, direct evidence is limited. Two studies were undertaken to assess sulfite reactivity in wine sensitive asthmatics. The first study assessed sensitivity to sulfites in wine using a single dose sulfited wine challenge protocol followed by a doubl...

Background: Recent concerns have been raised regarding heavy metal content in wine and its potential health implications. The goal of this study was to determine if lead (Pb) intake poses a health risk among adult consumers of wine. This was achieved by performing a literature review of studies reporting Pb concentration in United States and international wines, determining adult wine consumpti...

BACKGROUND Reduced lipoprotein oxidizability by red wine phenols has been proposed as the basis for a relatively lower incidence of coronary heart disease in red wine drinkers. We showed previously that caffeic and protocatechuic acids isolated from red wine exhibit antioxidant activity in vitro. However, there is no information in the literature on the absorption of these compounds after red w...