Wine Helps Fight Arthritis
	The question of whether or not wine consumption is good for our health has been the subject of long and heated debates. There are those who argue that the amount and "miraculous" properties of the beneficial substances found in the millennia-old elixir outweigh the risks of regular alcohol consumption. And there are some who argue that long before healing your arthritis or keeping your heart healthy, hearty wine consumption will ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2008, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Temperature Increase Will Completely Paralyze Wine-Making in the UK by 2080
	A new study claims that if climate change continues at this rate, then by 2080 areas such as the Thames Valley, some areas in Hampshire and the Severn valley would ultimately become too hot to be able to continue wine production. The study was published today in a book written by Emeritus Professor Richard Selley from the Imperial College London. Selley believes that in the next 75 years or so, the locations in the UK used tod ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 10:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Improve Your Liver Health with a Daily Glass of Wine
	Moderate wine consumption never harmed anyone – in fact, a study carried out by UC San Diego School of Medicine shows that a daily glass of wine can be beneficial for your health, especially in combating Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. By comparison, people who never consume alcohol have double the chances of contracting NAFLD, while people drinking moderate amounts of beer and liquor are four times more likely to have the disease. [ ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 05:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New LG Wine Phone Brings Bigger Displays
	LG launched a new mobile phone under the name of "Wine", the SV390 / LV3900 model, coming after another Wine, the SV300, which hit the market in the summer of 2007. The new Wine is obviously an improved device, although it has the same clamshell form factor, and it was presented these days in ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Take Your Bike to Slovenia
	A cycling holiday may seem like a pretty far-fetched idea when you're sitting at your desk, lounging in a comfortable leather chair and typing away at your computer, however for those of you who harbor a mild interest in cycling, doubled by love for the outdoors and an even deeper love for wellness and spa treatments, a cycling holiday in Slovenia could be just what you need. This small, Central European country offers a wid ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 10:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Wine Saves the Brain
	Beer or wine? A new Swedish research carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg and published in BJS bets on the wine. Started in 1968 and made on 1,458 women, the survey revealed this alcoholic beverage protects against dementia. At the beginning of the study, the subjects rated how much wine, beer and liquor they drank on a seven-step scale from ‘never’ to ‘daily.’ If the subject said she had been dri ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Red Wine Treats You of Cancer
	French are real lover boys thanks to the consumption of red wine. Resveratrol, an antioxidant polyphenol found in red wine, red grapes and pomace (winemaking residue), has been proved by many researches to boost heart health, erection and to impede prostate cancer and tooth decay, while also hampering bacterial infections. A new Rochester study published in the journal Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology explained for t ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Wine 0.9.57 and Compiz Fusion 0.7.2 Are Out!
	Hear ye, Hear ye! Two of the most used applications for Linux systems just got out of the oven! Have some Wine 0.9.57 and taste some Compiz Fusion 0.7.2! The developers added some new "ingredients& ... [read more >>]
	07 March 2008, 11:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Amazon Winery
	The wine business has always been very profitable, as has any alcohol business, for that matter. There are always scores of people wanting to celebrate something or drown their sorrow, and alcohol in any form has been known to be one of the best ways to do that. Amazon.com, the world’s biggest online shopping web site, is looking to recruit a senior wine buyer that will be responsible for "the acquisition of a massive new [ADMARK=1 ... [read more >>]
	07 March 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Sponsors Improvements for Wine
	Last week, Dan Kegel, a software engineer at Google, posted a message to the Wine mailing list where he described a few of the improvements to Wine that Google sponsored. Kegel said that Google hired Codeweavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine, because Photoshop is one of the applic ... [read more >>]
	20 February 2008, 10:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Throws Its Weight Behind Linux Slapping Windows
	One aspect of the Linux vs. Windows face-off that has so far perpetually tilted the balance of force in favor of Microsoft's proprietary operating system is the rich ecosystem of software and hardware solutions built around the platform. The open source Linux operating system fails to enjoy similar support from the environment of hardware manufacturers and software developers as does Windows. And in this context, a clear victory is ma ... [read more >>]
	18 February 2008, 11:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Do Red Wine and Grapes Make You Sexier?
	French are real lover boys due to the consume of red wine. Resveratrol, a product found in red wine and known for its antioxidant and anticancer effects, has been proved by many researches to boost heart health, erection and to impede prostate cancer. But resveratrol, a type of polyphenol, is abundant also in red wine grapes and winemaking residue (called pomace). Now, we know why red wine consumers may live longer. But they may be sexi ... [read more >>]
	30 January 2008, 03:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Expensive Wines Trigger More Pleasure in the Brain
	A $150 pair of jeans is much better than a $30 one or is it just an illusion? You are paying in fact for the brand, but no matter what, you'll always think that more expensive stuff is better. This has got scientific support with a new research published in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. What is presented to us as an expensive wine can be perceived to taste better even if it's in fact a c ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Mystery of Pinot Noir Decoded
	A good wine does not come cheap. Usually, if you go to an European country with tradition on wines, all that is under $8 dollars per liter could be discarded. Of course, the most exquisite wines can reach hundreds of dollars and in luxury restaurants this can go further. It is said that the quality of a wine is in the soil, climate and yeast, but before all the grape strain. No wonder that a new genetic research, published in the on-li ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 02:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Some Very Old Foods
	1.Researchers were taken by surprise a few years ago when they found two wine bottles under the ruins of a London building destroyed in 1682. The cork tap of one bottle had rotten and the wine had turned into vinegar, while the other bottle was hermetically encased because of its tap fixed by wires and wax. With a special occasion of wine tasting organized by London Museum, experts tasted samples from the centuries old wine, which had been ... [read more >>]
	05 December 2007, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Square-Enix Offers You a “Wine Fantasy”
	This is not yet another installment in the neverending Final Fantasy series, but rather a new and original title that introduces you to the world of fine wine tasting. Keep in mind that we're dealing with a DS game that comes with a bottle of wine, court ... [read more >>]
	07 November 2007, 09:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Technology Tells You If a Particular Wine Will Give You Headaches!
	Let's face it. There wasn’t ‘just one glass’ too much…last night you scored a new record and you cannot even remember how you got home. And now you're saying "It’s the last time I do that!"… of course… until the next time. Now, a new device made at University of California, Berkeley, and described in the journal Analytical Chemistry, could help you avoid the tremendous hangover, more specifically the &quo ... [read more >>]
	02 November 2007, 05:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No Matter What Kind of Alcohol a Woman Drinks, This Will Destroy Her Boobs
	After small quantities of alcohol have been considered to improve heart health for such a long time, recent researches show that this also can increase the risk of breast cancer. And one of the largest individual researches focusing on the effects of alcohol reveals that it does not matter what a woman drinks: wine, beer or spirits (liquor)…there will still be a risk of breast cancer. It's all about the quantity of alcohol and havi ... [read more >>]
	28 September 2007, 14:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Red Wine Saves Men's Sexuality
	Now, we know why the French are real lover boys. And this, even at old ages. A team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has discovered that nutrients encountered in red wine could decrease the risk of prostate cancer. Even when successfully operated, the surgery of prostate cancer presents a high risk of letting the man impotent. In the new study, the UAB researchers fed male mice with a plant chemical abundant i ... [read more >>]
	03 September 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Gives The Wine Its Peppery Aroma?
	A good wine’s quality is the result of a combination between a sandy soil and the hot and dry summer, besides the grape variety. The strain of yeast used in the fermentation process can also give particular features of a top quality wine, like smell, color and flavor. Now, Australian chemists have come with the molecule that gives the red wine its peppery aroma, and which could allow wine producers to manipulate the bouquet o ... [read more >>]
	17 August 2007, 06:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's Behind Wine Poisoning?
	Doctors say that a cup of wine per day is pure health. But sometimes just one cup can send you to hospital and it's not because of alcohol abuse. A Spanish team has found that wasp venom in wine and grape juice seems to be the cause of wine poisoning, severe allergies induced by small quantities of ingested wine. The venom can enter the wine from wasps accidentally smashed along with the grapes during their initial processing for ... [read more >>]
	16 August 2007, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Determine the Age of Wine Based on Its Radioactivity!
	A good wine does not come cheap. Usually, if you go to a European country with tradition on wines, all that is under $8 dollars per liter could be discarded. Of course, the most exquisite wines can reach hundreds of dollars and in luxury restaurants this can go further. But what about a bottle of wine costing $ 160,000? This is the price paid at the London's Christie House for a bottle of Bordeaux, a 1787 Chateau Lafite ... [read more >>]
	29 June 2007, 15:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Beer, Found Healthier Than Wine
	"The beer belly" is a misnomer as the beer per se does contain many calories. But beer is indeed an appetite stimulant and its consume can lead to storing pounds. Beer also has high levels of purines, which boost the levels of uric acid in the joints, aggravating the gout. Black beer was once promoted as a rich source of iron, but just like the spinach, proved to contain only 1.1mgm of iron in every pint. So, we should[ ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2007, 14:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Red Wine Found Beneficial for Man's Sexual Health
	It's interesting that in many languages, when people toast, they make a hail for good health "Prost!" in German languages, "Salud!" in Spanish, "Sanatate" in Romanian and so on. This wishful thinking is based on the subconscious belief that the content of the glass is really beneficial for the health. Indeed, for over two decades, studies have conferred daily moderate alcohol consumption (especial ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2007, 17:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A 2,200-Year-Old Wine !
	At least some of the amphoras suspected to be 2,200-year-old dug in a Bosnia-Herzegovina swamp are believed to have carried wine, as expressed by experts on Monday. “A preliminary analysis showed amphoras, found at what are believed remains of the first-ever discovered Illyrian ships, were used for transporting wine,” has stated Snjezana Vasilj, head of a Bosnian team of archaeologists. Late in March, Vasilj's team found what ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2007, 07:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Wine Can Induce Cancer
	They say “Good wine, long life!” But a new research at Queen's University points out the fact that the notion of "natural" foods may hide a high risk for cancer. Actually, some common foods and alcoholic beverages like wine, cheese, yogurt and bread present some minute levels of carcinogens (cancer inducing compounds) and a balanced varied diet is a better choice. The team discovered that a naturally-occurring carci ... [read more >>]
	09 March 2007, 06:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

... Get Cork
	Your strategy of "conquering" a girl includes a bottle of good wine or Champaign, but have you ever wondered where does the cork come from? Cork is the product of an oak! In some coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, like Spain, France, Italy, but also in the African coast (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) and outside (Portugal) real forests of cork oaks grow. This tree can grow up to 10-11 m (30-33 ft) tall (cultivated even to 20 ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2007, 10:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia