Day: 26 January 2009

An oddity of the wine trade is the annual migration of the Burgundy winemaking fraternity to London for tastings of their most recent releases. The keen taster could go to several events every day and sample almost every vineyard site in the region, probably from several growers. Jancis Robinson took a measured view of the […]

First we cracked DNA. Now we’ve cracked the genome construction of yeast. A recent re-print of this story, the original study being reported back in October, got me thinking. It goes without saying that we, as drinkers, often gloss over the finer points of the winemaking process, for the most part happy to imbibe in […]