Tag: Wine

  • Nation & World

    How to think like a gourmand

    A new Harvard Business School paper says that the best way for food enthusiasts to perform like expert tasters isn’t by memorizing flavor profiles or logging more hours over the spit bucket. Instead, it involves letting go of buzzwords and making taste a visual experience.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    As climate changes, so will wine grapes

    Though vineyards might be able to counteract some effects of climate change by planting lesser-known grape varieties, scientists and vintners need a better understanding of the wide diversity of grapes and their adaptions.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Warmer weather, finer wines

    By examining more than 500 years of harvest records, researchers found that wine grape harvests across France, on average, now occur two weeks earlier than in the past, largely due to climate change. While earlier harvests are normally associated with higher quality wines, researchers caution the trend likely won’t last.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Wine watcher

    Harvard biologist Elizabeth Wolkovich is studying wine grape phenology and changes that might be needed in a warming world.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Ecologies of value

    Radcliffe Fellow and anthropologist Heather Paxson is studying small artisanal cheese operations as “ecologies of production” that are both commercial and moral.

    5 minutes