Back in the day the beverage of choice for Tour de France riders famously used to be a bottle of red wine. They may have been on to something, a recent review suggests.
An Italian team has described a method to produce micronised powders and extracts enriched with polyphenols obtained from agricultural waste, offering environmental as well as metabolic health benefits.
Health and wellness powerhouse Swisse plans to roll out dietary supplements and skincare products containing upcycled grape seed extract derived from Australia’s wine-producing industry.
The growing snack company – a phoenix rising from the devastating California wildfires in 2017 – dries wine grapes (and sometimes coats them in chocolate) to create a fruit snack with more antioxidants than their traditional counterpart.
The first ever artificial intelligence analysis of 5mn hectares of Australian vineyards using satellite imagery has found that the total number of vine rows will wrap around the world 11 times.
Scientists have identified genes expressed in grapevine roots that limit the amount of sodium that reach berries – a discovery that could ‘significantly accelerate’ the breeding of more robust salt-tolerant grapevines.
The slight increases in temperature in Mediterranean regions could potentially result in labor, productivity and economic losses for European wineries, suggests a new study.
SITEVI 2013, the International Exhibition for the vine and wine, fruit and vegetable, and olive-growing sectors, opened this week in Montpellier, France from November 26-28.
Scientists at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute have developed an optical sorter that they claim can significantly improve the quality of wine grapes and thus wines such as Riesling.
A combination of maltodextrin and arabic gum reduces degradation and protects the pigments of anthocyanins added to isotonic soft drinks, finds new research.
Wine grape production is projected to increase by over 5 per cent
to 1.93 million tonnes over the two years to 2006-07, according to
a new report that goes against industry opinion that slowing
exports could lead to a red wine glut.
