Wine preference may reveal aspects of your personality

Your preference in wine (and other tastes) can reveal aspects of your personality. This is according to recent research which for instance found that a preference for sweet wine was linked to a higher level of impulsiveness.
Scientists say your preference for sweet or salty tastes could also reveal an aspect of your personality.
Their results revealed [...]

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Chill that wine

Wine is like revenge. Both are best served cold. But just how cold?How cold the wine should be depends on type -red, white or pink – plus grape variety, flavour profile, quality level and even where it was made.
Americans and South Africans are generally faulted for serving red wine too warm and white wine too [...]

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Different drinks have different hunger implications

According to a recent study the type of alcohol you consume may determine how hungry you feel afterwards. In other words, the intensity of your “munchies” is different for wine, beer or spirits.
A recent study shows that while alcohol has a specific effect on the body, the additional nutritional content of white wine, red wine [...]

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Celebrity bad hair days

We all have bad hair days, but some of these celebrities take it to a whole new level. We give them credit for being brave enough to sport completely unnatural hair colors and wacky haircuts — but at the same time we wonder what they were thinking.
Check out their worst hairstyles to date … then [...]

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Music can enhance the taste of wine

Playing a certain type of music can enhance the way wine tastes, research by psychologists suggests.
The Heriot Watt University study found people rated the change in taste by up to 60% depending on the melody heard.
The researchers said cabernet sauvignon was most affected by “powerful and heavy” music, and chardonnay by “zingy and [...]

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Retail Therapy: Does Sadness Mean Spending?

We may be willing to spend more when we’re feeling down, new research suggests.
It’s a practice so common it has come to be called retail therapy. And in a recent study, researchers uncovered evidence of what shopaholics have known for years — that people may be willing to spend more on themselves when they’re feeling [...]

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Hollywood marriages last longer than the average

Who says that Hollywood marriages are always short? After looking over the celebrity divorces that were either filed or finalized in 2008 the average were calculated and compared to the American average. Divorcing celebrities stayed together longer than the national US average.
It’s easy to say that actors, sports stars, and musicians are vacuous, self-centered egotists [...]

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Great Wine Quotes

Wine and socialising go hand in hand. A dinner party that does not have wine as a part of the drinks seems to be incomplete. So popular is wine amongst people that many of the great personalities; like Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare and even Homer Simpson, have written or said great quotes about it. Here’s [...]

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McMerlot- US fast food chains adds wine to menus

American Fast food restaurants are adding wine to their menus in a bid to boost their sales. I wonder if a “McMerlot” will work in SA?
Burgerville, a 39-unit chain in the United States’ Pacific Northest, recently put wine and beer on the drinks list at one of its restaurants in Vancouver, Washington, a municipality close [...]

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Wine serving tips

Wine enhances the flavour of the food, makes the table look nice and can liven up a meal. But many people find it confusing. There are too many choices, it requires a special tool to open, and there’s the whole culture around wine supposedly dictating what goes with which food and what’s cool to drink.
Here’s [...]

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