The world of food and wine runs on nostalgia. Wine perhaps more than food. The labels, the cellar lore, the talk of old vines and ancestral methods, the image of the vigneron out in the fog at dawn…
Taste and the Value of Nostalgia
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The world of food and wine runs on nostalgia. Wine perhaps more than food. The labels, the cellar lore, the talk of old vines and ancestral methods, the image of the vigneron out in the fog at dawn…
A team led by Penn State scientists has developed a way to chemically characterize and identify individual tannins — water-soluble compounds found in both wood and grape skins — in wine that come from oak barrels and contribute to its flavor profile.
The deeper, more inescapable force is climate change: a slow, uneven, and increasingly visible transformation of where grapes can ripen, how wines taste, and whether many classic regions can remain stylistically coherent. In regions such as Rioja, higher-altitude...