Despite their bad reputation, mold, yeast, and fungus are responsible for some of the tastiest things in our lives, such as blue cheese, bread, pizza crust, soy sauce, miso, and of course mushrooms ...
This iconic white wine from Bordeaux is surprisingly versatile. Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to ...
It was certainly the toast to the gods when then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visited the Vatican and presented Pope Benedict with a Noble One six pack in 2009. It was widely known that the pontiff was a ...
Sauternes producer Château d’Arche is claiming a first in identifying the development of Botrytis before the first visible signs emerge, allowing it to release a modern dry white expressing the ...
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This file picture taken on October 22, 2014 in the Chateau Doisy Daene in Barsac, near Bordeaux, southwestern France shows grapes covered by botrytis cinerea, a bacterium which concentrates noble ...
This cluster of naturally white-skinned grapes shows initial symptoms of "noble rot" infection, as the white grape berries turn pink. For hundreds of years, the fungus Botrytis cinerea has been key to ...