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No More Sour Grapes: Israeli Wine Comes of Age
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- During the traditional Seder meal, which marks the Passover holiday, Jews all over the world drink four cups of wine as they retell the story of the exodus from Egypt. In the U.S. -- and, of course, Jerusalem -- much of this wine will be kosher and from Israel. For many years, kosher wine from Israel was more similar to cough syrup than to anything you might actually want to drink. Most Israeli wineries produced sweet, sacramental wine for Seder, or the traditional Sabbath meal, which includes a blessing over wine. That kind of wine is still produced and sold in Israel today. ...
Beverage Company Creates Beef Salad Water
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsIt's a brand-new year and many of us have resolved to eat more salad. And keeping that vow may easier than ever, since now there's a way to drink your greens, not just chew them. New Yorker Till Krautkraemer is the founder of MeatWater, a beverage company that creates hearty -- and obviously meaty -- meal supplement drinks in highly unusual flavors like cheeseburger, barbecued chicken wings and Italian sausage. To ring in the new year and toast to a healthier lifestyle, Krautkraemer has just released four new offbeat offerings that are vegan-friendly and devoid of animal ...
Vince Neil to Serve Time for DUI: His Unusual History With Alcohol [VIDEO]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsWill he be singing the "Bad Boy Boogie" while behind bars? A Los Angeles judge has sentenced Motley Crue singer Vince Neil to two weeks in jail following his drunken driving arrest last summer. Neil was pulled over in his Lamborghini in September and found to have a blood alcohol level above the legal limit. As part of his sentence, the rocker known for his excesses will also serve two weeks of house arrest. This is not the first DUI on Neil's rap sheet. In late 1984 he was involved in a crash that killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas Dingley and injured two others. Officials said Neil's ...
Was 4100 BC a Good Year? World's Oldest Winery Found
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsWine lovers' quest for the perfect, full-bodied red is apparently older than anyone realized. In a cave complex in Armenia, archaeologists from the University of California have unearthed what they believe is the world's oldest winery, from 6,100 years ago. Inside the cave, Copper Age vintners are believed to have stomped grapes with their feet, then fermented the juice in huge clay vats, storing it in jars and then drinking it from cups carved from animal horns. That equipment, plus fossilized grape seeds and skins, was still buried there when UCLA archaeologists stumbled into the cave in ...
Nouveau Day Dawns for Beaujolais
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- In America, the fourth Thursday of every November may be some kind of turkey and pumpkin affair, but for wine enthusiasts worldwide, the third Thursday in November has an entirely different significance. Or rather, enthusiasts of a certain kind of wine. Early today, thousands of people uncorked the 2010 batch of Beaujolais Nouveau, a light red on the sweet side made from the Beaujolais region of France. French law stipulates that the wine cannot be sold until one second after midnight on the third Thursday in November, so distributors race to distribute the year's vintage ...
Drunk as a Skunk? 5 Most Famous Soused Animals
By Anna Rothschild - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- A troop of baboons on a bender has been causing a ruckus in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, and around the Web due to their unruly behavior. After feasting on the sauvignon blanc grapes fermenting in the sun in Cape Town's wine country every day for the past few weeks, the bacchanalian horde has destroyed property, pelted a child with fruit and killed a Great Dane. Schalk van Zuydam, AP Baboons run past a vineyard on the Constantia Uitsig wine estate on the outskirts of Cape Town in March. Baboons are already accused of car-jacking Cape Town tourists in search of food. ...
Grape-Eating Baboons Leave Vineyard High and Dry
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(Aug. 30) -- Some aggressive baboons are giving a South African vineyard a hangover. The baboons have grown to love the grapes used to make wine at Groot Constantia, the nation's oldest vineyard, in Cape Town's wine region. Dozens of the marauding creatures strip the grapes off the vines every day, then retreat into the mountains for the night, The Telegraph reported. Some pass out after eating fallen grapes that have fermented in the sun, the newspaper said. Schalk van Zuydam, AP Baboons run past a vineyard on the Constantia Uitsig wine estate on the outskirts of Cape Town in ...
Studies: Women Who Use Alcohol, Birth Control Pills Gain Mental Edge (or Not)
By Jordan Carr - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- Are you looking for a way to gain a mental edge in life? Do you want to have an advantage in every intellectual challenge that life brings your way? Are you a woman? If so, the answers lie in alcohol and sex, say two new studies! Except really they don't. Let's back up for a second. We'll start in Norway, where research on participants in what's known as the Tromsř Study has shown that women who drink moderately -- at least four glasses over two weeks -- performed better on a range of cognitive function tests than non-drinkers. Does this mean that the scientists have zeroed in ...
For Birds, San Diego Zoo Is a Barrel of Fun
By Larry Knowles - AOL News(July 7) -- As far as the San Diego Zoo is concerned, wine barrels are for the birds. Literally. The zoo's Wild Animal Park has put out a call for used wine barrels because its population of hornbills breeds successfully in them. The request, posted last week on the San Diego Zoo's donations page (alongside calls for a "pelican handycam" and "baby rhino beetle bassinet"), is part of the zoo's efforts to replenish its barrel supply for its 16 species of the big-beaked birds. ...
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