Below The Beltway

It seems wine is becoming more popular in China:
More and more Chinese drink wines, because it’s fashionable and a kind of social status,” said Zhou Ning, market strategy manager of a Beijing-based real estate company whose ads often feature young couples drinking wine or beautiful women lounging with a glass of wine. “We include wine [...]

Last night, Kellie and I had dinner at this new restaurant attached to the Renaissance Hotel on 9th Street in D.C. and had a great night. It was another one of the Tastings Journal events that I wrote about earlier this month.
There really isn’t anything bad I can say about last night. The atmosphere was [...]

The New York Times has an interesting article about the ways in which people who really, really like wine have utilized technology to catalog their collection:
JAMES CHARLTON owns about 400 bottles of wine, and he is beginning to lose track of his collection, which is split between his home in New York and his weekend [...]

It turns out that there’s more evidence that moderate drinking may be good for you:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Men with high blood pressure are usually advised to avoid alcohol, but U.S. and Dutch researchers said Tuesday that a drink or two every day may reduce their chances of a heart attack.
The study of 11,000 men supports [...]

It seems that drinking alcohol may extend your life:
Moderate drinking may lengthen your life, while too much may shorten it, researchers from Italy report. Their conclusion is based on pooled data from 34 large studies involving more than 1 million people and 94,000 deaths.
According to the data, drinking a moderate amount of alcohol ? up [...]

For reasons I never quite figured out, fadish wine drinkers took a throwaway line in the movie Sideways, sales of Merlot wine have declined steadily. In the New York Times, Eric Asimov writes that this may not have been an entirely bad thing:
[I]f the merlot retreat causes growers and producers to reassess what they were [...]

Scientists have identified a substance in red wine that may explain why French wine drinker are not only healthy, but live longer:
Scientists have found another clue to explain why red wine may be good for you, identifying substances in vin rouge that appear to be associated with increased longevity in parts of France.
Researchers have long [...]

This will be the last post of the day, and likely the last until sometime on Sunday, so Happy Thanksgiving everyone. In case you’re interested, my wine recommendations from last year still stand, so go out, buy some, and enjoy.
In the meantime, courtesy of one of my fellow Liberty Papers bloggers, here is a great [...]

Yet more evidence that red wine is good for you:
A component of red wine recently shown to help lab mice live longer also protects animals from obesity and diabetes and boosts their physical endurance, researchers reported yesterday.
The new research helps confirm and extend the possible benefits of the substance, resveratrol, and offers new insight into [...]

Last year at about this time, the U.S. Supreme Court released its opinion in Granholm v. Heald, where it struck down laws which prevented wineries from shipping wine to customers who lived in states other than where the winery was located. Or so it seemed at the time. As Stephen Bainbridge writes today at [...]