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Christmas Comes But Once A Year

Mistletoe and (a large) wine: seven-fold increase in wine glass size over 300 years

14 Dec 2017

Our Georgian and Victorian ancestors probably celebrated Christmas with more modest wine consumption than we do today – if the size of their wine...

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Wine glasses at The Pint Shop

Larger wine glasses may lead people to drink more

07 Jun 2016

Selling wine in larger wine glasses may encourage people to drink more, even when the amount of wine remains the same, suggests new research from the...

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Investing from the heart

23 May 2014

Cars, art, wine and watches: emotional assets are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to traditional investments. But while the returns may...

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Wine prices outperformed art, stamps and bonds throughout 20th century

21 May 2014

New research reveals that investors who have so far left wine out of their portfolio may want to think again.

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Pouring red wine into a glass

Wined and defined

28 May 2012

At a lecture tomorrow, Professor Steven Shapin will decant some of the terminology of wine-tasting and look at the ways in which our relationship...

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13 - grapes

Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes

17 Dec 2009

Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants, but despised by noblemen, during the Middle Ages was the mother...

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Frowned Upon

Greeks uncorked French passion for wine

23 Oct 2009

Professor Paul Cartledge finds that the Greeks, a people rarely known for their wine-making skills, nevertheless laid the foundations for the...

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