Wine Women and Chocolate

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Coppola spirits collection is inspired by wife, sister, and daughter.

Coppola spirits collection is inspired by wife, sister, and daughter.

The famous Coppola family—of whom the filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is the patriarch—is venturing further into the beverage industry with a line of liquors called “Great Women Spirits.” They already own a winery, aptly named Francis Ford Coppola Winery, through their lifestyle company The Family Coppola: Cinema, Wine, Food, Hideaways, and Adventure.

“My mother, sister, wife, daughter, and granddaughters have all inspired me, as have all of the incredible women we celebrate with Great Women Spirits,” the director explained in a statement. “We all know well the great men of history, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon and so on. I can think of as many women who distinguished themselves at that level in the fields of politics, science, mathematics, and philosophy, so my choices and reasons for this collection are very personal.”

“You know why we don’t hear about famous women in history? Because the history books were written by men,” his wife Eleanor, a documentary filmmaker, added.

The spirits collection will be “small-batch, house-crafted, classically styled spirits,” according to the statement, and will first produce gin, vodka, and brandy. The family also lays claim to an impressive process behind how the spirits are concocted explaining that they’re “proofed with the pristine spring water of Coppola’s historic Inglenook property in Napa Valley, water naturally filtered through lava rock at the base of an ancient, now inactive volcano.” The collection will officially launch on Ada Lovelace Day, October 10.

The family is clearly invested in supporting and highlighting the accomplishments of women. Coppola’s daughter Sofia is already an accomplished filmmaker in her own right, and a woman named Wendy Putman runs the wholesale operations of the family’s winery. In 2015, the family began a second vineyard called the Virginia Dare Winery, which partnered with the Sonoma Stompers baseball club to help recruit female players.

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Victoria James, one of the youngest sommeliers.

DRINK PINK On Sale: May 2, 2017)

Victoria James, one of the youngest sommeliers in fine dining, illuminates the resonance and richness of rosé in her educational, beautiful gift book, .

James provides a guide to rosé’s history and versatility.From Hemingway to the Fat Jew, she traces its cultural significance. By compiling a collection of cocktails and recipes, insider insight on wines to buy, and featuring whimsical illustrations to accompany the text, DRINK PINK is a vibrant, indispensable resource sure to quench any wine lover’s thirst.

Victoria James is now the Corporate Beverage Director of Piora and their new restaurant, Cote. Victoria’s name has appeared on many notable lists: Zagat’s “30 Under 30,” Wine Enthusiast’s “40 Under 40,” Forbes’ “10 Innovators Under 30 Shaking Up the New York Food Scene,” and Wine & Spirits’ “Best New Sommeliers.”

  With wedding season and Mother’s Day just around the corner,

this could not be a more perfect gift to purchase.

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062676207/drink-pink

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“Create Your Fate” Workshop

The “Create Your Fate” workshop is an opportunity to engage with positive energy like minded women in a learning environment that perpetuates living an empowered, joyful and meaningful life.

You will engage and learn from renowned experts about.. – How to Empower Yourself Financially – How to Excelerate Your Business/Career – How to Positively Impact Your Relationships – How Health Impacts Wealth

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Testimonials from the last workshop….

The workshops have been incredible and a God send at this point of my career/life.  Thank you so much and I’ve saved the dates for the conference!

Kind Regards,

Amanda Bar

Director of Business Development

Financial Services Professional

Raise The Bar Financial Group

You are an AMAZING woman Catherine!  Thank you so much for getting us off to a great start with your fabulous seven steps and for being such an engaging and inspiring teacher.  I also appreciate the follow up and I’m thrilled to say I am being an enthusiastic participant and totally reworked my vision board yesterday along with doing all to the steps… It’s so obvious that you walk your talk and that you are genuinely interested in supporting all women to Live, Love and Thrive! 

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Jewelry Designer

5 weeks, every Mon 7:30pm- 9pm May 1- May 29, 2017

(once you sign up, you receive location, speakers overview etc)

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Oprah and Deepak’s 21-Day Meditation. Your Wine can be enhanced by this experience.

                                               I  love these 21 day meditations,                                                       Check it out, I know you will be glad you did. It’s Free too!

You can have a glass of Wine when you’re done.

Are you tired of the “us vs. them” mentality you see in the media, in politics, and even in your own life? Starting April 10, you’ll join our global community of meditators for Oprah and Deepak’s 21-Day Meditation Experience, in which over 7 million people – from every country in the world – have participated.

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ERIN GO BRAGH

HAPPY ST. PADDY’S DAY

IRISH COFFEE

1.5 oz  IRISH WHISKY

1 oz    Brown sugar syrup (1:1 brown sugar to water, heated until dissolved)

Hot brewed coffee

Garnish:

WHIPPED CREAM…LOTS OF IT

&  I LIKE TO DRIZZLE A LITTLE FOX’S U-BET CHOCOLATE SYURP ON TOP.

I’M JUST SAYIN’

DRINK SLOWLY.

HAVE A GREAT, SAFE WEEKEND.

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Women With a Purpose Conference

 Aging Gracefully, Gratefully & Joyfully 

Please Join Us at the 3rd Women With a Purpose Conference

Meet  The I

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nspirational  Lisa Garr

Since 1999, Lisa Garr has hosted a popular syndicated radio program called The Aware Show. Based on her desire to live in a more conscious world, Lisa created The Aware Show to feature best-selling authors and experts in the fields of natural health, cutting-edge science, personal growth, and spirituality. With a background in the healing arts, she is considered an expert herself in the field of lifestyle and transformational media programming. In addition, she comes from a long line of entertainers, including her aunt, actress Teri Garr; and her grandmother, Phyllis Garr, an original Radio City Music Hall Rockette. Lisa also hosts a show on Hay House Radio called Being Aware and a series for Gaiam TV called Gaiam Inspirations. She is a regular weekend host on Coast to Coast AM, syndicated in over 500 stations around the world, and has one of the largest telesummit series on the Internet.

And

Susan Miller  Renowned astrologer speaks on “The Year Ahead 2017

Dr. Christine Horner whose 5 year crusade led to the passage of The Women’s Health and Cancer Right Act, speaks on Natural Approaches to Breast Cancer Prevention.

Susan Anton will share her life story and the philosophies that have helped her age gracefully, gratefully and joyfully.

Cathey Painter  will present  simple solutions for 2 little known age accelerating health issues affecting 95% of the population.

With Catherine Curry-Williams as your MC

Date: Sunday March 19th, 2017

Time: 9am – 3pm

Place: MountainGate Country Club

Tickets include catered lunch & cocktail party, no host bar

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Badass Female Winemaker

Erin Miller Winemaker, Twomey Cellars/Silver Oak (Napa & Sonoma Valleys, California)

As Erin Miller was preparing to go into the Peace Corps, she took a detour that would change her life.

“I was on my way to Niger, West Africa, and I wanted to work down some of my student loan debt before becoming a volunteer for two and a half years. I heard about a harvest job in Napa, and I thought, ‘What better way to earn a little money than by working 12 hours a day, six days a week as a harvest cellar rat?'” But in working that harvest job Erin discovered “the sheer joy of winemaking,” and when she returned from Africa, she pieced together her love of agriculture, the outdoors and winemaking, and determined to make her career in wine.

“The good news is that winemaking is about grit and collaboration, so the women who’ve trail-blazed in this industry, by definition, are the type to make sure the road is easier for the next generation. Now it’s my job to make incredible wine and be a mentor to the next generation.”

After earning her Masters of Science from U.C. Davis, Erin headed to France, working as a vineyard and cellar intern at Domaine de Coume del Mas in Banyuls‐sur‐mer and then Domaine Rene Lequin‐Colin in Santenay. In France Erin was taken with the concept of the “vigneron,” the idea that the winemaker is also intimately involved in the vineyard. “We tend to separate those two things here in the U.S., but I love the idea of bringing them together, of that seamless transition from vineyard and grapes to wine and ultimately, to the table.”

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An Awesome Women, Christine Horner, MD

Christine Horner, MD is a nationally known surgeon, author, and natural health expert residing in San Diego,

 She holds two board certifications: the National Board of Surgery and the National Board of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Horner was recognized as a leader in her field shortly after starting her plastic and reconstructive surgery practice because she successfully ran a national campaign to pass laws requiring insurance companies to pay for breast reconstruction following mastectomy.

Reconstruction Advocacy Project or BRA Project-led to the passage of laws in thirty-five states and a federal law. The federal bill-The Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act-was signed into law by President Clinton on October 21, 1998. The law was unprecedented because it was the first law Congress had ever passed requiring insurance companies to pay for a specific surgical procedure. Her campaign involved several meetings with President Clinton and Hillary Clinton.

Meet DR Horner at the

Women With A purpose Conference

on Sunday March 19th 2017. in Los Angeles 

for more information go to www.womenwithapurposeconference.com

In the early 1990s, Dr. Horner became alarmed over the increasing number of very young women she saw in her practice diagnosed with breast cancer. When her own mother was diagnosed and then died from breast cancer, Dr. Horner began an intensive search of the medical literature to find what-if anything-could help prevent breast cancer. What she found was a tremendous amount of little-known research proving that woman can significantly reduce their risk of breast cancer and of most other chronic diseases through natural means: eating the right foods, exercising, sleeping during the ideal hours, and using techniques of Complementary and Alternative. From that moment Dr. Horner incorporated all of these techniques into her own life and then became passionate about teaching others how to stay healthy naturally.

In effort to get this information out to as many people as possible, in 1999 Dr. Horner worked to create the first ever syndicated television news segment exclusively focused on Complementary and Alternative Medicine and natural approaches to staying healthy. It aired on WCPO-TV and then WLW-TV in Cincinnati. Dr. Horner was the host and medical editor of the segment. In 2001, the segment was syndicated on the WISDOM Television Network, reaching 5.5 million households.

In June 2002, Dr. Horner left her plastic surgery practice so that she could dedicate herself full time to writing and teaching about her passion: prevention-oriented medicine and how to become and stay healthy naturally.

Dr. Horner is a popular radio and television program guest and has appeared on numerous national television shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, FOX and Friends, CNN, and a Healthy You and Carol Alt. She has also been interviewed by Dr. Oz and Dr. Mercola. In February 1999 Glamour magazine honored her as their “WOW–Woman of the Month.” In 2000 Oprah recognized her as part of her “Angel Network” on her television program.

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A ridiculously rebellious woman.

Isabella Lucy Bird was a ridiculously rebellious woman. What other daughter of a Victorian clergyman survives a tumor on her spine and promptly decides to travel the world, have a serious romantic affair with Wild Jim Nugent in the Rocky Mountains, and visit everywhere from Vietnam to Hawaii? She had about fourteen lives in one, traveling with British soldiers in Tehran and training as a doctor as an afterthought. She used a ladder gifted to her by Morocco’s Sultan to mount her horse, and wrote 18 volumes of observations. A scriptwriter wouldn’t even know where to start.

1831 Born Boroughbridge Hall near York Father Edward Bird, mother Dora Lawson, Edward’s second wife.

1854 7 month trip to Nova Scotia, Chicago, Ontario, Boston, New York. 1856 Published ‘The Englishwoman in America’, based on the letters she wrote home during her travels.

1857 Returned to America. 1858 Father died, Isabella and family moved to Edinburgh 18– Visited Canada to see how crofters who had emigrated from Scotland were managing.

1866 Mother, Dora Bird, died. 1872 Travelled to Australia, New Zealand, Sandwich Islands (now called Hawaii) where she spent 6 months and travelled with William Green, acting British consul, by mule to Mauna Loa, highest volcano on the islands. Set sail for California, America, (her original destination) and the Rockies which she explored hazardously. 1874 Returned home from Switzerland.

1875 ‘Engaged’ to Dr John Bishop. ‘The Hawaiian Archipelago: six months among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands’ published.

1878 Went to Japan and Malaya.

1879 Returned home. ‘A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains’ from her letters home to her sister Hennie, published 1880 Her sister Hennie died of Typhoid. ‘Unbeaten Tracks in Japan’ published.

1881 Married Bishop while distraught over her sister’s death.

1883 ‘The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither’ published.

1886 John Bishop died of anaemia.

1889 Set off for India, Tibet, returning across Persia, Armenia and Turkey. On the way, travelling with a government agent Major Herbert Sawyer, she visited Basra, Baghdad, Tehran, Isfahan, and alone rode through Kurdistan to the Black Sea, took a steamer to Constantinople, arriving in Paris 25.12.1890.

1891 First women to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. ‘Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan’ published 1894 (Aged 63) set off on a 3 year trip via Canada to China, Korea, Manchuria, Russia, Korea again, China, Japan, back to Korea and China (where she sailed up the Yangtze) back to Japan, Korea and home in March 1897. ‘Among the Tibetans’ published.

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2017 Women With A Purpose Conference

Where Kindred Spirits are Thriving, Inspiring and Evolving!

Please join us for an intimate day to be enlightened, entertained, and inspired.

Aging Gracefully, Gratefully, and Joyfully

You are the journey.

Give yourself permission.

Choose beliefs that serve you. Live the Passionate,

Vibrant, and Healthy life you were meant to live.

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The Women With A Purpose Conference

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2017 Women With A Purpose Conference

Aging Gracefully, Gratefully, and Joyfully

3rd Annual Women With A Purpose Conference Los Angeles 

Where Kindred Spirits areThriving, Inspiring and Evolving!

This is an intimate day to be enlightened, entertained, and inspired.

Get your seats now, seats are limited 

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                                       World renowned astrologer Susan Miller                                   Speaks on “The Year Ahead 2017”

      Lisa Garr author of Becoming Aware and host of The Aware Show,         How One Woman Can Make A Difference

                                                Dr. Christine Horner,                                                                    Her 5 year crusade led to the passage of The Women’s Health and Cancer Right Act, will speak on Natural Approaches to Breast Cancer Prevention.

                                             Actress and Singer, Susan Anton                                                      will share her life story and the philosophies that have helped her age gracefully, gratefully and joyfully.

Cathey Painter  will present  simple solutions for 2 little known age accelerating health issues effecting 95% of the population.

With Catherine Curry-Williams as your MC

Date: Sunday March 19th, 2017

Time: 9am – 3pm

Place: MountainGate Country Club

Purchase before and get the Early Gal Special

$95 for 1 ticket

or 2 tickets for $175 

(Lunch included)

Ticket price: after midnight February 20th $125 each

http://www.womenwithapurposeconference.com/

We hope you can join us!

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Women + Holidays = Stress

The American Psychological Association ran a study designed to explore the effects of stress during the holidays, and found that women experienced a much more dramatic spike in stress levels over Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas than men.

When asked if their stress levels were higher than normal over the holidays, 44% of women said yes (as opposed to 31% of men).

When asked if they felt able to relax over the holidays, only 25% of women said yes. In contrast, 41% of men, strongly agreed that they felt relaxed during the holidays.

The APA also determined that in order to cope with stress, women most frequently turn to food for comfort (41%), and drinking as an escape (28%).

Says the APA, “Though there are not attitudinal differences between men and women in their sense of obligation towards family, there are strong behavioral differences between men and women. Women are much more likely to shoulder the work burden during family celebrations. During Thanksgiving, women are nearly twice as likely to report that they will cook (66 percent of women versus 35 percent of men), shop for food (52 percent of women versus 32 percent of men), and clean dirty dishes (70 percent of women, versus 41 percent of men). Men, on the other hand, are nearly twice as likely as women to report that they will watch football. (26 percent of women versus 46 percent of men).”

For any woman that has had to juggle holiday gift shopping, meal planning, decorating, hostessing duties, and coordinate a slew of end-of-the year holiday activities, the APA’s findings come as no surprise. The holidays, though at their core a time of family and togetherness, are also surrounded by a mad dash to get a host of chores done that typically aren’t a part of day-to-day normal life. (Thanksgiving hasn’t even happened yet, and I’m already so exhausted that I accidentally poured dog kibble in my daughter’s bowl this morning instead of cereal.)

In response to rising levels of holiday stress, magazines like Woman’s Day have published “quick fix” suggestions to help women cope with holiday stress. Their suggestions include sending e-cards instead of paper cards, stopping by the perfume counter while shopping to get a fragrance “mood boost,” and abandoning elaborate family traditions in favor of something more simple (like making pancakes for Christmas Eve, instead of an elaborate spread of appetizers). The Mayo Clinic also recently published holiday stress-relieving tips, which include deep breathing exercises, making holiday budgets, and planning ahead.

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Wine is good for your brain.... Nice to hear.

Here’s news worth toasting to: Drinking a glass of red wine every day can help keep your brain healthy down the road for as many as seven and a half extra years, reports a new study in Alzheimer’s & Dementia

Recent news from a study in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience suggests that wine is good for your brain. To me, this is not a surprise; my brain always seems to be especially perky after a glass or two of wine. But the study actually suggests that specialized training in wine might actually enhance your brain—in fact, studying wine in depth actually seems to increase the volume of the right and left entorhinal cortex, the right insula region, and in a small region in the left hippocampus known as “that funny little oval part with the bumps on it.”

The study was done, apparently, by hooking up a bunch of Master Sommeliers to MRIs and other brain-measuring widgets (hammer-and-chisel, tape measure, who knows). We are not all Master Sommeliers, it is true, but what we can learn from them (apparently) is that drinking wine and thinking about it while you do, over and over and over again, can actually make your brain bigger. While this enlargement may not necessarily help you create a disruptive technology for peeling citrus fruit that will earn you billions, it may, apparently, have some role in keeping brain degeneration at bay.

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Drink Wine, Drink water,!

What is Alkaline Water? it’s water with a pH level higher than 7.

Normal tap water typically has a pH level of 7.

Is alkaline water good for you?

Yes, alkaline water is good for you. Our water is a structured water. The water goes through an intense purification process before adding back in essential minerals. Alakline water is higher in pH levels than your tap water.

More About Tru Alka’s Process

Tru Alka, through its proprietary formula, begins with water which has been intensely purified. We then add back in minerals of calcium, magnesium and potassium.

Now here is the key…

The minerals added are NANO in proportion compared to the size of minerals that we currently drink in any water which contains these same minerals. Tru Alka uses mostly calcium along with potassium and magnesium versus a large assortment of minerals.

Does Alkaline water taste good?

The taste is awesome because the water has been pristinely purified, and the minerals that are added back now give you a smooth, silky taste that all waters should have.

Why is calcium the key to what Tru is all about?

Calcium is the key factor in all foods that are alkaline in nature. If you look at our PH food chart you will see that any food that falls into the 9 – 10 PH level that Tru does is all very high in calcium. Spinach, kale, cucumbers, celery, broccoli and of course certain berries, lemons and limes and so on are high in PH.

Testimonials

Message: I have used many types of alkaline water and this is the best all all for me It tastes great, it holds alkaline and I have never tested any bottle that was not the right pH!

Message: Received it as a gift. Love it. Feel great. Had many digestive issues and they have been minimal since drinking Alka Tru. Thank you.

Kirk Mitchell

Colorado

I would like to thank you for all the information on TruAlka water. I have been consistently using it for over 6 months. I use it at work, at home, give it to my dogs, and I cook with it. I’ve had two interesting things that have occurred over this time. For the last fifteen years, I’ve had very bad acid reflux (Gurd). I was taking four Prilosec a day. I have reduced that now to one pill a day and not even sure I need to take the one.

The second thing thats happened which is really amazing to me, I was first diagnosed with high blood pressure when I was thirteen, that was forty three years ago. I have been on extremely high dose of blood pressure medication for the last fifteen years. I have had two different pharmacies tell me that they have never seen a person on a higher dose of high blood pressure medications than me. After about three months of taking Trualka, I was able to cut my blood pressure medication in half. The next two months, it’s down to a third of what I use to take. It is still improving. Wouldn’t it be great if I could eventually get off my medication. I use to feel tired all the time with all the medications I was taking. Now I feel great again. I am now able to cycle all the time. Outside of the Trualka there was no other changes in my life.

  I hope more people try your water so they too can reap the benefits, I’m sold.

Thank You Again,

Ron Novotny

I love Tru Alka too. That’s why I’m posting on it

Cat

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What's Really in Your Wine?

Grapes and yeast, sure. But what about Zyme-O-Clear, Gelaxina or mega purple? F&W explores the weird, wide-ranging world of 
wine additives—and asks what 
effect (if any) they have on taste.

Think back to the last bottle of wine you drank. What 
do you suppose went into making it? Easy, you 
might say. Grapes. And yeast. Possibly an oak barrel?

Good start. Keep going. You’re not even close.

Let’s say that bottle cost you less than 10 bucks and was pumped out by an industrial wine factory. Or maybe it set you back $100 and came from a boutique winery you visited in Sonoma. Either way, there’s a decent chance it 
was made with some combination of sulfur dioxide (to preserve it), gelatin 
(to remove mouth-puckering tannins), Velcorin (to kill microbes) and, if it 
was a red, the grape concentrate Mega Purple (to pump up flavor and color). Winemakers can use around 60 different products to remedy flaws and tease 
out flavors. But you, the drinker, have no way of knowing which ones might 
have gone into your glass. There’s no law requiring bottles to be labeled with 
these ingredients, and most winemakers oppose volunteering the information.

Generally, they’ll explain that this is for your own good. You might panic if 
you found out that your wine was dosed with a toxic-sounding chemical like tartaric acid—even though it’s an organic compound that occurs naturally in 
all grapes. What’s more, the reality of modern-day winemaking, with its 
labs and powders and pumps, doesn’t square with the romantic image 
of wine as an artisanal miracle. Thus, winemakers reason, it’s best not to 
talk about what really happens.

If you’re curious and like wine, you might draw a different conclusion: It’s precisely because of this disconnect that winemakers should open up about what’s gone into their tanks. Producers and sommeliers are fond of saying 
that wine is food. Yet unlike almost every other edible we consume, our Syrahs and Chardonnays are not bound to disclose what they’ve been made with, an oversight that seems especially glaring at a time when people have grown obsessed with everything 
from GMOs and gluten to the organic (or not) ingredients in their foods.

Black-box winemaking—where we see nothing that goes in or out—has not provoked any kind of real pushback. In 2007, California winemaker Randall Grahm began tweaking his labels to catalog everything he’d added, but only 
a handful of American producers followed suit (Shinn Estate Vineyards in New York and California’s Ridge Vineyards are two of them). Now, however, because of the following factors, it’s time to advocate for full disclosure: the spread of what UC Davis enology professor Anita Oberholster calls controlled winemaking, which relies heavily on additives; the rise of natural winemaking, which eschews any manipulation as evil; and the influence of the organic food movement.

My dive into the curious world of controlled winemaking was at 
a trade expo in Sacramento packed with 14,000 pros, as well as products with sci-fi names like Gelaxina and Zyme-O-Clear. Producers discussed “manufacturing” wines, rather than “making” them, as they perused jars of enzymes that would accent fruit aromas; vials of liquid grape tannins meant to mimic barrel-aging; bags 
of bentonite clay to remove haziness-causing proteins; and catalogs of designer yeast strains that promised to boost a Sauvignon Blanc’s notes 
of pineapple (or peach, bell pepper or lemon, depending on the winemaker’s preference). These adjuncts, as they’re known, are more likely to show up in high-volume wines to minimize errors and correct for subpar grapes. But a little outside assistance doesn’t automatically mean the wine is swill. “We work with customers who sell wines for $150 per bottle, and they use the same kind of products—or even more—as the winery that sells bottles for $10,” says José Santos, president and CEO of Enartis, 
a company that supplies winemaking products. Santos argues that a fine wine is impossible without some help: 
“If you want one that is drinkable, that is good for you and that has good sensory qualities, you need to control the process.” Additives have also improved the overall quality of bargain bottles. “Even though it’s not a sexy story,” admitted a salesman at the expo as he spritzed a mist of oak chip essence for me to smell, “additives are what make it possible for you to spend $6 to $12 and still get a nice glass of wine.”

Additives in wine are nothing new: The ancient Romans tried to make their wines more palatable by doctoring them, alarmingly, with everything from lead 
to marble dust. There’s no evidence that modern adjuncts ring similar alarm bells, though some are initially toxic, like Velcorin (an antimicrobial agent, 
it breaks down into carbon dioxide and water after 24 hours). Sulfur dioxide, 
a common wine preservative, is regularly blamed for causing headaches, though UC Davis professor Andrew Waterhouse notes that no research has teased out such a link, and even anecdotal evidence is shaky. (A handful of dried apricots contains about five times more sulfites than a glass of wine, and stores often add sulfur to vegetables to keep them from browning, yet “no one complains about the salad bar giving them a headache,” Oberholster quips.) Yet the chemistry-set names make most adjuncts taboo despite their widespread use, and winemakers are tight-lipped about using them.

Some producers (both proponents and critics) disagree about what role additives should play yet concur that more transparency could yield better bottles. Winemaker Clark Smith discloses the chemical and mechanical treatments he uses, and he feels 
that keeping high-tech methods under wraps “squelches the free flow of information,” so that adjuncts aren’t applied skillfully. Grahm, for his part, shares his ingredients in hopes that by showing how few agents he includes, he will encourage others to “rely less upon an alphabet soup of additives.”

  I returned from the trade expo curious to know how these additives might influence the flavor of a wine. I’d tried bottles that I’d suspected of chemical massaging because of their price, production volume or taste, some of which had all the subtlety of a liquefied Jolly Rancher. But since the producers I approached chose not to answer my questions, my best 
shot at figuring out the effects of those agents came down to samples of liquid tannins I’d picked up at the expo. Following the instructions 
for winemakers curious to test these concentrates in their wines, I set 
up a mini blind tasting. I poured six glasses of Shinn Merlot—made using only grapes, indigenous yeast, sulfur and tartaric acid—then added to 
each a few drops from one of five vials, which came in varieties like “fruit enhancer fresh.” I left one glass as 
a control and tasted all the wines blind.

I’d expected the adulterated wines to be obvious. Instead, only two glasses had a chemical aftertaste, and even then it was subtle; I only detected it after I learned they were ones mixed with liquid tannin. To my surprise—and slight dismay—my favorite glass wasn’t the unaltered Merlot but the one dosed with “mocha.” This (admittedly unscientific) test made clear that, like picking out the differences in flavor between organic and conventional produce, it can 
be difficult to perceive additives by taste alone.

But the taste of a wine doesn’t tell 
a bottle’s whole story. There are nuanced, complex wines made using some of these adjuncts, just as 
there are one-dimensional, unpleasant wines that avoid them completely. However, as with knowing that 
a chef has used raw-milk cheese instead of Kraft Singles, a list of 
a wine’s ingredients can offer clues about the producer’s sensibility 
and craftsmanship and the wine’s relationship to place—all attributes our food-obsessed culture has come to prize. An ingredient label that lists Mega Purple would be a deal-breaker for some who might feel it makes all wines taste the same‒artificial and jammy. For winemaker David Page at Shinn, the presence of adjuncts points to poor stewardship of the land: “As 
a consumer, it basically tells you that what happens on that particular vineyard or farm is industrial,” Page says. On the other hand, José Santos, the Enartis CEO, told me that he would look at a preservative-free 
wine like Page’s and think, That is 
the wine of God—which is vinegar.

In the end, ingredients can provide 
a shorthand for understanding 
a winery’s philosophy. Whether you’re uncorking an industrial product or opening a bottle crafted with minimal intervention, knowing what’s in it can reveal the ideals of the winery itself—which may help you decide what you do or don’t want to try. “If I see that 20 things have been put into the wine, it tells me about the whole sensibility of the winemaking ethos,” says Grahm. “Just the simple fact 
that whoever made it used so many additives would tell me it’s not a 
wine that I’m interested in drinking.”

By Bianca Bosker

Bianca Bosker is the author of Cork Dork, a book about wine, obsession and 
the science of taste, out next year from Penguin Books.

” It’s a great book ”

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FLOURLESS DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Chewy flourless double chocolate chip cookie that will make you weak in your knees. Gluten-free

10 minPrep Time

15 minCook Time

25 minTotal Time

Ingredients

2.5 cups powdered sugar

1/2 cup unsweetened dutch cocoa powder

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

3 egg whites

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

2 cups dark chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 F

Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper

In a bowl mix the powdered sugar, cocoa powder, cinnamon and salt. Stir slowly until combined.

Stir in the egg whites, vanilla extract.

Fold in the chocolate chips

***The batter will look a little shiny and watery, that is fine. ***

Spoon a Tablespoon of batter onto the baking trays about an inch apart. Beware, they will spread out quite a bit. I used a toothpick in-between cookies in case they spread too much.

Bake for about 15 minutes. Cookies will start cracking on the surface.

Let them cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes then carefully remove them to a cooling rack.

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Teens More Likely to Eat Healthy If They Think It's Rebellious

Parents have been trying to get kids to eat better for years. Now, a study suggests that the answer could lie in your teen’s rebellious attitude.

Adolescent angst can be used to motivate healthier eating.

  According to researcher Christopher J. Bryan of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (and every parent ever), most young teens are prone to acting against authority figures and exhibit an above-average sensitivity level to injustice. So they set out to see if they could coerce teens into eating better by portraying better food choices as acts of rebellion. “Our goal here was to portray healthy eating as a way to take a stand against injustice—to stand up for vulnerable people who lack the ability to protect themselves,” Bryan tells Medical News Today.

To do this, the research team simply educated eighth graders on how big food companies manipulate people into eating badly—by maximizing the addictiveness of junk food and marketing to young children and low-income populations. According to Bryan, “We framed healthy eating as a way to ‘stick it to the man’—we cast the executives behind food marketing as controlling adult authority figures and framed the avoidance of junk food as a way to rebel against their control.”

Following the discussion, the teens’ eating choices were monitored. The researchers found that in the aftermath of their discussion, the middleschoolers were seven percent more likely to choose water over sugary beverages, and 11 percent more likely to pick a healthy snack over an unhealthy one.