Wine news April 13, 2016

The New York Post on fitness trainer Tracy Anderson's diet which includes wine.

The Huffington Post proclaims that Kath Lee Gifford knows good wine. "I am a big believer that “the earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.“ And that as His children, “every good and perfect gift comes from above, streaming down from the Father in the heavenly realms, who does not change like shifting shadows.”

Eater provides a guide to fortified wine. "As Carrell indicates, by definition a fortified wine is a wine which has a distilled spirit added to it, to increase its alcohol content—fortifying it."

Fortune on 5 underrated wine countries.

Winefolly on the wines of Priorat. "The region has a record for winemaking since the creation of the Cartoixa d’Escaladei Priory in 1163 (Escaladei means “ladder to god” in the local Calatan)."

Food and Wine asks does wine taste different as you get older."Cowart and other researchers now know that the ability to smell fades much more than the ability to taste."