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05/16/12
Big shift in grape market impacts North Coast wineries, growers
A looming grape shortage and growing demand for California wines have driven grape prices higher, with some grape prices doubling in the span of a year. And wineries that were hit hard by the recession are exploring alternative ways to maintain lower prices for consumers, even while their production costs are rising
05/16/12
Ledson plans new Kenwood winery
Ledson filed a use permit application in April with the county's Permit and Resource Management Department (PRMD) for a development at 7950 Sonoma Hwy.
05/16/12
Guala launches screwcap closure for sparkling wine
Guala has launched Viiva, a screwcap closure for sparkling wine.
05/16/12
Symphony concert to include piano piece in honor of Jess Jackson
Jackson Family Wines underwrote the Santa Rosa Symphony's final concert series of the season this weekend in memory of founder Jess Stonestreet Jackson, who died a little over a year ago
05/16/12
Keep and Carry Leftover Wine
The acts of preserving and transporting partially consumed bottles of wine traditionally have been considered two separate issues, but a Seattle sporting goods manufacturer has devised a single solution.
05/16/12
New Book: Traditional Distillation Art & Passion
Hubert Germain-Robin shares expertise in grape growing, winemaking, distilling, blending and aging in new book, "Traditional Distillation Art & Passion"
05/16/12
Study Finds Hope in Treating Alzheimer's With Wine Polyphenol
Mount Sinai researchers find that a grape chemical can be absorbed by rats' brains and stop mental decline
05/16/12
Three Things They Don't Want You to Know
Who's "they," you ask? It's restaurants, retailers, wineries and, yes, wine writers
05/16/12
Bordeaux Futures Hit the Market, But Is Anyone Buying?
Recent days have brought top wines like Margaux and Haut-Brion; wineries struggle with pricing
05/16/12
New wine glasses aim to balance "water and fire"
Could a wine glass shaped roughly like a closed tulip blossom revolutionize the savouring of fine vintages by taming the alcohol in the wine?
05/16/12
Wine.com Launches Advanced Personalized Recommendations to Enhance Shopping Experience
he new features are the latest in a series of product enhancements to help Wine.com customers make informed purchasing decisions quickly and conveniently.
05/16/12
1774 vintage French wine sells for $49,000
An anonymous internet buyer purchased the 'Vin Jaune' which hails from Arbois in the eastern Jura region
05/16/12
Seattle's Precept Wine buys Idaho winery
With the acquisition, Precept adds a second Idaho wine maker to its family.
05/16/12
Report: French Dominance Of China's Wine Market Set To Slip
France Holds 48.8% Market Share Of Imported Wine Market
05/16/12
Seattle's Precept Wine buys Idaho winery
"This is a reunion of sorts for me, having worked with the winery when it was part of Corus Brands," Andrew Browne, Precept's founder and CEO, said in a release. "There is no doubt with our two significant players in Idaho we'll help bring the state's incredible winemaking to the national forefront."
05/16/12
Screw caps are turning up on more and better wines
A reader and his wife, who buy cases of wine through a club membership, recently told me they were dismayed that so many bottles are now topped with screw caps. They said that each case they received was evenly divided between red and white wines, and of the six whites, four usually have screw caps instead of corks
05/16/12
PR: Blended Red Wines are the Hot Trend, According to Clayhouse Wines
"(In 2011) Moscato, sweet reds, red blends, unoaked wines, Prosecco, Pinot Noir and Malbec were hot. As consumers continued to seek out value, the strongest sales growth came from wines priced at $10 to $15...The father of the red blend category has been Menage a Trois from Trinchero Family Estates."
05/16/12
Farmer Mac's income up 29 percent
The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation reported strong first quarter 2012 results, as increased earnings benefited from growth in program assets and credit quality remained high
05/16/12
Bordeaux 2011 - Super Tuesday: Over 40 releases overwhelm negociants, merchants
Over 40 chateaux have released their prices today - including Haut Brion, Angelus, Calon Segur and Kirwan - causing negociants and merchant to protest many were getting lost
05/16/12
Champagne 'capsule thieves' arrested
... theft of 109,000 CRD capsules (capsules représentatives des droits) - the colour-coded round stickers on top of wine bottles sold in France that prove that tax has been paid on the bottle.
05/16/12
States with Stronger Alcohol Controls Have Fewer Alcohol-Related Traffic Deaths
States that more heavily control the sale and distribution of alcohol have lower alcohol-related traffic deaths than states that take a more hands off approach
05/16/12
The new rules of wine
Should 'Frankenwines' be feared or embraced? Will the next great grape be grown in Britain, or China? And what, exactly, does 'biodynamic' mean?
05/16/12
Diageo begs BrewDog to stop "witch hunt"
Diageo country director Andrew Cowan has taken to twitter to stop BrewDog's perceived witch hunt of one of their members after the British Institute of Innkeeping Scotland's awards scandal.
05/16/12
For selling alcohol to minors, a $716 million judgment
It was the drunk driving accident that killed a Riverview man more than four years ago, when a 17-year-old lost control of his Camaro and slammed into a car driven by Sammy Garcia
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