Wine Industry News
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(TheDrinksBusiness) - Robert Mondavi Winery is to collaborate with pop singer-turned-actor Josh Groban on an as yet unnamed Napa Valley wine scheduled for release next year. The hook up will also stretch to in-store displays promoting Robert Mondavi wines alongside Groban’s new album, to be rele... -
(DailyMail) - One or two glasses of wine a day could work as well as drugs at protecting older women from thinning bones. Regular moderate intake of alcohol after the menopause helps to maintain bone strength, according to an international review team. In comparison, they say, abstaining fro...Daily glass of wine ‘is as good as drugs for protecting thin bones in older women’
August, 03, 2012 -
(TheDrinksBusiness) - Throughout mankind’s early history peoples of various civilizations constantly sought to personify the world around them and the food and drink it provided. Wine, beer, grapes and grain, as fruits of the land, were usually represented by deities connected to fertility or plea...TOP 10 WINE SAINTS
August, 02, 2012 -
(Recordnet) - Delicato Family Vineyards has embarked on a five-year expansion of its original Manteca winery, boosting production to 16 million cases per year from 12 million cases, company officials said. John Yarborough, vice president of winery operations, said Tuesday that recently as many as...US: Delicato winery expanding in Manteca
August, 02, 2012 -
(ChinaDaily) - The Alsace Wine Route is 170 km long and was inaugurated in 1953. It crisscrosses vineyards from north to south along the foothills of the Vosges Mountains. Designated as one of France's most beautiful tourist routes, it features wonderful landscapes, with more than 100 towns and vill...A magnet for wine lovers
August, 02, 2012 -
(NWW) - The recent cold weather in large parts of our country (South Africa) made me remember a tasting I had with a winemaker. As far was icewine was concerned, he got the concept of minimum and maximum temperatures all mixed up and insisted that he harvested his frozen grapes at a minimum temperat...Icewine: Why this tradition might slowly be melting away
August, 02, 2012 -
(TheDrinksBusiness) - Oregon must protect its reputation for high quality Pinot Noir as the variety’s growing international popularity leads to cheaper, higher yielding examples, a number of the state’s top producers have warned. “Part of me is worried about the future of Pinot Noir everywher...POPULARITY THREATENS PINOT NOIR’S IMAGE
August, 01, 2012 -
(HuffingtonPost) - The two most important parts to determine a good wine are smell and taste. In my last piece, I covered three steps to become a wine aroma expert. Now that you have that part down, it's time to move on to a really useful trick to identify the tastes of wine. When I lived in Califo...The Trick to Identifying Wine Tastes
August, 01, 2012

