Wine Industry News
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(USAToday) - Bob Sessions has never had a drop of alcohol in his life. Yet at age 86, the teetotaler is eager to see if a natural compound found in red wine can combat disease. Sessions enrolls Wednesday in a first-of-a-kind government-sponsored study examining whether resveratrol can alter or delay... -
(TheReporter) - The resurgence of the wine industry in Napa County and beyond is one of the forces driving an increase in warehouse demand in the Napa/Solano region, according to a new report by Colliers International. The resurgence is a leading factor in vacancy stabilizing and declining in thr...US: Napa wine flows, vacancy slows
May, 13, 2012 -
(ChinaDaily) - Veteran winemakers know that the quality of the water and the sticky rice isn't enough to guarantee good results. The process has been declared an intangible cultural heritage of the State. Most Shaoxing yellow rice wine can be ready to drink in 90 days, but some is allowed to ferm...China: Yellow Treasure
May, 12, 2012 -
(Bites) - There is one overriding reason people will consider buying the new white wine with the big “B” on the label, and it can be summed up by the name above it: Barrymore. Drew Barrymore has gone into the wine business, and her first release is not from California, where so many Hollywood an...Are celebrity wines worth the price?
May, 12, 2012 -
(News10) - No-bid contracts cost taxpayers big money, and that's one reason the $79 million Napa Valley Wine Train flood-control project has become a "tax dollar sinkhole," two U.S. senators say. In a statement issued Tuesday in response to a California Watch report, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., a...US: GOP senators: Napa Wine Train project 'tax dollar sinkhole'
May, 11, 2012 -
(Decanter) - The French government is funding a marketing campaign to encourage wine consumers and sommeliers in China to look beyond Bordeaux. Around 400 wines from across France will be included in the three-year campaign, launched in Beijing this month. Tutored tastings for the trade and consu...France government campaign encourages China to look beyond Bordeaux
May, 11, 2012 -
(Wines&Vines) - With a hearing looming in a Mendocino County court June 9, former winery colleagues Paul Dolan and Tom Thornhill spoke with Wines & Vines this week. Since January, Dolan’s sudden dismissal from the Mendocino Wine Co. (MWC), co-founded in 2004 with Thornhill and his brother Tim Thor...US: Updating the Mendocino Winery Shuffle
May, 11, 2012 -
(TheDrinksBusiness) - Cult wines and Cabernet Sauvignon, the two go hand in hand and may even be practically synonymous to most people. But while there are technical and theoretical arguments that Lafite, Penfolds or Ornellaia are cult* (Saint-Emilion’s micro-châteaux don’t count in this instan...Top 10 100-point Napa Cabernets
May, 11, 2012

