Wine Industry News
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For novices like me, it’s sometimes hard to understand the notion of buying a bottle of wine and not opening it the second you get home. Oh sure, I get that some wines taste better with age, but there are many wine lovers out there that buy and sell wine strictly to hold--much akin to a share o... -
(Insidescoopsf) - Now is the time of year when proclamations appear in inboxes about the ongoing California wine harvest, and before long we’ll be flooded with a lot of official numbers on that topic. None of this goes to quality, though. And yet quality is what we’re most concerned with. So...US: An early look at harvest 2011
October, 07, 2011 -
(Time) - Cue the jokes about good things coming together. Marijuana still hasn't been legalized in most parts of the U.S, but obviously that hasn't stopped people from experimenting with it. Gourmet reports that in — where else? — California, "the future of marijuana ingestion may be found at t...Talk About a Buzz: Marijuana-Infused Wine Gains Popularity in California
October, 07, 2011 -
(USAToday) - To the litany of changes being wrought by climate change, we may be able to add one more: where wine grapes can and can't be grown.Within 30 years, the areas where California can grow fine wine grapes could shrink because of climate change, while little-known growing regions such as Sea...Study: Climate change to impact where wine grapes can grow
October, 06, 2011 -
(Businessweek) - Virginia's fledgling wine industry got a global boost Tuesday from Donald Trump's millions of dollars, his celebrity and his luxury properties worldwide where wine from his new vineyard will be a staple. Trump and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell formally opened a winery near the pres...US: Trump name boosts fledgling Va wine industry
October, 06, 2011 -
(Decanter) - Vintners in the celebrated sweet wine growing regions of Sauternes and Barsac are amazed at how early the 2011 harvest has been. ‘It is the earliest I have ever seen, with a very sudden spread of botrytis,’ consultant Denis Dubourdieu of Chateau Doisy Daëne in Barsac said. ‘I can...Bordeaux 2011: Sauternes surprised by 'earliest ever' harvest
October, 06, 2011 -
(Odt) - Drinkers of wine, sherry and port may be unknowingly breaking the law and consuming small doses of the party drug fantasy, an illegal class B drug. The revelation has brought calls for wine to be tested for traces of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), or its precursor gamma-butyrolactone (G...Drug in wine causes concern
October, 06, 2011 -
(KansasCity) - Kansas grape growers tend nearly 350 acres of vines — it’s hardly France or California — but they did produce more than 100,000 gallons of wine last year, two new surveys show. The surveys were released this week by the National Agricultural Statistics Service office in Kansa...US: Who knew? Kansas produces 100,000 gallons of wine
October, 05, 2011

