May, 16, 2012 ‘Confusing’ EU wine labelling rules unfit for consumer needs: UK winery

(BeverageDaily) - An award-winning UK winery pulled up by regulators for illegally calling a wine it made using Argentinian grapes ‘wine’ under EU law says that current labelling rules are hopelessly out of step with consumer needs. Chapel Down Winery imported Argentinian grapes to produce a one...

May, 16, 2012 US: Big shift in grape market impacts North Coast wineries, growers

(PressDemocrat) - The wine grape market has shifted so quickly and dramatically that wine industry veterans are calling it a game change. 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 wi...

May, 16, 2012 Corkheads: Is that wine orange?

(MercuryNews) - What gets a wine geek's juices flowing? Aroma, certainly. Nothing's quite as satisfying as that first whiff of lychee in a glass of gewürztraminer, or the unmistakable l'eau de jerky in some syrahs. Color plays a close second for me. In addition to its bracing acidity, the thing ...

May, 16, 2012 The $1.3m wine hoax: How one man sold cheap Napa plonk as the world's finest vintage... and fooled the industry elite

(DailyMail) - As a fraudster is indicted for a $1.3million hoax counterfeiting rare wines and selling the bottles, attention has fallen to the consumer-trusted wine experts who were so easily fooled. The world's most respected taste buds bought, sold and wrote about Rudy Kurniawan's wine collecti...

May, 16, 2012 US: Sheraton teams with Wine Spectator for 'Social Hour'

(USAToday) - Starwood's Sheraton chain is rolling out new wine menus and a wine tasting hour in a bid to give guests another reason to socialize in hotel lobbies while boosting wine and food sales. Unlike boutique hotel operator Kimpton, Sheraton hotels won't offer guests a free, full glass of wi...

May, 15, 2012 Keep and Carry Leftover Wine

(Wines&Vines) - 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. The founders of Cascade Designs Inc. hope both consumers and the wine industry w...

May, 15, 2012 Treasury Wine Estates celebrates 1st birthday

(NapaValleyRegister) - Treasury Wine Estates is celebrating its first birthday as a stand-alone wine company. Formerly known as Foster’s Group, Treasury Wine Estates commemorated the milestone by launching a new global community investment program with a focus on food and water initiatives, said a...

May, 15, 2012 New wine glasses aim to balance "water and fire"

(Reuters) - Could a wine glass shaped roughly like a closed tulip blossom revolutionize the savouring of fine vintages by taming the alcohol in the wine? That's the hope of French luxury crystal glassmaker Baccarat, which recently began sales of its new line of glasses in Hong Kong, where wine im...