May, 11, 2013 US-MI: Why state Sen. Goeff Hansen is looking forward to allowing wine at farmers markets

(MLive) - Sample a local merlot while you shop for tomatoes and celery? It sounds like a simple idea, but it's taken state Sen. Goeff Hansen, R-Hart, seven years to fine-tune a couple of bills allowing local wines into Michigan farmers markets. On Tuesday, May 7, the latest version of a plan ...

May, 11, 2013 UK: A wine for all reasons: So what SHOULD you drink with a fish finger sandwich or a KFC bargain bucket?

(DailyMail) - Food buffs will tell you that poached salmon and black truffles is lost without a chilled French chablis. But would they have a clue if you asked them which wine was best paired with a Big Mac and large fries? Motivated by the idea that every meal can be special, a team of exper...

May, 11, 2013 Napa Valley Wine Country rocking with first ever Bottle Rock Festival

 (KGO) - Wine Country is rocking with the first ever Bottle Rock Festival. And while most folks love the idea of the event, taking place at the fairgrounds in Napa, some are not so happy about the crowds and the traffic it brings. What could be better than a little gourmet food and wine and...

May, 10, 2013 Canada’s growing wine industry turns to seasonal foreign workers

(CronkiteNewsOnline) - It’s nearly spring in Ontario, Canada. Outside you can feel it. It’s still chilly, but there’s a sense that the worst of winter is over. There’s a thin layer of melting snow, pooling in shallow ground and mixing with the dirt to create a thick layer...

May, 10, 2013 Wine tasting is bullshit. Here's why.

(IO9) - The human palate is arguably the weakest of the five traditional senses. This begs an important question regarding wine tasting: is it bullshit, or is it complete and utter bullshit? There are no two ways about it: the bullshit is strong with wine. Wine tasting. Wine rating. Wine reviews...

May, 10, 2013 World's best-selling wine writer sells off private cellar

(Guardian) - The world's best-selling wine writer, Hugh Johnson, is selling off his private cellar after half a century of collecting and like any downsizer, he is struggling to let go. "I shouldn't be selling them," he says wincing in the direction of a pair of magnums of Chablis waiting to go ...

May, 10, 2013 US: BottleRock Napa fires it up

(PressDemocrat) - The two big musical dilemmas leading into Day 1 of BottleRock Napa Valley were: 1. Could two concert promoter newbies — Gabe Meyers and Bog Vogt, who had never staged a music festival together — pull it off? 2. And would Grateful Dead fans, who paid $139 a ticket...

May, 10, 2013 Barefoot Wine founders stumbled into business and got rich the hard way: slowly

(BizJournals) - It almost sounds like something done on a drunken lark: Barefoot Wine founders Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey bought a wine business without a drop of industry knowledge. But if they weren’t a couple of naïve risk-takers who jumped into a startup with both fee...