November, 22, 2012 US: Wine industry helps Napans stay healthy

(NapaValleyRegister) - This is the time of year for giving, so I would like to give thanks to Napa Valley Vintners for being so generous to local agencies like ours that depend on private donations to make health services available to some of our most deserving families. Children’s Health Initi...

November, 22, 2012 Americans Mark Thanksgiving Holiday

(VOANews) - Americans are marking the annual Thanksgiving holiday Thursday. The holiday is engrained in American life as a day for family gatherings with sumptuous turkey feasts, accompanied by a wide array of side dishes and pies. By one estimate, more than 43 million people are expected to trav...

November, 21, 2012 South Africa: Wine industry committed to ethical trade - Wieta Statement

(Wine) - At a special meeting of the Wine and Agricultural Ethical Trade Association’s (WIETA) board convened against the backdrop of the protest action, its members issued a statement supporting the right to freedom of association and reaffirmed the WIETA Code principle of a living wage. Speakin...

November, 21, 2012 US: Eastern Winery Exposition Expands

(Wines&Vines) - With the number of exhibitors already topping the 2012 total, and advance registrations ahead of where they were at this time last year, the 2013 edition of the Eastern Winery Exposition looks bigger and better than the inaugural event this past March. The exposition, which will be h...

November, 21, 2012 Canada: Nova Scotia proposes legislation to allow wine sales across provincial border

(TheStar) - A proposed move by Nova Scotia to allow consumers to import wine from other parts of Canada could help nudge Ontario in the same direction, wine industry experts say. As more provinces lift prohibitions on wine importation, others will consider reciprocating, said Aaron Goertzen, econ...

November, 21, 2012 US wine drinkers remain loyal to natural cork, but screw-caps slowly closing the gap, according to new report

(TizWine) - The cork-centric view of the US market is gradually changing, as alternative closures, led by screw-caps, make inroads into certain categories of wine, according to latest Wine Intelligence research. The Wine Intelligence USA closure report reveals that consumer affinity towards screw...

November, 21, 2012 Public Anger Over Europe’s Budget, and Wine Cellar, Bubbles Before Talks

(NYTimes) - Amid wrangling over how much money the European Union spends at a time of grinding austerity across the Continent, Martin Ehrenhauser, an Austrian member of the European Parliament, lobbed a sobering question this summer at the union’s Brussels bureaucracy: How many bottles of booze do...

November, 21, 2012 Scientific contributions: Report calls for more use of research to improve crops

(FT) - Science has made a considerable contribution to the 2 per cent annual increase in global crop yields achieved in recent decades. Conventional plant breeding has long been the traditional way of boosting plant performance but it has been joined in recent years by the technique of genetic mo...