November, 08, 2012 Chinese fake bottle cache not Chateau Lafite

(Decanter) - The house where 10,000 bottles of fake Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) wines were found had been under surveillance by Chinese police for some time. The huge cache of bottles, believed to be forgeries, was found in an empty house in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province that had been under ...

November, 08, 2012 Argentine Protectionism Sees Cars Swapped for Rice, Olives, Wine

(BusinessWeek) - Alejandro Echeagaray got into the rice business in a roundabout way. As president of BMW Group Argentina, he’s not known for his farming abilities. But in March 2011, Argentina’s government decided that car importers would have to match their imports with exports of equal value....

November, 08, 2012 Introducing Amazon Wine

(BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. today announced the launch of Amazon Wine (www.amazon.com/wine), a marketplace offering customers more than a thousand wines crafted by wineries around the country. The new store features easy-to-use shopping tools to help customers explore great wines and offers...

November, 08, 2012 5 Ways Wine Can Be A Part Of A Healthy Diet

(HuffingtonPost) - Wine is many things: a nice way to relax, something to share with friends, a perfect complement to a well-cooked meal. But what you don't often hear is that wine can also be part of a healthy diet. While many of us who are dieting think that we need to cut wine out of our diet ...

November, 08, 2012 2012 California Wine Harvest Report

/PRNewswire/ - The 2012 California wine grape harvest yielded generous amounts of high quality fruit, and winemakers across the state are describing this year's vintage as "excellent," "outstanding" and "ideal." "The 2012 vintage will offer consumers in our growing national and international market...

November, 08, 2012 Yao Family Wines Enters the U.S. Wine Market

/PRNewswire/ - Yao Family Wines, the Napa Valley wine company founded by former NBA star Yao Ming, today announced its entry into the U.S. wine market following its launch in mainland China. The company debuted in 2011 with its inaugural Yao Ming® 2009 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and later relea...

November, 07, 2012 Measures Developed To Prevent Wine Indispositions

(RedOrbit) - Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the DLR develop measures to prevent health problems associated with biogenic amines in wine Biogenic amines may be one of the factors responsible for symptoms such as headaches, gastro-intestinal disorders, shortness of breath, fa...

November, 07, 2012 What a corker! Artist creates collages of nude models using hundreds of wine bottle stops

(DailyMail) - It takes a lot of bottle to pull off full-bodied beauties like these. Artist Conrad Engelhardt painstakingly pieces together detailed nudes using old wine corks donated by top London restaurants. And some of the 2,000 and 5,000 corks in each mosaic end up on the wall of the very ...