October, 21, 2012 UPDATE 1-Australia's Treasury Wines sees H1 earnings down, shares slide

(Reuters) - Treasury Wine Estates Ltd , the world's second-largest wine company, warned on Monday its first-half earnings would slide 20 percent, as poor weather and higher corporate costs dragged, pushing its shares down eight percent. Treasury Wine, which was spun off from brewer Foster's Group...

October, 20, 2012 UK: Supermarkets 'to be banned from discounting multiple wine bottles'

(Telegraph) - Supermarkets will be banned from discounting multiple bottles of wine under Government plans to be set out within days. The Coalition’s alcohol strategy — expected to be launched next week — will propose that special deals which encourage shoppers to buy in bulk should be outlawe...

October, 19, 2012 US: Meteor debris spread over wine country

(SFGate) - The meteor that exploded in a brilliant burst of flame above the Bay Area on Wednesday was a lonely remnant from the birth of the solar system, and may have left its rocky debris in a band stretching east of San Rafael toward Napa and Sonoma, the astronomer who calculated its path reporte...

October, 19, 2012 US: State government investing in local wine and future wine makers

(KNDO) - The wine industry in Washington continues to grow and bring in more dollars to the state's economy. Friday, Governor Chris Gregoire visited the Tri-Cities to celebrate a new investment in the wine industry that will put our state on the global map. Governor Gregoire visited the site of t...

October, 19, 2012 Prop. 37 Divides California Wine Industry

(Wines&Vines) - On Nov. 6, voters in California will decide the fate of a proposed law that would require new labels for genetically engineered (GE) foods and ingredients. Under Proposition 37, any food with GE ingredients would need to be labeled as such, and the state Department of Public Health w...

October, 19, 2012 TEN UNUSUAL WINE-PRODUCING AREAS

(TheDrinksBusiness) - The world is full of strange fruit indeed. For the past two decades, the number of winemakers attempting to grow grapes for drinkable wine outside 32-52º and 28-46º latitude has only increased. Koshu grapes in Japan, complete with protective origami paper hats As the mark...

October, 19, 2012 Napa's Best Tasting Room With A View---And Wine of the Week

(Forbes) - The ancient Roman poet Ovid is best known for his poem, Metamorphoses, which trumpets change and transformation. One might easily argue that the team at Ovid winery performs some magical transformations of their own with simple clusters of grapes. The estate produces only one wine, a stat...

October, 18, 2012 The wonderful world of wine beer

(TheDrinksBusiness) - Earlier this week we ran a story about wine beer, which sparked a lot of interest. Champagne and beerBlue Moon, a craft brewery in the US are in the process of rolling out their Chardonnay wine beer across the country; in addition a picture posted on Twitter hinted that the ...