July, 08, 2012 US: Extreme heat affects local crops

(NJ) - While most people in South Jersey have spent the past ten days avoiding the oppressive heat, one part of the population — the part that gives the state its nickname — has been busy making sure the high temperatures don’t affect their crops. Summer in the Garden State is known for blueb...

July, 08, 2012 New wine company code to protect investors

(TheIndependent) - Leading companies in the wine investment industry are looking to set up a regulatory body to combat an influx of bogus sellers and prevent company collapses. In the past two years, 50 wine investment companies have collapsed, potentially costing investors thousands, while the m...

July, 08, 2012 China thirsting for premium Aust wine

(CanberraTimes) - China cannot get enough of Australia's premium wines, according to a specialist exporter. Inland Trading Company principal Greg Corra, who is about to send his biggest wine consignment worth $US500,000 ($A487,000) to a supermarket chain in China, says although a difficult market, ...

July, 08, 2012 Leveling the winery field: U.S. lawmakers advocate repeal of Canadian wine tariffs

(WatertownDailyTimes) - New Yorkers can hop across the Canadian border and bring back cases of wine while paying a nominal fee or no charge at all. Canadians, on the other hand, have made a habit of only sampling wine at vineyards here, not buying. And it’s not because New York wines taste bad. ...

July, 07, 2012 Some People Suffer Allergy-Like Symptoms After Drinking Wine

(MedicalNewsToday) - Around seven percent of adults suffer from an intolerance to wine. This is the result of a survey presented by Peter Wigand and co-authors in the current edition of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztelb Int 2012; 109 (25): 437-44). The authors evaluated 948 questi...

July, 06, 2012 8 Health Benefits of Drinking Wine

(Food&Wine) - Every year, there is a flurry of headlines about the health benefits of wine. But can drinking wine really make a difference? Here, the news—very good news, indeed—from the latest studies. Note: The health benefits come from moderate wine consumption, defined by the American Heart ...

July, 06, 2012 Rising Stars of French Winemaking

(NYTimes) - Across many parts of wine-producing France, a lively debate is under way between partisans of two great vintages, 2009 and 2010. Some prefer the ripe, plump, charming 2009s, others the structured, sterner, more “classic” 2010s. But in one area, the southern part of the Rhône Valley,...

July, 06, 2012 Think While You Drink: In Defense of Wine Snobs

(WSJ) - AMERICA HAS NEVER been overly fond of its intellectuals. Ralph Waldo Emerson took note of this fact in a speech made at Harvard almost 200 years ago: "The mind of a country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Even today, anyone with a higher degree or a well-articulated belief ...