June, 10, 2012 Do Dresses Made From Wine Get More Fashionable As They Age?

(Gizmodo) - First, the bad news. You can't get drunk wearing this wine dress. So you'll have to find another secret way to get your morning buzz on. But the good news is that researchers from the University of Western Australia have found a way to grow fabric using a similar fermentation process to ...

June, 09, 2012 Wine from 170-year-old wreck nets $156,000

(SFGate) - Number of the day 170 That's how many years 11 bottles of Champagne sat on the bottom of the Baltic Sea before they sold at auction Friday for more than $156,000. The bubbly was perfectly stored horizontally in cold, dark waters between Finland and Sweden. Divers exploring the shipw...

June, 08, 2012 US: Fewer Grapes, More Drinkers

(WSJ) - California's wine industry is getting squeezed by a shortage of grapes. For a decade, grape prices in the nation's dominant wine-producing state were in decline, pressured by big vineyard expansions during the 1990s that flooded the market with product. Faced with price erosion, many farm...

June, 08, 2012 US: Redwoods vs. red wine: Lawsuit aims to block vineyard

(MSNBC) - Drawing a line in California's redwood forests, environmental groups on Thursday sued to block a winery from building on 173 acres, and sent a message to developers of an even larger, nearby 1,600-acre proposed project. The smaller battle is over Artesa Winery's plan to grow pinot noir ...

June, 08, 2012 US: Vote promised next week on privatizing Pa. wine, liquor sales

(Philly) - A top House Republican is promising a vote early next week on a revamped bill to privatize the sale of wine and hard liquor in Pennsylvania. House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R., Allegheny) said through a spokesman on Friday that he expects a vote on a newly crafted privatization plan...

June, 08, 2012 Building Wine Brands In China No Small Task

(JingDaily) - China’s maturing wine industry is not new news, with wine consumption doubling since 2005 and the country now the world’s seventh-largest wine consumer. As more drinkers trade in bottles of beer or baijiu for glasses of wine, winemakers from around the world continue to look for ne...

June, 08, 2012 Canada: Ottawa drops ban on wine transport

(MontrealGazette) - Private member's bill to 'free the grapes' will replace decades-old prohibition. New federal legislation will soon make it legal to trans-port your favourite wine across Quebec's borders, but fermented grape aficionados aren't popping their corks in celebration just yet. The p...

June, 08, 2012 The Fine-Wine World Continues to Look East

(WSJ) - It was in June 2000 when Greg De'Eb, a diplomat at the South African High Commission in Hong Kong, attended a conference organized by the territory's trade-development council asking whether the region could become the wine-trading center of Asia. It provided, he says, the genesis of an idea...