May, 18, 2012 Yeast Rehydration Nutrients

(NewWorldWinemakerBlog) - As fermentation proceeds and yeast continue to propagate, they pass along a certain amount of cellular material to future generations. In juice/must without proper yeast rehydration, a gradual reduction in cell membrane thickness and decreasing amounts of nutrient reserve t...

May, 18, 2012 Is it OK to let the kids try wine?

(HeraldOnline) - When my son James was 10 months old, he was baptized into my love of wine. The ceremony took place in Bordeaux, and I performed it myself, rubbing a small amount of 2000 Château Pétrus on his gums. Yes, the kid started well. Since the age of 4, he has been allowed to dip his fi...

May, 18, 2012 US: Nurturing Iowa’s wine industry

(TheGazette) - Only a decade or so ago, the idea of an Iowa wine industry seemed far-fetched. Today, there are about 300 vineyards and 100 wineries in the state. In the past 10 years, the number of Iowa wineries has quintupled. Iowa’s wine production has grown from about 50,000 gallons to 350,0...

May, 18, 2012 US: Constellation Brands Signs Distribution and Broker Agreements in 14 States

(MarketWatch) - Constellation Brands, Inc., /STZ +0.48%/, the world's leading premium wine company, announced today that it is nearing completion of the second phase of its distribution transition with the signing of multi-year agreements with Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC), Young's M...

May, 18, 2012 SecondMarket Acts to Offset Facebook Fees Selling Wine, Art

(BusinessWeek) - All good things must come to an end, and so it is with SecondMarket Inc.’s four-year run as the biggest private market for buyers and sellers of Facebook Inc. (FB) (FB) shares. The initial public offering Facebook has planned for today forced an end to the private trading, whic...

May, 18, 2012 Greek winemakers see crisis as glass half-full

(Reuters) - Greek winemakers are not pricing their wares in drachmas - yet. The winemakers, visiting New York as part of an international promotional tour, doubted Athens would leave the euro-zone even after Fitch Ratings Agency downgraded Greece's sovereign debt on Thursday, calling the country'...

May, 17, 2012 Space spiders and wine: The weird science projects onboard the SpaceX capsule

(MNN) - The first private spacecraft ever to launch toward the International Space Station will be carrying a host of student science experiments when it blasts off on May 19, including projects looking at spiders in space and how microgravity affects wine. SpaceX's robotic Dragon capsule is sla...

May, 17, 2012 The Bitter Economics of Sweet Wines

(WSJ) - It was raining as I approached Barsac, the small village at the heart of France's sweet-winemaking region. Navigating my car along its tiny back roads, I had long since given up on my GPS, which insisted I had "reached my destination," though I was clearly still far from where I was supposed...