May, 13, 2012 Wines Targeting Women Are Long on Legs, Short on Flavor

(Bloomberg) - Freud struggled to find an answer to the question “What does a woman want?” Ninety-odd years later, some in the wine industry think they know. Really? According to the new “girly-wine” brand marketers, we want to be skinny, to toss our hair playfully like ponies as we pick our ...

May, 13, 2012 Component in red wine may hold answers in Alzheimer's battle

(USAToday) - Bob Sessions has never had a drop of alcohol in his life. Yet at age 86, the teetotaler is eager to see if a natural compound found in red wine can combat disease. Sessions enrolls Wednesday in a first-of-a-kind government-sponsored study examining whether resveratrol can alter or delay...

May, 13, 2012 US: Napa wine flows, vacancy slows

(TheReporter) - The resurgence of the wine industry in Napa County and beyond is one of the forces driving an increase in warehouse demand in the Napa/Solano region, according to a new report by Colliers International. The resurgence is a leading factor in vacancy stabilizing and declining in thr...

May, 12, 2012 China: Yellow Treasure

(ChinaDaily) - Veteran winemakers know that the quality of the water and the sticky rice isn't enough to guarantee good results. The process has been declared an intangible cultural heritage of the State. Most Shaoxing yellow rice wine can be ready to drink in 90 days, but some is allowed to ferm...

May, 12, 2012 Are celebrity wines worth the price?

(Bites) - There is one overriding reason people will consider buying the new white wine with the big “B” on the label, and it can be summed up by the name above it: Barrymore. Drew Barrymore has gone into the wine business, and her first release is not from California, where so many Hollywood an...

May, 11, 2012 US: GOP senators: Napa Wine Train project 'tax dollar sinkhole'

(News10) - No-bid contracts cost taxpayers big money, and that's one reason the $79 million Napa Valley Wine Train flood-control project has become a "tax dollar sinkhole," two U.S. senators say. In a statement issued Tuesday in response to a California Watch report, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., a...

May, 11, 2012 France government campaign encourages China to look beyond Bordeaux

(Decanter) - The French government is funding a marketing campaign to encourage wine consumers and sommeliers in China to look beyond Bordeaux. Around 400 wines from across France will be included in the three-year campaign, launched in Beijing this month. Tutored tastings for the trade and consu...

May, 11, 2012 US: Updating the Mendocino Winery Shuffle

(Wines&Vines) - With a hearing looming in a Mendocino County court June 9, former winery colleagues Paul Dolan and Tom Thornhill spoke with Wines & Vines this week. Since January, Dolan’s sudden dismissal from the Mendocino Wine Co. (MWC), co-founded in 2004 with Thornhill and his brother Tim Thor...