February, 13, 2012 Slovenia joins opposition to wine liberalisation plans

(Europolitics) - Slovenia has become the fourteenth EU member state to voice opposition against the liberalisation of vine planting rights, scheduled to begin from 2016, claiming that maintaining the current system “is the right way to balance EU wine production”. In a letter to Jean-Paul Bachy,...

February, 13, 2012 Czech wine tax wins undiluted condemnations

(Ceskapozice) - Czech Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek’s plans to reintroduce excise duties on wine sales have met a rebuff from his own center-right TOP 09 and other parties in parliament. TOP 09 chairman Karel Schwarzenberg, the foreign minister, has come out against the party number two’...

February, 12, 2012 France: Paris wine makers seek recognition for grape growing renaissance

(Telegraph) - Wine makers of Paris are fighting to stage a grape growing renaissance in and around the capital – once France's biggest wine growing region – and are looking to London for inspiration. Mention the vineyards of Paris and most wine experts will roll their eyes and turn up their nose...

February, 12, 2012 US: NY: No consensus on wine in grocery stores

(Auburnpub) - Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent comments opposing the sale of wine in grocery stores, business groups supporting the proposal hope he rethinks his position. According to media reports, Cuomo said the sale of wine in food stores would be “disruptive to many stores, mom-and-pop s...

February, 12, 2012 Festival film tells tale of popular Malbec wine

(APP) - Few things say romance quite like a bottle of wine and night at the movies. Fortunately, a few days before Valentine’s Day, cinema fans will get a taste of both as the new wine documentary “Boom Varietal” screens at 7 p.m. today at Voorhees Hall in New Brunswick as part of the New Jers...

February, 12, 2012 No Motörhead wine for Icelanders, branding too negative

(Icenews) - ÁTVR, Iceland’s public sector alcohol retail monopoly, has refused to sell a red wine marketed under the branding of British rock band Motörhead. The decision was taken because the name is apparently a nod to amphetamine abuse and because the band sings about war, unsafe sex and drug...

February, 11, 2012 AUS: ‘We need farmers’

(TheLand) - GOVERNOR-General Quentin Bryce used her Australia Day address to highlight the importance of careers in agriculture and the vitality of farmers for all Australians. Speaking in a televised address from the Yarralumla Woolshed, Ms Bryce said 2012 would be a year to celebrate farmers an...

February, 11, 2012 Red, white and... green?

(Winnipegfreepress) - Winemakers in California strive for sustainability, but defining the word is tricky.If there was one word we Canadian writers and sommeliers heard tossed around liberally at California wineries, it was "sustainable." It's a term I've found puzzling as it relates to growing g...