February, 07, 2012 US: Wine warehouse arsonist gets 27 years in prison

(Pressdemocrat) - A former California wine keeper convicted of destroying more than 4.5 million bottles in a warehouse fire was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in prison. A federal judge in Sacramento also ordered Mark Anderson to pay $70.3 million to customers who lost their premium collections in...

February, 07, 2012 When Grapevines Will Not Die

(Wines&Vines) - Considering how much cash and work growers spend to keep grapevines healthy, they are surprisingly hard to kill. It’s easy to rip vines out or cut them down, but that doesn’t usually kill them. Living remnants of the roots will remain, hosting pathogens and pests that could threa...

February, 07, 2012 Barley wine’s not just for winter nights

(Washingtonpost) - Like the terms jumbo shrimp, working holiday and pretty ugly, barley wine appears to be an oxymoron. The federal government recognizes the potential for confusion, and so requires brewers to slap the cumbersome phrase “barley wine-style ale” on the label of this strongest o...

February, 07, 2012 Wine's Three Biggest Lies

(WineSpectator) - Why good wine lovers tell bad lies. 1. If You Like It, It Is Good. This is, without question, the biggest lie of them all. I can't tell you the number of times I've heard wine lovers—fellow writers, merchants, consumers—serve up this whopper. Why do they do it? The answer is...

February, 07, 2012 How Global Economic Shifts Changed the Wine Industry — For Better and For Worse

(Time) - The international wine market was a favorite subject for classical economists in the 18th and 19th centuries to help explain the benefits of free trade. Adam Smith advocated free trade in his opus, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. He wrote against the backdrop...

February, 07, 2012 BERGER: The art of wine description

(Pressdemocrat) - Describing what a wine tastes like is an art form that isn't taught in any school and is best created by those with an exalted sense of the absurd. I have seen wine reviewers who wax so poetic that the prose turns scarlet, as if embarrassed to be so manipulated. A wine can't ...

February, 07, 2012 GTREE(TM) Set To Revolutionize Sustainable Label Offerings

/CSRwire/ - Following years of research, testing and development, G3 Enterprises is now offering GTREE™ – an environmentally sustainable, high-performance wine label paper which was developed for use on all bottling lines, including those utilizing high-speed and mobile bottling application equi...

February, 07, 2012 UK: Magnum Tonic Wine breaches alcohol marketing rules for hinting at increased sexual performance

(Thedrum) - A drink called Magnum Tonic Wine has breached rules on alcohol marketing for claiming it could make the drinker better in bed. The Portman Group's Independent Complaints Panel rapped the product for "suggesting an association with sexual success and enhancement of physical capabilitie...