February, 02, 2012 Study Unlocks Secrets of Red Wine Chemical

(ABCNews) - If you love to sit back and sip a glass of cabernet or pinot noir, you can feel good knowing that the health benefits of red wine are now a little less mysterious. Scientists have uncovered how resveratrol, the chemical found in grape skins, peanuts and dark chocolate, works in mice to h...

February, 02, 2012 US: Not your average Super Bowl battle: Wine vs. beer

(Nashuatelegraph) - As the Patriots face off against the Giants for Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday, we can expect football frenzy to reach new heights. Of course, as any enthusiast for the event will readily attest, it’s not all about the game. Over the past four decades, the Super Bowl has become...

February, 02, 2012 Hitler wine sales deemed legal in Austria

(AP) - Officials say they have stopped investigating a man after finding no evidence that his sales of wine and schnapps with Adolf Hitler on the label were breaking a law against glorifying the Nazi era. State prosecution official Heinz Rusch says the investigation has ended because of lack of p...

February, 02, 2012 US: Wine producers want to make sure what’s on the label truly reflects what’s in the bottle

(Washingtonpost) - Napa Valley wine producers will go a long way to protect their good name, all the way to Thailand if necessary. That’s the latest country which has awarded Geographic Indication status to Napa wine, which means they’ve agreed not to allow sales of wine labeled “Napa” if...

February, 01, 2012 France: Louis Latour looks at the bigger picture

(Thedrinksbusiness) - Burgundy domain Louis Latour is hoping to encourage producers to work together to promote greater biodiversity and improve vineyard management with a project dubbed “Paysage de Corton”.Launched last year, the project was designed to make the producers in Corton “look at t...

February, 01, 2012 Okanagan wine family expands into California

(Vancouversun) - One of B.C.’s oldest and best-known wine-producing families is expanding into California’s Napa Valley as a way to build an international brand. The Stewart family, which owns Quails’ Gate Estate Winery of West Kelowna, is undertaking what it calls a “significant expansio...

February, 01, 2012 Burgundy leads non-Bordeaux trade – but not DRC

(Thedrinksbusiness) - Comte de Voguë and not Domaine de la Romanée-Conti led the trade in non-Bordeaux wines last month according to Liv-ex. Voguë accounted for 12.3% of non-Bordeaux trading during January and DRC only 8% “a signal perhaps”, said the index, “that more of the region’s lead...

February, 01, 2012 Dom Pérignon chief debunks acidity “myth”

(Thedrinksbusiness) - Dom Pérignon cellar master Richard Geoffroy described the connection between acidity and age-worthiness in wine as a “myth” during a tasting of the Champagne house’s new release from the notoriously warm 2003 vintage. Commenting on the decision by many of his peers not t...