January, 28, 2012 What's healthier: Wine versus beer

(Timesofindia) - Wine: An acquired taste, 3.5 oz. of wine has 85 calories. Beer: A strong & earthy flavor, 12 oz of beer has 153 calories Production and ingredients of wine: The natural fermenting procedure of grapes, leads to the production of wine. The best quality wine is devoid of any kin...

January, 27, 2012 Georgia Says Wine Exports Rise Despite Russian Import

(Rferl) - According to Georgia’s state statistics agency, the country’s wine exports jumped nearly 40 percent in value last year to more than $54 million. That’s below the figures of 2005, when Georgia exported more than $80 million worth of wine. The industry was damaged when Russia sto...

January, 27, 2012 Michel Rolland Turns Wine To Water in Africa

/PRNewswire/ -- World-famous winemaker Michel Rolland built his reputation by working wonders in the cellar. Now he's doing miracles of a different sort by turning his South African wine into water for Ethiopians in desperate need.A crisis of epic proportions is unfolding in Ethiopia, where every da...

January, 27, 2012 Winery Tasting Room Woes

(Wines&Vines) - Demand from wineries has inspired 3-year-old WISE Academy to offer a new service—mystery shopping. The educational group (the acronym stands for Wine Industry Sales Education) decided to offer the service as an outgrowth of one of its most popular programs, a course for potential o...

January, 27, 2012 US: California wine industry struggles to keep pace with demand

(WesternFarmpress) - After two consecutive years of light grape crops, and a dry start to the 2012 growing season, a standing room crowd of 2,200 packed the Hyatt Regency Ballroom on Tuesday morning to mull the state of the wine industry at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium. On the upside, atten...

January, 27, 2012 US: Record Numbers Attend 2012 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium

(BUSINESS WIRE)--The largest wine show of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium broke its own record this week by drawing a crowd of 12,400 guests to the Sacramento Convention Center. Visitors from every corner of the globe, including Afghanistan, Australia, South Af...

January, 27, 2012 UK: Own-label wine sales top £1bn

(Harpers) - Own-label wine brands have broken through the £1 billion sales barrier for the first time. A sales increase of 12% in the year to December 24 took sales of own-labels to £1.059 million, according to Nielsen off-trade data. Volumes rose 5% to 20.1 million cases. The figures do not t...

January, 26, 2012 Wine basics ain’t basic

(NapaValleyRegister) - Wine once was simple beverage — the product of fermented grape juice. But that was when it was a simple quaff with little to recommend it. And in many places in the world, it still is just that. However, fine wine is one of the most complicated of subjects, taking years t...