January, 18, 2012 Bordeaux Winebank Starts Online Sale of 750-Euros-a-Bottle Wine

(Bloomberg) -- Bordeaux Winebank Group, a wine trader that guarantees the origin and storage conditions of wines it offers, started direct sales to businesses such as hotel operators via the Internet. Wine importers, distributors, hoteliers and restaurant owners can buy vintages from Bordeaux-reg...

January, 18, 2012 SA wine consumers on the rise

(MediaClubSouthAfrica) - Traditional stereotypes about wine in South Africa are fading as a new generation of black wine connoisseurs and producers enter the wine scene. South Africa's wine industry is viewed as one of the most progressive and successful of many wine-producing countries. The indu...

January, 17, 2012 Warm winter threatens northern U.S. ice wine industry

(Reuters) - An unusually warm winter is dampening prospects for the eastern American ice wine industry, with fewer frozen grapes being harvested and less of the dessert wine being made, raising prospects for higher prices for consumers. During a long-overdue cold snap in an otherwise balmy winter...

January, 17, 2012 US: N.J. Opens to Direct Wine Shipping

(Wines&Vines) - This morning, Jan. 17, Gov. Chris Christie signed legislation that finally resolves the issue of direct-to-consumer wine shipping New Jersey. The new law revises previous statutes that governed the sale and distribution of wine by New Jersey wineries and creates a new out-of-state wi...

January, 17, 2012 NZ: Scientists prove regional variations in yeast

(Decanter) - Scientists in New Zealand have proved for the first time that wine yeasts vary from region to region. The research, conducted by Velimir Gayevskiy and Dr Matthew Goddard of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland, detected distinct differences between indigenous ...

January, 17, 2012 Wine websites get mixed reviews

(Reuters) - Just as Amazon revolutionized the way books are sold and Groupon has conditioned shoppers to expect daily deals on services and foods, a cluster of websites have upended the stodgy world of wine. At least a half-dozen online websites in the United States, a few in Britain and Australi...

January, 17, 2012 Wikipedia to black out all 3.8 million English-language pages to protest PIPA

(DigitalTrends) - Wikipedia is going black on Wednesday, January 18, to help fight the contentious Protect IP Act (PIPA), which is set to go for a vote before the Senate on January 24. The move, first reported by Neal Mann, digital news editor at Sky News, was announced by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of...

January, 17, 2012 Wine: ‘A favourite Chinese tipple is whisky with cold, sweet green tea on the rocks’

(Scotsman) - UK economic recovery is believed to depend on our success in increasing sales around the world, so Scotch whisky – with exports topping £3 billion and rising – could prove a useful case study. The oldest family-owned distiller, William Grant & Sons, certainly think so. It commis...