December, 11, 2011 China: Demand for Australian wine soars as nation's tastes change

(Chinadaily) - Turning 30 is cause for a big party, so when Chang Jie celebrated his 30th birthday at a karaoke bar in Beijing recently, cases of 2009 Chateau Lafite were in high demand. "Bordeaux is best," he said without offering any justification. Then without any swirling, sniffing or sipping...

December, 11, 2011 Fancy a tipple or two? Europe's biggest alcohol warehouse, filled with enough wine to fill 15 Olympic-sized pools

(Dailymail) - It's Europe's biggest warehouse and promises a very merry Christmas - if you like wine. Because between now and the big day an astonishing 11.5 million bottles of wine will be leaving this huge warehouse and wine packaging facility bound for supermarkets, off-licences and bars. T...

December, 11, 2011 Italy: Slow as the mountain: making wine in Etna's shadow

(AFP) - When a would-be winegrower comes to Salvo Foti, Sicily's top wine consultant, for tips on starting a vineyard, he begins with a warning: to make good wine you have to be in it for the long haul. "When they ask me 'What's the first thing I should do?'. I say 'Have children'," Foti told AFP...

December, 10, 2011 Wines market to men using sports, video games and sex-appeal

(Canada) - The wine world is already so masculine, making special efforts to underscore its machismo seems akin to gluing chest hair to Rambo. Nevertheless, ``manly'' wines are the industry's latest fling, in large part due to young men being part of the fastest growing wine consumption demograph...

December, 10, 2011 Top 10 Wine Spas Worldwide

(Gayot) - Since the opening of the world's first official wine spa in the Bordeaux region of France in 1999, high-end spas around the world have followed suit. While the true, trademarked Vinothérapie treatments are only available at Caudalie-affiliated spas like Les Sources de Caudalie in France (...

December, 10, 2011 Can’t wine about $110M in revenue

(NYPost) - Wine drinkers worldwide are calling him the Anti-Christie’s. John Kapon, a 40-year-old New Yorker with a scruffy beard and gravelly voice, has become the world’s biggest wine auctioneer during the span of a few years — and he has uncorked the growth with unlikely methods. Floo...

December, 10, 2011 US: Cork Dork: I-1183 Faces Legal Challenges

Two labor unions have filed suit in King County challenging a rule that initiatives should address a single issue. Initiative 1183, privatizing liquor sales in Washington state, has already been challenged legally before it goes into effect. Under I-1183, state liquor stores will go out of business ...

December, 09, 2011 Why do we get hangovers?

(NewWorldWinemaker) - It’s happened to the best of us and, unfortunately, we all know the feeling: Waking up the next morning, feeling like death warmed up and swearing you’ll never drink again. But what exactly is a hangover and what in wine causes hangovers? For those who don’t know, comm...