October, 02, 2011 Canada: B.C. MP hopes to let wine pour across provincial borders

(TheProvince) - British Columbians should be able to bring home wine from a visit to Ontario’s Niagara grape-growing region and vice versa, says a B.C. MP. Dan Albas, Conservative MP for Okanagan-Coquihalla, plans to introduce a private member’s bill on Monday in the House of Commons that wou...

October, 02, 2011 Petrus, Latour Top Sellout $3.5 Million Auction on Asian Demand

(Bloomberg) -- Sotheby’s autumn auctions began yesterday with a wine sale in which every bottle sold, fetching HK$27.2 million ($3.5 million) and led by 12 bottles of 1990 Chateau Petrus at HK$338,800. The auction of vintages from a private American cellar was the 16th straight sold-out wine ev...

October, 02, 2011 US: Machines replacing men in the vineyard

(PressDemocrat) - In the dark of night, the Pellenc machine rolled like a giant Transformer-like insect through the vineyard, seemingly swallowing up vines as it gently shook the chardonnay grapes free. The canopies trembled almost imperceptibly as the mechanical harvester approached at a little mor...

October, 02, 2011 Wine in Lebanon: the grapes of wrath

(TheGuardian) - In search of a glass in a country where the wine industry dates back 5,000 years and has survived wars and intolerant religions."When we started planting the vineyard, we found a cluster bomb on the ground that had been dropped on the village in 1983. The army said it would take two ...

October, 01, 2011 My natural instincts

(FT) - Fine wine production is at a crossroads between authentic and over-manipulated. In the super-sensual world of wine, scientists tend to lurk in back rooms – in the often malodorous small labs attached to wineries where they analyse what is produced and save it from disaster, or behind the wa...

October, 01, 2011 Bordeaux 2011 'rollercoaster' vintage comes to an end

(Decanter) - As the 2011 Bordeaux harvest comes to an end, oenologists describe it as a rollercoaster marked by wild fluctuatons in the weather. The rapidly-changing weather patterns and temperatures led to a risk of botrytis, and many properties have harvested grapes that did not reach full phenoli...

October, 01, 2011 Spain and Portugal begin harvest after 'difficult' year

(Decanter) - High temperatures in August and September have led to an early harvest across Spain.Scarce rainfall in the same period also means that yields are down for many regions including Rioja and Castilla-La Mancha, by as much as 30% in some cases. Notable exceptions are the white wine regio...

October, 01, 2011 US: Patricia Kluge loses fortune, but not her resolve

(SeattleTimes) - Patricia Kluge appeared for years to be one of the nation's wealthiest divorcées, with a breathtaking Virginia mansion, Albemarle, an ample jewel collection and a river of cash from her ex-husband, media magnate John Kluge. After filing for bankruptcy in June, she has a day job....