August, 23, 2011 This Woman Helped Turn Spanish Wine Into A $2 Billion Export Industry

It wasn't too long ago that traditional riojas and sherries were the only wines associated with Spain. And while the crazy popularity of Spanish cuisine has definitely bolstered appreciation for the country's wines in America, Katrin Naelapaa, executive director of Wines From Spain, makes it her bus...

August, 23, 2011 AUS: Wine sales dry up as drinkers cut back

THE logic behind Foster's carving off its wine arm into an independently listed company was confirmed yesterday when fresh figures from the Bureau of Statistics showed sales of local wine were suffering their most protracted period of weakness in 15 years. The downturn is tipped to be made all th...

August, 23, 2011 AUS: Foster's reports annual loss of $93m

Australian brewer Foster's has reported an annual loss as it tries to fend off a hostile takeover bid by SABMiller. Foster's reported a loss of 89m Australian dollars ($93m; £56.5m) for the year ending 30 June. Despite the loss, Foster's said it planned to return A$500m to shareholders. Th...

August, 23, 2011 Vintage (BC) wine jars found off Albania

TIRANA, Albania - A US-Albanian archeological mission said yesterday it has found the well-preserved wreck of a Roman cargo ship off Albania’s coast, complete with some 300 wine jars.The 30-yard-long wreck dates to the 1st century BC and its cargo is believed to have been the produce of southern A...

August, 23, 2011 US: Long Island winery bottles 9/11-themed wines to commemorate WTC attacks

A 9/11-themed wine - created to help fundraise for the Ground Zero memorial - has victims' families seeing red. Lieb Family Cellars of Mattituck, L.I., says it will donate up to 10% of each sale of the 9/11 Memorial Commemorative Merlot and 9/11 Memorial Commemorative Chardonnay to the National S...

August, 23, 2011 South Africa wine grown by 'abused' workers

Workers helping to make South Africa's renowned wines are subject to unsafe working conditions and poor housing, a report has said. Human Right Watch says workers on wine and fruit farms face exposure to pesticides and are blocked from forming labour unions. The reports also says these workers...

August, 22, 2011 Fine wine galore! Hong Kong's buried treasure

In December 1941, a munitions bunker near a former British Army base became the last place to fall to the Japanese during the Second World War invasion of Hong Kong. The shells have long since been cleared; now the vast underground vaults are home to an equally precious stock. ...

August, 22, 2011 Why an extra glass of wine (or three) does more harm to older drinkers

You know the story with alcohol. When we’re young, we’re carefree and foolish. We drink too much — sometimes way too much. Then we mature. Get married. Have a family. Become a grown-up. Part of that growing-up process is leaving behind our old drinking habits. While in our student days we c...