July, 12, 2011 Gallo's Growing Barefoot Brand Is No. 1

Sutter Home is No. 2, while total domestic retail wine sales increased 7% in June. E. & J. Gallo Winery’s fast-growing Barefoot brand remained No. 1 in retail sales for the 52 weeks ending June 13, with $255 million in sales, according to SymphonyIRI Group, a Chicago-based market research firm. Wi...

July, 12, 2011 Wrong temperature can spoil wine's taste

The strange thing is that we all should have known better, but the day was so nice and the people so enjoyable that no one really complained. It was an event staged by a winery for a small group of media people, all of whom have been in the wine writing biz for decades, and the day was so lovely ...

July, 12, 2011 Viña Concha y Toro becomes 'world's first' winery to measure water footprint

Chilean wine producer Viña Concha y Toro has announced it has teamed up with local think tank Fundación Chile and NGO the Water Footprint Network to become the first winery in the world to measure the water footprint of the wine it produces. The company said the footprint, which was calculated ...

July, 12, 2011 Australia Puts Health Warnings On Alcohol

SYDNEY -- Australia's liquor industry launched a voluntary program to label its products with health warnings Tuesday, possibly to pre-empt future criticism that it is contributing to excessive drinking that is part of the national culture. About 80 percent of alcohol sold in the country – beer...

July, 12, 2011 India: Wine makers may turn to grape brandy to combat oversupply

Bangalore: The R400-crore wine industry is facing a crippling problem of excess production, with 25 million litres lying unsold at the end of April, the close of harvest season this year. This has forced some of the wine makers to eye the premium grape brandy segment to wriggle out of this situat...

July, 12, 2011 US: Baseball's new chant: Get your wine here!

(Reuters Life!) - Beer, long the preferred beverage at baseball games, is seeing some competition from wine as North American stadiums go up market and increase their beverage offerings. Wine has been seen as the beverage of choice by the upper classes, while beer and hotdogs have been staple fare a...

July, 12, 2011 Red Wine Counters Effects of Microgravity

We hope the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on her final mission remembered to pack a few bottles of red wine -- a smooth merlot, or light and fruity pinot noir, maybe even a robust malbec with a bit of kick to it. That's because, according to researchers in France, drinking red wine ca...

July, 12, 2011 US: Hess buys Sonoma pinot specialist MacPhail Family Wines

MacPhail Family Wines, a highly-regarded pinot noir specialist in the Russian River Valley, has been acquired by the Napa-based Hess Collection. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal included the MacPhail brand as well as existing inventory. The winery facility in Healdsburg was not in...