July, 02, 2011 Why the French have fallen out of love with wine

It’s just as well the French are losing their taste for wine because many labels are now unaffordable . 'They order this matter,” said Lawrence Sterne, at the beginning of his 18th-century Sentimental Journey, “better in France”. When it comes to wine, they now order it much less frequently....

July, 01, 2011 Francis Ford Coppola's second career as a winemaker

Film legend Francis Ford Coppola is on the road again, promoting his second career as a winemaker. Francis Ford Coppola is having a bit of a nightmare. This is the man who rewrote Hollywood’s rules when he directed The Godfather. Who for Apocalypse Now took on a subject as incandescently contro...

July, 01, 2011 Hungary toasts Poland's EU helm with cask of wine

(AFP) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday gave his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk a 15-litre cask of wine to toast Poland's six-month European Union presidency. "I have brought with me a cask of wine to drink to the success of the Polish presidency," Orban told reporters as he han...

July, 01, 2011 A critique of wine criticism

Doesn't it go without saying that an independent wine critic should not take payment from producers?There are certain subjects in independent wine criticism that you imagine would be beyond discussion: that anyone would be paid by a producer to write a review of their product is one. The fact that t...

July, 01, 2011 China's Bright Food weighs Treasury Wine bid-report

(Reuters) - China's Bright Food Group is considering a bid for Australia's Treasury Wine Estates Ltd (TWE.AX), Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The privately held company has had internal talks about making a bid, Bloomberg said. Officials at Brigh...

June, 30, 2011 Vegan Wine Making Gains With Consumers

Before you take a swig of that delicious Chardonnay to go along with your yummy Savory Vegetable Pot Pie, ask yourself: was this wine made in part with the swim bladder of a fish? Yea, I had no idea that most wines are “clarified” or “fined” – a process that, according to Voxy, removes ...

June, 30, 2011 Red wine and weightlessness studied

(UPI) - U.S. researchers say an ingredient in red wine, resveratrol, may prevent the negative effects that spaceflight and long exposure to zero gravity have on people. A report in the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology describes experiments in rats that simu...

June, 30, 2011 US: New Jersey Wineries on the Brink

New Jersey wineries are facing a very uncertain future today after a last-ditch effort to legalize their remote winery tasting rooms—for many of them their only source of sales—has failed to pass in the New Jersey state legislature. In December 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circu...