June, 07, 2011 UK: 'Chateau London' offers urban home-grown wine

(AFP) – In 2007, urban regeneration specialist Richard Sharp was on holiday in France and became fascinated with the "community spirit" of French villages during the harvest, wondering whether the same could be achieved in Britain. "A lot of people have vines (in London) but don't know what to ...

June, 06, 2011 US: History-Making $100 Million Milestone Surpassed as Napa Vintners Bring in $7.3 Million at Charity Event

(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the first time in its 31 year history, rain—and lots of it—fell on the main event of Napa Valley’s renowned charity wine auction held on the lawn of Meadowood Napa Valley in St Helena, Saturday, June 4. While Mother Nature opened up the skies and let it pour, the bidders r...

June, 06, 2011 What's in a Name? Wine, Economics, and Terroir

Today, I'm pleased to offer a temporary respite from analysis of climate change policy (and other environmental policies, for that matter), while remaining well within the general province of environmental and natural resource economics. I do this through a merger of profession and avocation, in my...

June, 06, 2011 Petrus barcode switch 'tip of iceberg'

The 23-year-old, who has not been named, was caught last month in a Leclerc supermarket in Trélisssac, Dordogne, having changed barcodes, replacing the indicated price of about €2,300 per bottle with €2.50 labels, according to Agence France Presse. But for every person caught, many more get ...

June, 06, 2011 Shipwreck Champagne fetches 'record' price

A 200-year-old bottle of Champagne recovered from a Baltic shipwreck has fetched a record price at auction. The bottle – identified as Veuve Clicquot- was part of a cache of 168 bottles found last summer in a wrecked schooner dating from 1825-30 in Finland's Åland archipelago. It was sold to a...

June, 06, 2011 US: TABC collaborates with global delivery companies to stop illegal wine shipments into Texas.

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) is collaborating with FedEx Express and FedEx Ground, subsidiaries of FedEx Corp., (Fed Ex) and United Parcel Services (UPS) to thwart the illegal shipment of wine into Texas. On May 4, 2011, TABC met with representatives from UPS and FedEx to discuss o...

June, 06, 2011 US: Ag industry faces labor woes in immigration debate

WASHINGTON – The agriculture industry fears a disaster is on the horizon if the one bit of new immigration policy that Congress seems to agree on becomes law. A plan to require all American businesses to run their employees through E-Verify, a program that confirms each is legally entitled to w...

June, 06, 2011 Fetzer Reborn: Concha y Toro’s Big Plans for California

Most consumers didn’t realize it from the almost surreptitious announcement, but one of California’s main wine producers got a huge boost a few weeks ago when Fetzer, the iconic Mendocino County wine company, was sold to a Chilean few Americans know much about. Concha y Toro, a large, 28 mill...