September, 14, 2017 Drink your wine and eat it too: American business tackles wine waste by turning it into flour

(ABC) - Fancy yourself some riesling and apple cinnamon pancakes for breakfast, or perhaps a cab sav brownie? One business in the United States has embraced a 'drink your wine and eat it too' attitude turning grape waste into wine flour. Hilary Niver-Johnson makes wine flour in Finger Lakes, ...

September, 13, 2017 BIKE MADE FROM WHISKY BARRELS ROLLED OUT

(TDB) - A bike made with staves from old Glenmorangie whisky casks has gone on sale at an eye-watering $6,950 a pop in what its makers claim to be a world first. The fine specimen, called the Glenmorangie Original, is the fruit of a collaboration between Glenmorangie and Oregon-based bike m...

September, 13, 2017 Parker and the Pope – the Infallibility Fallacy

(Wine-Searcher) - Do you trust professional palates? Oliver Styles wonders how reliable they really are.   Ever tasted a wine on a summer's holiday, thought it was the greatest wine in the world, bought yourself a bottle or 12, taken it home and opened it several months later o...

September, 13, 2017 Innovation Wins for Wine Bottling and Leveling

(Wines&Vines) - Six companies claimed prizes for producing the most innovative winemaking products today in Munich, where exhibitors had set up mammoth displays of vinification and bottling equipment across 15 large trade halls for the first-ever SIMEI@drinktec show. The Italian wine trade o...

September, 13, 2017 Red wine: the unexpected health benefits

(Telegraph) - Another day, another story about red wine being good for you. Today's happy news comes from Australia, where a member of the national Wine Research Institute has been extolling the virtues of a drop of red. "People that drink a moderate amount of wine regularly, particularly with...

September, 13, 2017 Bulgaria to Process Over 200,000 t of Grapes into Wine

(Novinite) - Bulgaria's agriculture ministry said it expects more than 200,000 tonnes of grapes from this year's harvest to be processed into wine, reported See News. "This year's harvest is of excellent quality, which is a prerequisite for quality wines," agriculture ministe...

September, 13, 2017 Canadian giant Peller to acquire Black Hills, Gray Monk, Tinhorn

(Greatnorthwestwine) - Canadian giant  Andrew Peller Limited  announced today that it has entered agreements to purchase  Tinhorn Creek Vineyards ,  Black Hills Estate Winery  and  Gray Monk Estate Winery  – three of British Columbia’s most important w...

September, 12, 2017 Ohio family regains full ownership of Napa’s Mayacamas Vineyards

Mayacamas Vineyards in the Napa Valley is now under 100% ownership of the Schottenstein family of Columbus, Ohio, the family announced. The Schottensteins, owners of retailers such as American Eagle Outfitters and DSW, had been partners in Mayacamas Vineyards with Charles Banks and his wife, Ali...