January, 10, 2011 That Glass Of Wine: Harmless Stress Reliever Or Dangerous Coping Mechanism?

Moms plus merlot equals a pretty constant joke among 30-something women. At late-afternoon play dates, you'll often hear a tired mom squeal, "I need wine time to handle whine time!" Then there's that suburban myth about the preschooler who was asked to draw a picture of his family and turned in a...

January, 09, 2011 It’s time to deregulate Tennessee’s wine industry and wineries

HUMBOLDT, TN- How do you create good jobs in the rural counties of Tennessee without millions of dollars in incentives? You deregulate Tennessee’s wine industry and farm wineries. North Carolina has done it. Virginia and Missouri have done it, as well. As you can see, Tennessee has overlooked this...

January, 09, 2011 Privatizing state stores could help plug budget, but true costs unknown

Grabbing a drink in Avonmore takes a bit of planning. The lone Wine & Spirits shop in the Westmoreland County town, a tiny storefront with a sales floor the size of a large living room, is open three days a week, for seven hours each day. ″It's hard to go to the liquor store in a small town,...

January, 08, 2011 Wineries Good for Virginia

Gov. Bob Mcdonnell is ringing in the new year with some new initiatives and Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Todd Haymore announced those plans Friday. Haymore says that promoting the wine industry in Virginia is one of McDonnell's top initiatives in 2011. Curt and Jackie Hartman are ge...

January, 08, 2011 The wine in Spain is very rarely plain

There's no getting away from it. The wines I have enjoyed most over the past few weeks, festive season included, have had something inescapable in common. They have all been from Spain. Should this come us a surprise? Hardly. Spain's extraordinary diversity as a wine-producing nation is no secret...

January, 08, 2011 Wine booming after 40% rise in 2010

Wine investors enjoyed a stellar 2010, with prices for the top vintages rising 40% on surging demand in Asia. Over the twelve months, the 40% rise for fine wine's benchmark index – the Liv-ex 100 – comprehensively beat the return investors gained on the FTSE 100, which rose by 9%....

January, 07, 2011 Vintage Wine Estates acquires Cosentino in Napa

Vintage Wine Estates has acquired Napa Valley’s Cosentino Winery, which ceased trading in November after failing to secure extra finance to cover its debts.Now the Santa Rosa-based Vintage Wine Estates has expanded its premium Napa and Sonoma winery portfolio by purchasing the winery for an undisc...

January, 07, 2011 Rain, Not Sun, Greens This Winery

Paso Robles, Calif.—Thoughts of “green” wineries typically turn toward the sun: In the past decade, dozens if not hundreds of North American wineries have gone at least partly off the power grid by installing arrays of solar panels. If there’s enough sunlight to grow grapes, there’s suffic...