November, 27, 2010 PA: Store wine kiosks could be short-lived

HARRISBURG -- If proposals to privatize state liquor stores gain momentum, new self-serve wine kiosks could go the way of eight-track tapes and floppy disks. The wine-dispensing contraptions first appeared in Pennsylvania grocery stores just five months ago, and already some lawmakers warn they coul...

November, 27, 2010 The story behind China's wine revolution: I'll have a bottle of castle Shandong 2010

China is on the verge of becoming a wine superpower, and what is even more remarkable is that the man spearheading this vinicultural revolution isn't a Communist Party leader but an Oxford-educated Yorkshireman with a traditional Scottish castle at the heart of his vineyard.Nestled at the bottom of ...

November, 27, 2010 High End Premium California Wines Now in New Eco-Packages that Replace Traditional Glass Bottles

According to FOURGREEN Wine Company, the major pollution in the wine industry comes from the manufacture of glass bottles. New eco-packaging has begun to replace traditional glass bottles on United States store shelves. The new packages stay fresh for 6-8 weeks after opening, reduce trash going into...

November, 27, 2010 Canada: Who's the wine industry's daddy?

Historian Alun Hughes started researching the widely-heralded father of Canadian wine as part of a larger book on Niagara's wine industry.He didn't expect to possibly rewrite history. For years, nearly every book referencing Ontario's wine history has proclaimed Johann Schiller as the so-called fat...

November, 26, 2010 Historic vineyards purchased

Booth Bella Oaks has purchased the historic, 18-acre Bella Oaks Vineyard in Rutherford. Originally planted by Barney and Belle Rhodes in 1973, grapes from this Rutherford Bench vineyard have been used for the production of the Heitz Bella Oaks vineyard-designated wines. The 2007 vintage will be ...

November, 26, 2010 Fingerprinting red wine

A sensor that can discriminate between different tannins and be used to fingerprint a wide variety of red wines to confirm their authenticity has been developed by US scientists. Eric Anslyn and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin and University of California Davis have developed a s...

November, 25, 2010 Guess what! Wine even fights cavities!

New research shows that drinking wine and eating cranberries can help ward off cavity-causing bacteria. Dental researchers from the University of Rochester say that cranberry and wine can fight against Streptococcus mutans, which invades mouths after meals. S. mutans prey on sugar residue left on te...

November, 25, 2010 BANKING: Ag lending landscape in Wine Country may be heating up

TEMECULA -- The nation's wounded commercial banks have either stopped paying or substantially trimmed the dividends to investors that were common before the Great Recession landed on Main Street.But consider the quirky structure of the government-sponsored American Ag Credit, however, with a $275 mi...