October, 10, 2010 Nearly 1,000 enter Wine Country Marathon

Running was not a solo sport for the 947 people who leaped into action just after sunrise Sunday and paced their way through Dry Creek Valley for the Wine Country Marathon. Saundra Small-Stampo, 48, of Palo Alto completed her third half marathon holding her 29-year-old son's hand as she pushed th...

October, 10, 2010 Turkish wine strong against French, Italian rivals, says expert

Turkish wine has acquired the level to compete with its French and Italian competitors, according to a wine company chairman who added that in the last term Chile, Australia, California, Spain and Greece have almost equaled the former two in quality. A board member of Yazgan Şarapçılık, a pro...

October, 09, 2010 Vintners turn to refillables

SANTA ROSA — Forget the cellar; everyday wines are meant to be poured, not stored. Which has led a handful of wineries to turn to the refillable approach in hopes of putting a cork in their bottles' environmental impact. Or, as Idaho vintner Stephen Meyer puts it, "Think green, drink red." M...

October, 09, 2010 'Most expensive' Riesling auctioned

The most expensive Riesling ever, according to a German auctioneer, has been sold in Germany. A rare double magnum of G-Max 2009 dry Riesling made by Weingut Keller was sold for €3,998.40 to an anonymous Luxembourg collector late last month. ‘That price is the highest for a young dry Rieslin...

October, 08, 2010 Can South African wine go global?

I couldn't help it! But I just had to do another story about South Africa's wine industry. As someone said to me on twitter recently, I am starting to sound like I cover the "wine beat," which doesn't sound like a bad thing to me! Besides the quaffing benefits, I also think South Africa's wine in...

October, 08, 2010 Central Europe’s biggest wine secret

Had any good Slovenian wine lately? Of course not, at least not most of you. The tiny country in central Europe is hardly on the radar of most drinkers in Canada – and for good reason. We see few bottles here from that former region of what used to be Yugoslavia. Yet the country, which gained inde...

October, 07, 2010 Water to wine

Most observers would agree that the style of wine which now dominates the high end of the wine rankings and price scale has evolved over the last couple of decades, toward higher alcohol, higher extract, higher pH and higher levels of new oak. One of the consequences of chasing these high scores is ...

October, 07, 2010 Paris Oil Drillers Target 100 Billion Barrels Near Brie, Wine

(Bloomberg) -- Pierre Henry farms wheat and corn east of Paris in an area famous for its Brie cheese. The next big hit might be crude oil. Henry’s farm, 78 kilometers from the French capital, sits atop what geologists call the Paris Basin, an area bordering Champagne and Chablis vineyards that str...