August, 18, 2010 Northwest Winemaking Schools Find Funds

Richland,WA -- Students may be getting ready to hit the books, but Northwest viticulture and enology schools are hitting pocketbooks in search of funding for new facilities. The good news is, the pocktetbooks aren’t hard to crack. The past year saw a historically high level of donations to Washin...

August, 18, 2010 Scientists unveil new whisky biofuel

Car owners could soon be filling up their tanks with a new whisky-derived fuel, according to scientists at a Scottish University.Edinburgh's Napier University has created a new biofuel, which can be used in ordinary cars without any special adaptions.It uses the two main by-products of the whisky pr...

August, 18, 2010 Moderate Wine Drinking Stimulates the Brain

People that moderately drink alcohol, especially wine, have better performances at cognitive tests, a prospective study of 5033 men and women in the Tromsø Study in northern Norway reports.Wine has several antioxidants, or polyphenols, and other substances that help reduce cognitive decline caused ...

August, 17, 2010 All that glitters isn't gold, some of it is wine

(Reuters) - Like gold, top wines are highly prized, represent wealth and are selling near their historical highs. Prices of the five premier cru Bordeaux -- Chateaux Lafite Rothschild, Haut-Brion, Margaux, Latour and Mouton-Rothschild, and the grand crus of Burgundy, particularly Romanee-Conti, are ...

August, 17, 2010 Boisset Upgrades Raymond Vineyards

St. Helena, CA -- Raymond Vineyards has long been an overlooked force in Napa Valley. Established by descendants of a Beringer Vineyards founder in 1971, it was a solid producer of good wines, including some of the valley’s better buys and some excellent high-end wines, but never attracted much a...

August, 17, 2010 Militants destroy GMO research vines

Militants opposed to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have destroyed a plantation of GM vines at a leading French research centre in Alsace.Some 60 activists broke into the compound, near Colmar in eastern France, at dawn on Sunday. The centre was studying potential solutions to the grapevine ...

August, 17, 2010 Global warming may change wine map

NEW YORK - The wine industry may be among the very few in which a leading figure will smile broadly when asked about climate change and declare, “I love it.” Egon Müller, owner of the famed Scharzhof estate in Germany’s Saar Valley, made the comment at Riesling Rendezvous, a conference in Bel...

August, 17, 2010 Some Oklahoma wine grapes to rot on vines

Harvest is under way at Oklahoma vineyards, but some grapes will be left to rot on the vine because of poor sales, growers said.Mack Hayes quit watering some of his vines this summer when it became clear he wouldn't sell all his grapes to wineries. "If you can't move them, there's no need to harves...