July, 13, 2010 Southern Wine & Spirits of Florida to Contribute to State's Step Up For Students Program

Southern Wine and Spirits of America, Inc.,the nation’s leading wine and spirits distributor, announced today that it plans to participate in the State of Florida’s Step Up For Students Program. This effort is an initiative of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program and provides private-schoo...

July, 12, 2010 Cradle of wine-making, Georgia looks to foreign markets

(AFP) - Sipping ruby-red Saperavi wine at his factory in eastern Georgia, Donato Lanati launched into a fervent ode to the ex-Soviet republic's ancient wine-making traditions. "Georgia is the birthplace of wine. It has millennia-long tradition of wine-making, but its excellent wines are an absolute...

July, 12, 2010 Arrowood wine production moves to Oakville

In another example of wine industry cost cutting efforts, Jackson Family Wines is relocating production of Arrowood wines from the original Glen Ellen winery to another facility in Oakville.The Arrowood tasting room will remain open. “It's just reactionary to the recession,” said Kelly Keagy, a...

July, 12, 2010 European producers push for fine wines in China

China (AFP) – Wine-loving China, the world's fifth-biggest consumer, is not known for making top-quality wine but its potential is drawing elite vintners like Spain's Torres and France's Lafite. "We are looking to make the best wine possible, but not necessarily the best wine in the world," said G...

July, 12, 2010 Wine could boost memory and learning ability

MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has found that Resveratrol, which is found in wine and activates a group of enzymes known as sirtuins, might now help to boost memory and brainpower. MIT researchers have reported that Sirtuin1which promotes memory and brain flexibility, might also l...

July, 11, 2010 Browning susceptibility of white wine and antioxidant effect of glutathione

Glutathione (GSH) content and other physicochemical parameters of thirteen white wines originated from Lebanon were studied in relation to their browning capacity; the impact of pH, total sulphur dioxide and total phenol content into the browning susceptibility of the wine was shown. The effect of G...

July, 10, 2010 Australia launches multi-million dollar campaign in China

Top Australian winemakers just finished touring China this week to inaugurate an AU$2m per year campaign there. The new campaign is called A+ Australian Wine and has been developed by Wine Australia, the government-based wine body. 'Just being “good” and saying “Australia” on the label is no...

July, 10, 2010 The U.K.’s $1.3 Million Government Wine Cellar

In London, the political news cycle has been dominated by the subject of public-sector cuts. Since winning the election in May, Conservative Chancellor George Osborne has identified more than £6 billion worth of savings in a bid to trim the U.K’s £156 billion budget deficit. Prime Minister David...