August, 16, 2017 E. & J. Gallo Winery Announces Acquisition Of Luxury California Brandy, Germain-Robin

/PRNewswire/ - E. & J. Gallo Winery (Gallo) announced today that it has purchased Germain-Robin, California's first luxury brandy. In 1981, Ansley J. Coale Jr. had a chance encounter along Highway 101 in Northern California with Hubert Germain-Robin of...

August, 16, 2017 NIELSEN: US WINE SALES STRONGER THAN BEER

(TDB) - Sales of wine and spirits across the US on- and off-trade grew at a faster rate than beer sales, the latest data from Nielsen has shown. In the 52 weeks to June 2017, wine sales in the on-trade across the US rose 1.5%, with spirits up 1.6%, the market research analysts found, as bee...

August, 15, 2017 Making Sense of Organic Wine

(WineSearcher) - Do you know your natural from your biodynamic? Our new series aims to clear up a muddy topic. The wine industry's chemical romance of decades past has largely – but not entirely – cooled. The degree to which this has happened varies by producer and (literally in regi...

August, 15, 2017 RYANAIR MAKES CALLS TO CURB AIRPORT DRINKING

(TDB) - Budget airline Ryanair has called for a two drink limit at airports after it was revealed that the number of people arrested for being drunk at UK airports and on board flights had risen by 50% in the last year. It follows a  BBC  ‘Panorama’  investigatio...

August, 15, 2017 Summer Wine Growth Underscores Hot Market for Wine

(Wines&Vines) - July has traditionally been the slowest month of the year for wine sales, but steady growth this summer is challenging the pattern. U.S. wine sales totaled $2.8 billion in July 2017, up 4% from July 2016, according to market-research firm bw166. T his boosted sales in th...

August, 15, 2017 Duckhorn Wine Company buys Central Coast Pinot pioneer Calera

(SFChronicle) - Napa Valley’s Duckhorn Wine Company has acquired Calera Wine Company, the pioneering Central Coast Pinot Noir producer. The sale includes the Calera brand, winemaking facility, tasting room, estate vineyards and all inventory. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. &...

August, 15, 2017 Expensive Wine Doesn’t Taste as Good as We Think It Does Says Study

(Foodandwine) - If you’re looking to feel validated in your  conservative wine-buying habits , look no further. A new study found that a high price tag on a bottle of wine tricks our brains into thinking it tastes better than a lower-priced bottle, even when the wines are identical. S...

August, 03, 2017 Dave Phinney is No Prisoner to Wine Rules

(OrangeCoast) -  You’d have to be living under a pile of schist to not know winemaker Dave Phinney. He created The Prisoner zinfandel blend about a decade ago and it has since been sold twice to wine business monoliths. In an industry known for standards and tradition, Phinney does thing...