June, 09, 2010 Brown-Forman Smooth As Tennessee Whisky, Ciena Almost As Sweet As Strawberry Wine

Spirit distiller and seller Brown-Forman posted a 9% dip in fiscal fourth quarter earnings but ends up in the green. Alcoholic beverage company Brown-Forman posted a 9% dip in fiscal fourth quarter earnings today, to $72.7 million, or $0.49 per share, versus $79.6 million, or $0.53 per share, in the...

June, 09, 2010 Polyphenols in red wine and green tea halt prostate cancer growth

New report in the FASEB Journal suggests that disrupting a particular cellular signaling pathway could stop or slow the initiation, promotion, and progression of prostate cancer. In what could lead to a major advance in the treatment of prostate cancer, scientists now know exactly why polyphenols i...

June, 09, 2010 Retail Wine Sales Grew Faster in May

Calif. -- The pace of domestic wine sales accelerated even faster in May than in April, marking the fifth month in a row that off-premise sales beat last year’s results for the same months. Retail scan data as reported by the SymphonyIRI Group showed four-week sales ending May 16 up by 7.1% in dol...

June, 09, 2010 Save the earth, drink box wine

Box wine has come a long way since it was first introduced in the mid 1960s in Australia. Although box wines are popular throughout Australia and even in some parts of Europe, many people in the States consider wines that are sold in a box to be inferior to those sold in glass bottles. Note the conn...

June, 09, 2010 Google goes wine-tasting

Want to see what the Cape wineries have to offer… from the comfort of your desk?South Africa's winelands have become the first vineyards in the world to be covered by Google's innovative StreetView, which allows users to 'fly' through cities and towns around the world.South Africa is the first cou...

June, 08, 2010 Viagra is Champagne's major threat

Champagne's stiffest competition comes not from Prosecco, Cava or English sparkling wine – but from Viagra, according to Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger.Speaking at the Reuters Global Luxury Summit last week, the Taittinger chief executive also predicted that Champagne exports to China will outstrip th...

June, 08, 2010 Bubble war: Is it Champagne or sparkling wine?

(Reuters) - Wine labeling remains a highly confusing affair.The challenges range from the place-specific labels on most French, Italian and Spanish wines (such as Montrachet, Chianti and Rioja) that require a good deal of knowledge to understand what's actually in the bottle, to the continuing use o...

June, 07, 2010 Foster’s Units May Be Targets for Tsingtao, Bright, Reports Say

(Bloomberg) - Foster’s Group Ltd., Australia’s largest brewer, may get bids for its beer and wine units from China’s Bright Food Group Co. and Tsingtao Brewery Co., media reports said today.Bright Food has received information from bankers about Foster’s wine unit, as well as the beer divisi...