April, 15, 2010 TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. Announces Supply Agreement with ETS Laboratories

(TriLink) announced that it has signed an agreement with ETS Laboratories (ETS) to supply CleanAmp™ dNTPs for use in their Scorpions™ Wine Spoilage Detection System. These multiplex assays amplify genetic markers specific to each type of spoilage organism, detecting and quantifying microbial pop...

April, 15, 2010 New Zealand overtakes Germany in UK wine sales

New Zealand is claiming to have overtaken sales of German wine in the UK when looking at country of origin percentage shares.It points to the latest Nielsen data (MAT end March 2010)which shows New Zealand has a 3.3% share of the UK off-trade market and overtaken Germany for the first time. New Zeal...

April, 14, 2010 Construction Continues for UC Davis' Showcase Winery

Davis,CA - The new teaching winery now in the final stages of construction at the University of California, Davis, will be a vast improvement over the school’s present antiquated facility, and it will be far more than a modern science lab for students. It is being built as a site for research to r...

April, 14, 2010 Wine beats stocks regardless of economy, study confirms

Wine is a better investment than equities, especially in a bear market, a study shows.University of Fribourg PhD candidates Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf found that including investment-grade wine in a portfolio increases the portfolio's returns and mitigates risk, particularly during ...

April, 14, 2010 Wine: Natural isn't perfect

Wine is not immune to political correctness or polemics.The latest battlefront in wine is whether that juice you're drinking is "natural."The natural-wine movement has been sweeping France for a few years now, with stylishly dressed millennials in trendy wine bars in affluent urban neighborhoods cel...

April, 13, 2010 Domestic Table Wines Grew By 5.3%

California - Domestic table wine sales through March 21 grew at a healthy 5.3% annual rate over the previous 52-week period, as reflected in the latest retail data from Information Resources Inc. The off-premise market for domestic wines totaled $4.5 billion. In contrast, imports edged up just 0.3% ...

April, 13, 2010 Cornell studying how to improve Finger Lakes Rieslings

Rieslings already are putting the Finger Lakes wine region on the map.A group of Cornell University researchers is trying to make the variety even better. Among them is Anna Katharine Mansfield, an enologist who is nurturing the Riesling Terroir Project, which seeks to determine the defining charac...

April, 13, 2010 Italy winemakers eye tweet sales with social media

(Reuters) - Italian winemakers, usually wedded to centuries-old traditions, are slowly embracing Twitter, blogging and Facebook to boost sales that have been hit by the global economic crisis.Italy, the world's second-biggest wine producer after France, saw export sales drop 6 percent to 3.5 billion...