March, 26, 2010 Quake-hit Chile winemakers yearn to toast recovery

(Reuters) - Last month's devastating earthquake destroyed 125 million liters (33 million gallons) of Chilean wine -- and with it a little piece of the country's heart. Wine serves as a proxy for Chile's ambitions. Although high in Latin American terms, the living standard here is not at a Europea...

March, 26, 2010 In Germany, a Highway Threatens the Mosel Wine Region

Despite the chill pouring in through the open window next to my desk, spring is here. For me, that means thoughts turn to riesling, German riesling in particular. In a few weeks I will post our wine panel report on the 2008 Mosel kabinetts, a rare and marvelous vintage for these lovely, delicate ...

March, 26, 2010 California company brings wine testing to UCC

Umpqua Community College intends to add a few more letters and a lot of prominence to its wine program with a renowned laboratory promising to open shop on campus. On March 17, ETS Laboratories founder and President Gordon Burns sent a letter to the local college committing to open a wine-testing...

March, 26, 2010 Future of the domestic wine industry is in VQA

Canada - Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor is correct in defending his government's legislative changes because they will redress imbalances that currently favor the Cellared-in-Canada hegemony.Anthony Bristow, chairman of the Winery & Grower Alliance of Ontario and chief operating officer of Grimsby-ba...

March, 25, 2010 Grape genome mapping could boost harvests and wine quality

American researchers have identified specific genetic markers in the grape genome to improve the fruit quality, and disease and pest resistance, and could quicken the development of better grapes. A team comprising computational biologists and geneticists from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Ser...

March, 24, 2010 The 20 wine trends to avoid in 2010

WINESTEIN UNCORKED When I floated to the office the idea of a column on what wine trends should never again enter the mainstream, it quickly transformed from a top 5 list to something like a top 20 in the space of a tweet. Talk soon turned from bad wine trends to spirits and, predictably, beer -...

March, 24, 2010 California Promotes Wine Exports in Europe

Germany - Wineries from Argentina, Chile, New Zealand and South Africa compete fiercely with California vintners to sell more wine in the U.S. market. Yet here at the annual international wine fair, ProWein, these competitors called a truce to jointly promote their wines to export markets around the...

March, 24, 2010 Moderate drinking helps heart, but don't binge

(Reuters) - One or two alcoholic drinks a day can help healthy people-and heart patients-live longer, new research confirms.But the two new studies-one of nearly 250,000 US adults, the other an analysis of eight previous studies of more than 16,000 people with heart disease and other problems relate...