June, 28, 2017 Wine Executive Charles Banks Sentenced to Four Years for Fraud

(WineSpectator) - Wine executive Charles Banks was sentenced to four years in federal prison yesterday for defrauding retired NBA star Tim Duncan of millions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery also ordered Banks, a financial adviser and the founder of Terroir Life, which owns or manages nea...

June, 27, 2017 Turn a winery story into effective marketing

(Meininger) - Wine is inherently a discovery category. And people want to unearth, uncover, and reveal a story, much as they do with wine. While select wine audiences may be interested in the facts, figures, and data, it is the story that draws people in, to become a part of the brand, and ideally ...

June, 27, 2017 Danica Patrick Apparently Can Make ‘Intense And Lively’ Bottle Of Wine

(NESN) - It probably doesn’t taste as sweet as her first NASCAR victory will, but Danica Patrick’s wine apparently is pretty easy on the pallet. Patrick’s winery in California’s Napa Valley, Somnmium Vineyard, released it’s first wine in 2014. The Cabernet Sauv...

June, 27, 2017 Santa Barbara OKs Contested Tasting Room

(Wines&Vines) - Seven years after first submitting plans to develop an estate winery tasting room on his family’s 130 acres in the Santa Ynez Valley, Michael Larner of Larner Vineyards finally received approval from the Santa Barbara Planning Commission last month, with the caveat that ta...

June, 27, 2017 CHINA TO CERTIFY 16 ‘ESTATE WINE’ PRODUCERS

(TDB) - Sixteen wineries from China’s Beijing, Hebei, Xinjiang and Ningxia provinces, believed to represent a higher quality of domestic wine production, are set to be certified as ‘estate wine’ producers. The 16 wineries comprise four wineries from Xinjiang, including Tia...

June, 27, 2017 People Can’t Get Enough of Trader Joe’s Canned Wine

(Fortune) - Though beer and barbecue have always been an American pastime, wine is quickly making its way into the picture.  Americans are falling in love with the drink,  and they consumed a record  913 million gallons of wine in 2015  according to The Wine Institute. Trader...

June, 27, 2017 Producing Wine in Space Is ‘Possible,’ Says NASA Scientist

(Food&Wine) - But let’s just say it’s not high on their list of priorities. In the past couple years, we’ve already seen how NASA astronauts on the International Space Station are  not only growing , but  actually eating  produce harves...

June, 23, 2017 What Will the Next Wine Megatrend Be?

(WSJ) - I WAS WALKING through a wine shop recently when a wine in a blue bottle caught my eye. Had the winemaker—or, more likely, wine marketer—decided this disco-bright color was one that would draw buyers or did the contents require a colorful cover up? I spotted several other bott...