May, 10, 2017 Wine and cheese make you smart and healthy, according to new studies

(Marketwatch) - Go ahead — have some cheese with your wine tonight. It turns out that cheese may not be so bad for your health after all. A recent study challenges some of the health concerns around cheese and dairy: Mainly that they are fatty and lead to potential heart attacks or strokes...

May, 10, 2017 Is Glyphosate in Vineyards Dangerous?

(Wines&Vines) - Two recent news reports gave conflicting information about a popular herbicide. “Glyphosate is a likely carcinogen!” exclaimed one. The other said the opposite. Yet other stories reported traces of the herbicide in some wines. It was timely, then, that the Napa...

May, 10, 2017 Cloverdale draws a wine bar, pushes to boost tourism

(PD) - Cloverdale has tried various marketing slogans to try and lure visitors and boost its economy: “Where the vineyards meet the redwoods,” “Genuinely Cloverdale” and “Gateway to the Mendocino Coast” have been trotted out over the past dozen years. Now...

May, 10, 2017 Trump claims absolute immunity from D.C. wine bar's lawsuit

(Reuters) - Lawyers for Donald Trump on Wednesday said the U.S. president has "absolute immunity" from a lawsuit by owners of the Cork Wine Bar in Washington, D.C., who claim that his ownership of a nearby hotel constitutes unfair competition. Trump's lawyers, in seeking a dismissal of the lawsu...

May, 10, 2017 HelloFresh Will Launch Their Own Wine Club This Month

(Food&Wine) - Hot on the heels on the launch of the Martha Stewart  wine shop ,  HelloFresh , a weekly meal plan delivery service, will introduce it’s own monthly  wine  subscription program on May 17th. Subscribers will receive six bottles of red, white, ...

May, 07, 2017 Napa, Sonoma vineyard-worker scarcity sprouts wage growth, alternatives

(NBBJ) - Sales of higher-end wines are making North Coast winegrapes a hot item, but availability of workers to pick them has fallen sharply, driving wages higher, according to a large vineyard owner in the region. The average number of unskilled workers employed locally during the peak sea...

May, 07, 2017 Is This Sparkling Wine Even Better Than Prosecco?

(Refinery29) - British drinkers don't just like Prosecco - they really like it. In 2015, the Italian sparkling wine  overtook Champagne to become the UK's favourite fizzy tipple.  Last year, a supermarket chain even sought to cash in on our penchant for Prosecco by laun...

May, 07, 2017 Report: Raise the Bar for Free Wine Tasting

(Wines&Vines) - Initial findings from a survey of Oregon tasting rooms are intriguing and touch on some of the hot-button issues facing tasting room managers: finding competent staff, providing appropriate compensation and converting tasting room visitors into loyal, ongoing purchasers. Unde...