April, 26, 2017 Science Says Practice Will Make You A Better Wine Taster, So Drink Up

(Elitedaily) - I live in a neighborhood where the grocery store closes at 8 pm and the liquor store stays open ’til 9 pm. Now that you have a firm grasp my town’s priorities, I’m here to paint a picture of my usual trip to the quaint  wine  hub on the b...

April, 26, 2017 Blue Wine Is Now Available for Pre-order in the US

(Foodandwine) - Gik, the Spanish brand of blue wine that has become famous for being blue wine, is finally headed for the United States. Though an exact date of does not appear to be set, the brand has started letting American customers put in pre-orders on its BlueWine.us website . For those w...

April, 25, 2017 Napa County says groundwater picture continues to be good

(NVR) - Napa Valley’s annual groundwater checkup yielded the verdict that the water table in the world-famous grapegrowing region is “generally very shallow” and that the basin is “full.” There are problem spots, such as the Petra Drive area northeast of the...

April, 25, 2017 Wine’s Orient Express

(WineSpectator) - Robert Yang is a Chinese wine success story—the self-made man who brought the chain wine shop to the world's most populous country. For nearly 20 years, the former hotel manager rode China's wave of thirst for Western wine & spirits, by becoming a distributor, retaile...

April, 24, 2017 Shock, Horror as $1000 Napa Wine Lives Up to Hype

(Wine-Searcher) - Tireless adventurer W. Blake Gray tries some new things in the morning – and likes one of them. I had a $1000 bottle of wine for breakfast. I'm going to tell you all about the wine: how it was made, what it tastes like, and why it worries me about Napa Valley's most iconi...

April, 24, 2017 Sonoma County auction brings in nearly $800,000

(Wines&Vines) - The Sonoma County Vintners third annual Sonoma County Barrel Auction on April 21 brought in $795,500 for the organization. More than 250 members of the wine trade bid on 90 wine lots in the live auction that raised $100,00 more than last year, according to a statement by the vin...

April, 23, 2017 THE AMAZING REASON THAT THE PH IN SOIL MAKES OR BREAKS YOUR WINE

(VinePair) - It only takes a few minutes of reading anything about wine for soil to come into play. Whether it’s a long feature on Germany’s Mosel region, or the shelf-talker at Bevmo, experts, sommeliers, and marketers love throwing in tidbits about the ground that makes their war...

April, 23, 2017 Italy: An unusual frost in the province of Belluno: Night of fires to save the vineyards

(CorriereAlpi) - Fire in the vineyards: to warm the screws. Agriculture fight against frost back in this April "abnormally cold", as defined by the Arpav. And to avoid incalculable damage to fruit trees and other productions already sprouted in the hot weather of the past few weeks, also it comes t...