November, 30, 2016 HAIL STORM WREAKS HAVOC IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

(TDB) - The local industry wine body Riverland Wine is offering support to wine growers in South Australia’s Riverland after a devastating hail storm wreaked havoc throughout the region, “shredding” the vines of many producers. The organisation has posted an updated list o...

November, 30, 2016 Epicentre of NZ earthquake that wrecked 5 million bottles worth of wine

(Decanter) - New Zealand's recent Kaikoura earthquake ruined enough wine to fill more than five million bottles, according to new industry estimates. See a report below, alongside a video of cracks in the landscape caused by the quake.  Marlborough  lost just over 2% of its annua...

November, 30, 2016 The $845 Wine Book That Dealers Can’t Keep in Stock

(Bloomberg) - Assouline’s Impossible Collection of Wine details last century’s most incredible vintages. Key details: A hand-bound,  limited-edition book  detailing the great vintages of the 20th century, with labels, iconic photos, and...

November, 30, 2016 Need a Cigarette? Maybe You Should Drink Some Wine First

(WineSpectator) - It's one of the few tenets the scientific community almost universally agrees on: Cigarettes are bad for you. But a new study from Germany has found that drinking a glass of wine, specifically red wine, may counteract the short-term negative effects of smoking. While the researche...

November, 30, 2016 With the Wines of Montsant, It’s All in the Drinking

(NYTimes) - Tasting a wine for evaluation is something wine professionals are compelled to do. But it’s not the best way to assess a wine. It’s a compromise. Critics for consumer wine magazines, judges in wine competitions, and sommeliers in restaurants must evaluate dozens of b...

November, 28, 2016 These Men Are Harvesting Wine From Namibia’s Palm Trees

(Time) - Namibia’s dynamic culture may be modernizing but the country still has one foot in its ancient past. Through its strong sense of filial piety and respect for tradition, practices such as palm wine collecting have endured. Though the process has been illegal for years, the countr...

November, 27, 2016 Doctor's Diary: Good news - wine may indeed slow the ageing process

(Telegraph) - "A glass of good wine is a gracious thing”, wrote Sir Walter Scott, “for it reconciles poor mortality to itself”.  Two glasses (or more) can be better still, a panacea that retards the ageing process. Put simply, it runs like this. Many of the infirmities of age...

November, 27, 2016 New system claims best protection yet against wine fraud

(Decanter) - Counterfeit wine expert Maureen Downey is set to launch a new system to combat the growing issue of wine fraud. In partnership with diamond-certifiers Everledger, the Chai Wine Vault system promises to secure wine’s provenance and authenticity by storing it in a digital ...