October, 13, 2016 Wine Label Design Is More Important Than You Think

(Eater) - How the look of a bottle influences what you buy, for better or worse. One cold weekday earlier this year, I convinced five friends to let me follow them around while they bought wine. We passed row after row of bottles, hundreds of images competing for our 10 to 15 dollars, from chate...

October, 13, 2016 7 Golden Nuggets For Investing In Wine

(Forbes) - Let me start with three assertions about drinking wine now, versus saving it for later. Number One: The vast majority of wine that’s purchased in the U.S. is consumed within 24 hours of purchase. Number Two: In an effort to capture that substantial audience, some winemakers I...

October, 13, 2016 Modern Farmhouses: California Wine Country’s New Must-Have Homes

(WSJ) - A $3 million farmhouse (minus the farm) may sound outrageous, but people can’t build them fast enough, and prices for prime lots are soaring. When shopping for a vacation home in California’s Napa Valley, Maria Martinez, 58, and her lifelong friend, Lizett...

October, 11, 2016 A Winemaking Career Re-ignited

(Wines&Vines) - Over the course of Rick Boyer’s long career in winemaking, he’s produced wines at both ends of the winery spectrum. From a small, organic vineyard in Monterey County he crafted small-lot wines under his own label, while as the director of winemaking for Constellat...

October, 11, 2016 Terroir Winning the Wine War in Rioja

(Wine-Searcher) - Rioja's ruling body is set to allow the use of more prominent sub-zone, village and vineyard names on labels. Rioja's wine governing body has indicated that it will take the first steps to introduce village designations by the end of the year. The Consejo Regulador intend...

October, 11, 2016 Napoleonic era Cognac sells for 220,000 pounds

(Decanter) - A bottle of Cognac dating back to 1801 has sold for £220,000 at London's Hedonism wine shop, making it one of the most expensive Cognacs in the world. The bottle of Massougnes 1801 Cognac was sold to a buyer from Asia, said David Baker, managing director of Herm...

October, 11, 2016 This innovative gadget can aerate over 200 full bottles of wine on a single charge

(BI) - You may be content with simply uncorking and pouring wine out of your bottle, but there's an easy extra step you can take to significantly improve your vino. It's called aeration, which is a fancy word that describes the process of exposing your wine to air so it can oxidize and evap...

October, 10, 2016 North Coast grape growers seeking more machines to replace vineyard workforce

(PD) - Perhaps no agricultural crop has been more associated with the work in the fields than the grape. From the Bible to John Steinbeck to Cesar Chavez, the words and images of workers toiling in the vineyards have been ingrained in literature, newsreels and history books. It’s also a co...