August, 04, 2016 California Wine Shows Strength in Challenging Economy:

/PRNewswire/ - The California wine and winegrape sector and allied businesses deliver a total economic contribution of $57.6 billion annually to the state's economy and $114.1 billion annually to the U.S. economy according to a new report commissioned by Wine Institute and the California Associatio...

August, 04, 2016 First Syrian refugee crowned wine queen in Germany

(DW) - Ninorta Bahno, 26, is an Aramaic Christian from Syria. She fled the civil war three-and-a-half years ago, arriving in the idyllic German town of Trier on the Moselle River. Bahno is the first asylum-seeker to be named wine queen in Germany. Each year, local, regional and national wine queens...

August, 04, 2016 French 'wine terrorists' flood town

(Telegraph) - An entire street, cellars of apartment blocks and underground car parks have been flooded with wine in a southern French town after a suspected act of sabotage by a shadowy group of "wine terrorists." Thousands of litres of the tipple poured out of five giant vats of a wine me...

August, 03, 2016 Modesto business owner faces charges in wine theft from O’Brien’s

(ModestoBee) - A north Modesto business owner faces charges of possession of stolen property and conspiracy related to the theft of more than $1,000 in high-value wine from a grocery store, Modesto police report. Gregory Pringle Lambert, 52, was arrested July 22 after an investigation of several...

August, 03, 2016 Science has proved which colour wine gives you the worst hangover

(Cosmopolitan) - You know when you've got a wine hangover. Not only because you can remember necking a full bottle (and the rest) the night before, but that familiar pounding of the head is a surefire sign you made the rookie error of going down the wine route.  While some pe...

August, 02, 2016 It's Official – Organic California Wines Taste Better

(Wine-Searcher) - A new study from UCLA finds organic and biodynamic wines score higher than similar non-organic examples. California wines made from certified organic or biodynamic grapes taste better than wines made from conventionally farmed grapes, according to a major academic study publish...

August, 02, 2016 Scientists Get Closer to Harnessing the Health Benefits of Red Wine

(WSJ) - Scientists on opposite sides of the globe appear to be getting closer to harnessing one of red wine’s most elusive health-giving ingredients and putting it into a pill. The ingredient,  resveratrol, has been touted for years for its ostensible powers to prolong life and protec...

August, 02, 2016 Change in Wine Direction for Chamisal

(Wines&Vines) - More than a year ago winemaker Fintan du Fresne and his production team at Chamisal Vineyards had a lengthy post-harvest meeting, during which they discussed the winery’s future. Du Fresne knew that if he and the rest of the team didn’t set a vision for the ne...