July, 25, 2016 Antique Wine Equipment Collection to be Sold

(Wines&Vines) —It started with vintage corkscrews, but soon antiques dealer Jim McCormick was buying lab equipment from the 19th century, cast-iron grape crushers from some of California’s oldest wineries and copper smudge pots from another era. McCormick, who lives in Petalu...

July, 25, 2016 AUS: Wine grape prices increase, according to industry report

(WTN) - AUSTRALIA’S wine sector has recorded increases in the average purchase price of wine grapes and its overall crush this year, according to a report released today.  The report, released by Wine Australia, the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia and Wine Grape Growers Aust...

July, 25, 2016 Scientists claim to ‘re-create Montelena 1973’ with no grapes

(Decanter) - A company in San Francisco has claimed it can create wine without using grapes or fermentation - only with molecules.  Ava Winery  claimed it has created synthetic wine in a laboratory from amino acids, acids, sugars, volatile organics and ethanol. Its co-founders said...

July, 25, 2016 Wine wars: Fury and arson in the vineyards of southern France

(Telegraph) - A wine war has erupted in southwestern France where angry claims of fraud and skulduggery involving "foreign" grapes have boiled over into violent action in the summer sun. Staff at the Jean Gleizes domain in central Ouveillan, outside Narbonne are still in shock after the wine dom...

July, 25, 2016 The best wines for NOT giving you a hangover revealed

(Mirror) - Shoppers have turned to naturally produced varieties over standard wines because they don’t contain chemicals blamed for that morning-after feeling. The online supermarket Ocado is now stocking 90 types of organic wine. A spokesman said: “Over the past year, sales of or...

July, 25, 2016 Wine without waste: De Bortoli aims to be Australia's first zero-waste winery

(TheGuardian) - One of Australia’s biggest family-owned wineries wants to become the country’s first zero-waste wine producer, and has invested more than $15m to achieve this goal. De Bortoli Wines , which has wineries at four sites in two states, has already cut the amount of waste...

July, 22, 2016 Taittinger drops bid to be French president – report

(Decanter) - Pierre Emmanuel Taittinger has stepped back from his bid to be president of France, according to French media reports.   Pierre Emmanuel Taittinger has said that he is pulling out of the race to be French president, according to comments reported widely in the France press toda...

July, 22, 2016 The truth about that glass of red wine

(NZHerald) - Drinking alcohol causes at least seven kinds of cancer, according to a review of studies. Researchers said that even people who drink low levels are at risk of developing the disease - wiping out the idea that a glass of red wine is good for you. Alcohol causes cancer of the mout...