July, 18, 2016 Fraud probe finds Spanish wine passed off as French

(Decanter) - A winemaker in southern France has been caught out passing off Spanish wine as French, heightening tension in the region after a wine tanker from Spain was attacked earlier this year. French customs officials have charged a grower in the Aude region of Languedoc-Roussillon with ...

July, 16, 2016 Ava promises to clone high-end wines without using any grapes

(TechCrunch) - You’ve heard of turning water into wine, but Alec Lee and his founding team of bioengineers have taken to their San Francisco laboratory to turn molecules into wine. “We create the wine without any grapes, yeast or any kind of fermentation,” Lee, the founder of Ava Winery, ...

July, 11, 2016 Engineers Develop 'Micro Winery' Producing Wine Non-Stop

(SputnikNews) - American engineers are developing a micro-device that enables the uninterrupted production of wine, according to the press release of the Federal Polytechnic School in Lausanne. Daniel Attinger and his colleagues hope that their invention will enable winemakers to better understa...

July, 11, 2016 EU Austerity Has No Effect On Greek Wine Exports To USA

(Forbes) - According to  Cava Spidialis , Greek wine importer to the United States and Canada, since 2007, one year before the global economic meltdown, “…our sales in North America have grown 1,000 percent.”  The company also says, according to the Nationa...

July, 11, 2016 Researchers Study Colored Shade Nets on Grapes

(Wines&Vines) - Researchers from the University of California, Davis, began a trial this year at the Oakville Experimental Station in Napa Valley to evaluate the use of different colors of commercially available shade netting and its effects on grape cluster temperature and light exposure in re...

July, 11, 2016 Jefford on Monday: The nature of Napa

(Decanter) - If price is any guide (and it is: expensive wine receives careful and repeated scrutiny through time), then the two greatest zones for wines based on  Cabernet Sauvignon  are Bordeaux’s Left Bank and California’s  Napa Valley . I recently spent an unseaso...

July, 11, 2016 Wine Growlers? Absolutely. You'll Never Guess Where They're From.

(Forbes) - Every so often something comes along in the wine world that makes you sit up and take notice. Once you have a closer look, that something sometimes makes you sit right back, dumbfounded, in a why-didn’t-I-think-of-that kind of way. Ready for the latest “something”...

July, 11, 2016 Australia's oldest wine club is more than $5 million in debt, so members are voting on whether it lives or dies

(Businessinsider) - The Wine Society should be celebrating right now after Australia’s oldest wine club notched up 70 years since its founding in 1946. But instead, the organisation is fighting for its continued existence after posting increasingly large losses, squeezed by the supermarket ...