June, 30, 2016 Wine sales start today in Tennessee grocery stores

(TFP) - Wine went on sale for the  first time in Tennessee grocery stores  at 8 a.m. today under a new state law. But shoppers only have two days — today and Saturday — to buy wine at a local grocery. That's because wine sales aren't allowed on Sunday or on holidays, includ...

June, 30, 2016 Police hunt missing $5m Australian wine collection

(Decanter) - A collection of some of Australia's greatest wines worth an estimated five million dollars has gone missing in the country.  Police in the  Hunter   region have appealed to the public for information after failing to find the A$5m stash of missing  Australian wi...

June, 30, 2016 Constellation: Sales Up 15%

(Wines&Vines) - Constellation Brands Inc. (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B), reported this morning its first-quarter fiscal 2017 results ending Feb. 28/29, and they were impressive: Net sales were up 15% to $1.87 billion, while operating income was up 29% to $553 million. “With sales and net incom...

June, 30, 2016 Cops Clueless in the Great Australian Wine Heist

(Wine-Searcher) - Police appeal to the public for help as some of Australia's finest wines go walkabout. How do you lose $3.5 million worth of wine? Australian police don't know either. In what is being described as "the mystery of the missing Grange", police and bank investigators are trying...

June, 30, 2016 Mendocino Wine Co. buys OFFbeat Brands of Petaluma

(PD) - Mendocino Wine Co. announced Thursday that it has purchased the wine portfolio of OFFbeat Brands of Petaluma. OFFbeat was formed in 2012 by Mike Kenton to appeal to Generation X and millennial wine drinkers. Its wines have names such as Zin-Phomaniac, Tie-Dye, Jellybean and Slices Sangria...

June, 30, 2016 Wisconsin wine industry thriving

(ChicagoTribune) - Visiting Wisconsin wineries is an easy way to enjoy a vast variety of wines while having the opportunity to learn direct from the winemakers, growers and purveyors of the state’s booming industry. According to Anna Maenner, executive director for both the Wisconsin ...

June, 30, 2016 Want to keep opened wine from losing it's flavor? Vestia's Wine Saver does just that

(DigitalTrends) - For all the things wine does right — and it gets  a lot  right — perhaps its lone bad quality is how quickly its quality deteriorates after becoming uncorked. Even top-shelf bottles of wine lose some of their distinct characteristics a mere day or two af...

June, 29, 2016 Brave, New Online Wine World

(Wine-Searcher) - Internet big guns are changing wine's retail landscape,  Liza B. Zimmerman discovers. Most traditional wine operators have tried to build effective online marketing platforms, but few have had the technical skills and understanding of the complicated US compliance laws to...