June, 07, 2016 Cutting Back on Wine? Try a Smaller Glass

(HealthDayNews) — Like wine just a little  too  much sometimes? You may sip a little less over an evening if it’s served in smaller goblets, a new British study finds. “It’s not obvious why this should be the case, but one reason may be that larger glasses chang...

June, 07, 2016 Winemakers fight to save some of Oregon's most coveted wine

(OregonLive) - Tad Seestedt knows a winemaker only gets about 40 chances in his career to perfect his craft. Each year, he gets one shot with the grapes he grew or bought. It seems those odds just weren't long enough. Seestedt's company,  Ransom Wine , relies on one of the riskiest business...

June, 07, 2016 Coastal California Pinot Noir in Short Supply

(Wines&Vines) - Frost, poor fruit set and drought in 2015 hurt the North Coast Pinot Noir harvest in much the same way they harmed the California Central Coast, according to speakers at the Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Technical Conference. While the North Coast Pinot Noir crop—including...

June, 05, 2016 Auction Napa Valley Raises $14.3 Million

(Wines&Vines) - Napa Valley Vintners’ 36th annual Auction Napa Valley raised more than $14.2 million for local health and youth organizations this weekend. The auction raised $15.8 million in 2015, and the record was $18.4 million in 2014 as the economy recovered from the recession. ...

June, 05, 2016 For some workers, alcohol and startups are a dangerous mix

(SFChronicle) - For seven years, alcohol was the salve she used to soothe her anxieties, calm her feelings of inadequacy and simply fit in. After a while it became a crutch. By age 27, she decided, it was too much. Sarah Jane Coffey decided to get sober the same year she began to pursue a new...

June, 05, 2016 Christopher Jackson, of Jackson Family Wines, steps out with Seismic Brewing Co.

(PessDemocrat) - One of the most ambitious projects in the craft beer industry is ramping up in a nondescript warehouse in southwest Santa Rosa. There, a team of 20- and 30-somethings is attempting to build from scratch one of the most environmentally sustainable breweries in the country...

June, 05, 2016 France's new 'Disneyland of wine' sets heads spinning

(DigitalJournal) - It has already been dubbed an "adult Disneyland" and "the amusement park of our dreams" by US college students. But the Cite du Vin -- a new museum in the French city of Bordeaux dedicated to the history of wine -- is not quite the palace of bacchanalian revels of online ...

June, 05, 2016 Vintners act to block counterfeits as China’s thirst for Canadian icewine grows

(FinancialPost) - The Niagara peninsula, a flat strip of lush farmland that separates Lake Erie from Lake Ontario, feels like the Klondike right now, with eager farmers ripping out stately orchards of pear and peach trees to plant row upon row of grape vines on every possible scrap of soi...