May, 01, 2016 L.A. County may lift restrictions on wine industry

(Signalscv) - A decades-old Health Department ordinance that imposed food-processing standards on L.A. County wineries will soon be lifted, a county health official said this week. Easing that ordinance — which imposes permit requirements not applied to breweries in the county or wineri...

April, 29, 2016 BORDEAUX CHÂTEAU AVAILABLE TO RENT ON AIRBNB

(TDB) - Château Paveil de Luze in Margaux has opened its ornate gates to the public and made itself available to rent on Airbnb. The Cru Bourgeois estate is thought to be the first both in the Médoc and the Bordeaux region to be listed on the property sharing website. The Ch...

April, 29, 2016 Burgundy hit by ‘worst frost since 1981’

(Decanter) - Burgundy's worst frost in more than 30 years in some areas may have already cut the potential size of the 2016 harvest, as 'stressed' producers seek to assess damage in their vineyards.  A severe frost swept across  Burgundy   vineyards on the night of 26 April, caus...

April, 28, 2016 Are Wine Delivery Clubs Worth It?

(Playboy) - There are a dozen ways to judge a wine club, from its pricing and personalization to its ability to get hard-to-find bottles into your hands. (For a guy who lives in Pennsylvania—a place where every state-run wine shop tends to stock the same stuff—this last feature is a maj...

April, 28, 2016 Concours Mondial de Bruxelles wine competition to be held in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv

(FocusFen) - Concours Mondial de Bruxelles wine competition will be held at the International Fair – Plovdiv in the second-biggest Bulgarian city of Plovdiv from April 29 to May 1, the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) reported. This is the first time the competition will take place in Bulgar...

April, 28, 2016 Northwest Grapegrowing Season Powers Up

(Wines&Vines) - What a difference a year makes. April 2015 saw the Roza Irrigation District decide to let the canals running through local vineyards run dry for 20 days last May (see “Northwest Growers Strategize to Face Drought”). The extraordinary step was in response to the st...

April, 28, 2016 First Bordeaux Prices Raise Merchant Hopes

(Wine-Searcher) - Wine merchants are optimistic that the wines being sold en primeur are realistically priced, for a change. The first wines of the most-anticipated Bordeaux vintage for many years have been released at prices slightly higher than last year – and there's an air of suppresse...

April, 28, 2016 Two indicted in French Laundry wine theft

(NVR) - Two men have been indicted for their possible connection with the $300,000 wine theft from The French Laundry restaurant in Yountville dating to 2014. Alfred Georgis, 53, of Mountain View and Davis Kiryakoz, 44, of Modesto were arrested on Wednesday. Each was charged with one count of co...