April, 25, 2016 5 Health Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar

(CheatSheet) - While you may be familiar with the uses of white vinegar around your house for cleaning, or find yourself using a little bit of balsamic vinegar on your salad, there may be one vinegar that you should start paying particular attention to. If you’re constantly looking for t...

April, 25, 2016 A defensible trademark isn’t as simple as putting your name on it, attorneys explain

(NBBJ) - Many wineries and other businesses adopt the names of their founders: Samuele Sebastiani became Sebastiani Vineyards; Jacob Gundlach launched Gundlach Bundschu Winery; Jacob Beringer gave his name to Beringer Vineyards. Mary Fazio lent her first name to Mary’s Pizza Shack in 1959; th...

April, 25, 2016 CAB FRANC TIPPED TO BECOME ARGENTINA’S ‘SECOND MOST IMPORTANT VARIETY’

(TDB) - Argentine winemakers are betting on Cabernet Franc with one suggesting it could grow to become one of the country’s most important grape varieties – second only to Malbec. Throughout Argentina many winemakers are upping their investment in the grape, planting new vineyar...

April, 24, 2016 Australia's Winemakers Look to an Uncertain Future

(Wine-Searcher) - The gap between perception and reality must be bridged, James Lawrence says, if Australian wine is to flourish. Over the past eight years, Australia's numerous problems have been well documented by journalists worldwide, much to the chagrin of the nation's proud winemakers. ...

April, 24, 2016 Exports of UK gin, beer and wine to USA increase

(GOV.UK) - Americans and expat Brits raise a toast to the Queen as exports of UK gin, beer and wine to USA increase. Americans and homesick Brits can toast the Queen’s 90th birthday with a quintessentially British gin and tonic or a pint of Yorkshire ale as US exports of our favourite...

April, 24, 2016 THERE ARE ROCKS INSIDE YOUR WINE. HERE’S HOW TO UNDERSTAND MINERALITY

(VinePair) - If grape vines are babies,  terroir -driven wines are the well-adjusted adult—flavorful, complex, and sometimes a little weird.  Terroir  is after all, that mysterious sense of place developed with each drop of rain, sunny day, hail storm and the rocks present...

April, 23, 2016 TTB Establishes Loess Hills District

(Wines&Vines) - The new Loess Hills District American Viticultural Area along the western border of Iowa and Missouri became official April 4. The AVA covers a long, somewhat narrow area along the Big Sioux and Missouri Rivers from Hawarden, Iowa, to Craig, Mo. Most of the 12,897 square miles i...

April, 21, 2016 Review of the Global Wine Business in 2015: Stable for Starters

(Forbes) - The latest numbers of the world wine industry has just been announced by the OIV. Here are the key points for the development in 2015, compared to 2014: - The world’s  vineyard area  is almost unchanged, at 7.5 million hectares (18.5 million acres). - The global&nbs...