March, 30, 2016 BREWER UNVEILS ‘WORLD’S FIRST’ BEER MARMALADE

(TDB) - Scottish brewer Innis & Gunn has launched what it claims to be the “world’s first” beer marmalade to mark the launch of The Beer Kitchen in Dundee. Called Marm & Ale, the fruit conserve  combines Innis & Gunn oak-aged IPA with a Dundee marmalade pr...

March, 30, 2016 Market to GenX at your own Risk

(SVBWine) - Let's talk about Millennials! How exciting is that conversation? Demographers and researchers are laser focused. It's a feeding frenzy at times because that's the growth opportunity of future retail. Boomers are old news, nothing to write home about and not hardly anywhere near as inter...

March, 29, 2016 Warm Weather Awakens California Vineyards

(Wines&Vines) - The vineyard terrain of California’s Central Coast is so expansive that a single story couldn’t contain it. Today’s update completes yesterday’s “Central Coast Vineyards Report on 2016,” which included reports from associations, growers and wi...

March, 29, 2016 Obituary: Paul Pontallier of Château Margaux – 1956 to 2016

(Decanter) - Few Bordeaux châteaux manage to transmit the warmth, friendship and pleasure that comes with wine in the same way that Château Margaux did under the direction of Paul Pontallier. Paul Pontallier, who died on 28 March aged just 59 years old, had been managing director of ...

March, 29, 2016 Top 10 cool climate wine regions

(TDB) - Growing season temperature (GST) does exactly what it says on the tin. It is the average temperature for each month of the seven month growing season (October to April in the southern hemisphere; April to September in the northern hemisphere), divided by seven. “GST came about beca...

March, 29, 2016 The Best Wines For Springtime Drinking That Are Not Rosé

(VinePair) - Around the start of spring, bottles of rosé start appearing in wine retailers—and boxes, too—like little soldiers ready for a season of barbecues. Rosé is delicious, yes, but if you only drink the pink stuff from now until the end of warm weather, you might qu...

March, 29, 2016 Bordeaux Enjoys the Fruits of the Golden Weather

(Wine-Searcher) - The first taste of the 2015 vintage in London reflects the above-average growing season. "You can't lie about the weather," a well-known journalist said as he collected his glass for London's first taste of the 2015 Bordeaux wines last week. The Grand Cercle des Vins de Bordeaux...

March, 29, 2016 Central Coast Vineyards Report on 2016

(Wines&Vines) - California’s vast Central Coast AVA, which includes diverse conditions from landlocked Livermore Valley to the mountains of Santa Cruz and south to Monterey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, suffered a 2015 harvest that vineyard consultant Lowell Zelinski charac...