March, 18, 2016 Why It’s So Hard For Wines From Other Countries To Make It In America

(VinePair) - “I just got back from (pick a country) where we had this fabulous wine. I asked for it at my favorite wine shop, but they said it wasn’t available here. What’s up with that?” We hear ya! The problem is, the U.S. is the largest wine market in the world, but ...

March, 18, 2016 Smell of alcohol ‘impedes self control’

(TDB) - People exposed to the smell of alcohol are less likely to maintain their self-control because the aroma is too distracting to focus on a task, new research has concluded. Scientists at Edge Hill University carried out a study looking at the behaviour of participants exposed to the smell...

March, 17, 2016 Wine Country’s unsung hero: Chuy Ordaz

(SFChronicle) -  When successful business owners talk about what they did before entering the wine industry, a few origin stories start to sound familiar. Real estate development. Private equity. Even, increasingly, professional sports (see: Yao Ming, Tom Seaver, Arnold Palmer). What you d...

March, 17, 2016 Millennials Catch Boomers in Wine Consumption

(Wines&Vines) - The Wine Market Council’s annual presentation to members last week focused on two trends in the wine market: millennial drinkers have caught up with baby boomers as the boomers’ wine consumption has begun to drop. The conference combined hard data from Nielsen and...

March, 17, 2016 ONLINE WINE: RETAILERS SHOULD ‘REMOVE CLUTTER’

(TDB) - Online wine retailers need to do more to cut through the increasing “clutter” of online wine sales and appeal to consumers, importers and suppliers have warned. Currently, the online market represents 8.8% of the total off-trade wine sales, according to the Wilson Drinks...

March, 17, 2016 What Brexit may mean for Bordeaux 2015 en primeur

(Decanter) - Jane Anson looks ahead to the Bordeaux 2015 en primeur campaign and talks to trade experts about what impact the UK referendum on EU membership could have on pricing and consumer demand - in a market that has no shortage of Bordeaux wine. Yes, it’s that time again… just...

March, 17, 2016 Wine Compound Resveratrol's Latest Role: Killer of Leukemia Cells

(WineSpectator) - Resveratrol, an organic compound found in grape skins and wine, has shown promise in treating multiple maladies. But scientists are still laboring to understand how it works and how to harness those healing properties. Now a team of researchers in China has discovered another p...

March, 17, 2016 Sonoma, Napa plants found to contain sharp-shooter eggs

(PD) - Inspectors in Sonoma and Napa counties destroyed plants last week that contained egg masses of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, an insect that spreads a disease that can kill grapevines. Napa inspectors on March 7 discovered the eggs on some plants that were transported to the Walmart Supe...