March, 02, 2016 Common wine faults: 'Brett,' sulfur dioxide

(Nwaonline) - Judging the quality of a wine is essential to its enjoyment, and the understanding starts with a simple question you can ask yourself when smelling your glass. Does this wine smell clean? Many years ago a poor quality, unclean wine was more common. The reasons varied: it could...

March, 01, 2016 No More Wine Or Chocolate? Why We Need To Care About Global Warming

(HuffPost) - Imagine walking into a supermarket and not being able to buy the basics:  milk, bananas, bread.  Now think about not being able to buy a coffee before work or enjoy a glass wine? It may sound dramatic, but the supply of some of our most loved foods will likely be challenge...

March, 01, 2016 California: Ridge Vineyards Fined Over Farmworker Violations

(Wine-Searcher) - Winery rapped on the knuckles over the state of its worker accommodation. California stalwart Ridge Vineyards has fallen foul of the Department of Labor over the living conditions of its workers, ending up with a hefty fine. Farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Manage...

March, 01, 2016 Joel Peterson set the course for California Zin. Now he returns to his roots

(SFChronicle) - It’s hard to imagine Joel Peterson has anything to prove. Starting in the 1970s, the onetime bacteriologist began building Ravenswood Winery from an itinerant side project — the wines were once aged in a former toilet-seat shop — into a household name. Indeed, i...

March, 01, 2016 Treasury Wine Estates shareholders face end of happy hour

(AFR) - What's the best way to make $1 million in the wine business? Start with $2 million. I've heard many versions of that joke over the years. My family has spent the better part of 30 years plugged into the industry in one way or another, so I know well the hangovers caused by indulging i...

March, 01, 2016 Spanish wine 'the most popular on the planet' despite fetching less than a third of the price of French vintages

Spanish wine is the most popular on the planet, according to the latest international export figures, but few of the country’s vineyard owners will raise a glass to that news; on average their vintages fetch less than a third of the price of those sold abroad by France. Spain exported a re...

March, 01, 2016 EU WINE EXPORTS REACH NEW HIGH OF €9.8BN

(TDB) - Exports of wine from the European Union have reached a new record, totalling €9.8 billion for 2015, primarily due to a growing US market. According to Jean-Marie Barillère, president of the Comité Européen des Entreprises Vins (CEEV), the past year saw a ma...

March, 01, 2016 New Wave of Sommelier Clubs Will Change How You Experience Wine

(Bloomberg) - Ian Cauble looks more like a surfer than a master sommelier, but his passion is definitely wine. He starred in the 2012 cult-hit film  SOMM,  which tracked the trials and tribulations of four sommeliers in their quest to pass the tough master sommelier exam. (Cauble was t...