February, 23, 2016 Climate change may help Oregon's wine industry

(KGW) - Last year, Oregon's wine industry contributed more than $3.35 billion dollars to the state's economy. But climate change is impacting the state's winemakers. That was one of the topics at this year's Oregon Wine Symposium. "The big buzz is that we just came out of two of the warmest y...

February, 23, 2016 US Government Solves International Crisis, Issues Pinot Noir Stamp

(Food&Wine) - It's about time the citizens of this country had a stamp with some wine grapes on it. Say whatever you like about President Obama, the man's administration has definitely got its priorities straight: The US Post Office just issued a Pinot Noir stamp. After years of ...

February, 23, 2016 How B.C.'s wine industry is becoming its own worst enemy

(BCBusiness) - B.C.’s wine industry has grand ambitions to take on the world–if only it could stop the internecine battle that’s tearing it apart For a while, it looked like peace had finally settled over B.C. wine country. At the end of a three-day Wine Leaders Forum last...

February, 23, 2016 Berger: Is your wine aging well, or just getting tired?

(PD) - An awful lot of wine we cellar or put in storage lockers simply does not get better with age, but why? One of the problems we face is how to know whether a particular wine is aging well or merely getting tired. One way is to open a bottle of which you have more than one and see how it ...

February, 23, 2016 Beer and wine coming to 5 Utah Starbucks locations

(KUTV) - The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control granted Starbucks the state's first limited service restaurant master license, allowing the company to serve beer and wine at five of their locations. "I think the Starbucks experiment is a good one to see how the master license program works...

February, 23, 2016 NEW ZEALAND TO MAKE ITS FIRST PROSECCO

(TDB) - New Zealand winemakers are about to plant the country’s first Glera vines that will go on to produce Prosecco in three years’ time. The Prosecco variety, otherwise known as Glera (to differentiate the grape from the protected Prosecco source in Italy’s Veneto), wil...

February, 23, 2016 Global warming and its impact on wine

(TDB) - In 1989 Richard Smart‘s suggestion that Bordeaux might one day be better suited to Grenache than Cabernet was met with derision. Now, as the dangers of global warming are brought into stark relief, he considers the viticultural changes being produced today. The first week of D...

February, 23, 2016 Business Lessons From A Napa Wine Legend

(Forbes) - Recently, I had the privilege of meeting Michael Mondavi , a luminary in the wine business whose family name has graced some of the most highly acclaimed and widely consumed bottles ever produced. He was just named “ Person of the Year ” by Wine Enthusiast magazine, a...