February, 12, 2016 CDC Won't Stop Women Drinking Wine

(Wine-Searcher) - The Centers for Disease Control recommendation that women quit drinking is getting a predictable reaction. Women buy 57 percent of the wine in the United States, according to Nielsen. So when the Centers for Disease Control recently advised women who are sexually active and not...

February, 12, 2016 Fans at Super Bowl 50 spent nearly $11M, bought 8,000 glasses of wine

(CBSSport) - There were 71,088 fans at  Super Bowl  50 on Sunday and apparently, most of them were craving wine, which actually isn't that surprising because I'm pretty sure that's the unofficial drink of California. The wine drinkers showed up  en masse  to Levi's Stadium, b...

February, 12, 2016 French winery fined for illegal rosé winemaking

(Decanter) - France's Vinovalie co-operative has been fined for illegally blending red and white wines and bottling the result as rosé. The tribunal in Albi, southern France, last week fined Vinovalie €10,000 for illegal rosé production, with a further €1,000 in dama...

February, 12, 2016 WORLD’S BIGGEST WINE BARREL UNVEILED

(TDB) - The biggest barrel in the world, capable of holding 300,000 litres of wine, has been made in the Languedoc. Twelve metres long, six metres in diameter and weighing 40 tonnes, the barrel was made for Languedoc estate, Château Puech Haut. The barrel was made by local carpente...

February, 12, 2016 URBAN FORAGE IS MAKING WINE FROM STUFF DESTINED TO BE TOSSED AWAY

(CityPages) - The idea of turning waste into wine sounds less crazy if you consider its origins: the urge to get alcohol when you’re broke. Jeff Zeitler was a short-on-cash college student with an interest in making booze. But getting his hands on the raw material was expensive and ha...

February, 12, 2016 NATURAL WINE POTENTIAL IN US ‘HUGE BUT UNTAPPED’

(TDB) - The potential for natural wine in the USA is “huge”, but there are fears that lack of capacity may make it difficult to secure, the founder of natural wine trade show RAW has warned. Speaking to  the drinks business , founder of RAW, Isabelle Legerons MW, said the n...

February, 12, 2016 Key world wine consumption trends – Vinexpo

(Decanter) - Millenials in the US don't want as much wine as their parents and the Italians are losing touch with their vinous heritage, but Prosecco is a 'weekday luxury' that knows no bounds abroad and China is back in the game, according to a Vinexpo-sponsored report on world wine  consumpt...

February, 12, 2016 Washington Grapegrowers Look Ahead

(Wines&Vines) - The numbers are in for the 2015 harvest, but Washington state wineries and grapegrowers are already starting to prune vines in anticipation of the 2016 harvest—and ongoing expansion. The annual gathering of the Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers (WAWGG) saw mo...