January, 11, 2016 Napa Activists: No More Mr Nice Guy

(Wine-Searcher) - The gloves come off in the battle between pro- and anti-development factions in Napa. Bedeviled by traffic jams and rising housing costs, Napa County lawmakers and activists spent much of 2015 trying to hammer out a plan to limit wine industry growth. In the last week of t...

January, 11, 2016 WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A VERTICAL AND A HORIZONTAL WINE TASTING

(VinePair) - Before we surrender our sanity in the battle against January emptiness, we thought we might try some kind of productive activity instead. Yes, we could rock back and forth in the corner of the room until the next marketable holiday comes along with its red hearts and broken promises, b...

January, 11, 2016 How to Start a Wine Collection in 2016—and Why You Should

(Bloomberg) - Maybe you’ve been turned off by the auction numbers (“case of Romanée-Conti brings $59,000!”) and think wine collecting is just a one-percenter’s status game. It’s not just for those with the fattest wallets. Although major price inflation has h...

January, 11, 2016 BREWING CHANGE? New legislation expands Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council to other beverage producers

(Mibiz) - While new bills seek to grow the membership of an agriculture industry council funded by licensing fees from Michigan alcoholic beverage makers, the changes still exclude one key sector and its supply chain from the group. According to Paul Vander Heide, the president of the Michigan C...

January, 11, 2016 French startup aims to be your cup of wine

(Phys) - The device being shown by 10-Vins at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas borrows the idea from the fast-growing single-dose coffee machines such as Nestle's Nespresso and US-based Keurig. The D-Vine machine delivers a single glass of wine with the correct aeration and temperatu...

January, 11, 2016 Could red wine improve cognitive performance?

(Plos) - “Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages” , said Louis Pasteur. Through the biological activity of several classes of organic compounds such as anthocyanins, tannins and flavonoids, red wine is known to have beneficial effects on health, when consumed in mode...

January, 11, 2016 The 2016 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition winners

(SFGate) - The winners of the 2016 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition (SFCWC) were announced on Friday, after receiving a record 7,162 entries this year — the highest number of wine entries to date. For four days, 65 judges from around the nation and world met in Sonoma County to d...

January, 11, 2016 UK ALCOHOL GUIDANCE ‘OUT OF LINE’ WITH EUROPE

(TDB) -The drinks trade has reacted to new guidance on alcohol consumption which has seen the recommended weekly allowance for men drop by seven units to the same level as women, putting UK advice “out of line” with Europe and reclassifying a new group of men as “at risk” dr...