January, 11, 2016 When It Rains, Who Pours?

(Wines&Vines) - With El Niño weather patterns finally breaking the years of California drought, no one is complaining about the rain––certainly not the parched wine industry. But California drivers are often mocked for their timidity of getting on the roads when it rains, whi...

January, 11, 2016 How To Make Boxed Wine Taste Good, 12 Different Ways

(Bustle) - Boxed wine is my jam, people, and I’m not going to hide it. Some people might look down their noses at boxed wine, and they’d be somewhat right to — boxed wine tends to taste pretty crappy, but there are  ways to make boxed wine taste good , I promise. Plus, you re...

January, 10, 2016 Big grocers push to sell wine in Mississippi

(ClarionLedger) - “Looking for Wine?” signs greet customers at some grocery stores in the state, including Kroger and Wal-Mart stores. In what is shaping up to be a potentially major fight in the Legislature, a coalition, including those two grocery giants, is pushing for passag...

January, 10, 2016 IBM and Gallo Winery Built a Big Data Irrigation System for Wine

(Fortune) - IBM helped the E.&J. Gallo Winery build an irrigation system that taps Jeopardy-winning technology to more efficiently water grapevines. IBM’s Watson super computer is learning to become a master winemaker. At a vast vineyard outside Modesto, Calif., E&J Gallo Winery...

January, 09, 2016 Bulgarian wines have a friend in Robert Hayk

(WP) - Wine wasn’t Robert Hayk’s first career. He was a financial adviser for Merrill Lynch, and before that worked for three years at the U.S. embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria, during the heady post-Soviet 1990s. When he decided to forge a new career in wine, Hayk drew on his Bulgarian c...

January, 08, 2016 Napa and Sonoma Vintners See a Surge in Vine-Killing Pierce's Disease

(WineSpectator) - Two of California's most prominent wine regions experienced a surge in the vine-killing illness Pierce's disease in 2015, possibly the result of recent warmer winter conditions. Viticulture experts in both Napa and Sonoma counties report a significant increase in the number of vin...

January, 08, 2016 Drinking limits around the world

(Decanter) - How do the new UK alcohol guidelines compare to drinking limits in other countries around the world? It's complicated... The new official advice for UK drinkers is that nobody should consumer more than 14 units of alcohol in a week, and everybody should have more than one day alcoho...

January, 08, 2016 Pregnant Women Should Treat Craft Beer Like Wine

(TheFederalist) - Since my first pregnancy nearly seven years ago, I have heard the tales of women whose obstetricians or midwives condoned or recommended they occasionally consume a small glass of red wine to help with anxiety and stress. Not being much of a wine drinker at the time, my typical re...