December, 25, 2015 County strikes blow against proposed Dairyman winery near Sebastopol

(PD) -  Delivering a blow to the most controversial winery project in Sonoma County, the county’s top parks official has found that the owner of a vineyard near Sebastopol has no current legal right to access his property by crossing the Joe Rodota Trail. Parks Director Caryl Hart also ...

December, 25, 2015 European Court confirms illegality of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) of Alcohol

(TDB) - The European Court of Justice has today confirmed that Scotland’s plan to introduce Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) of alcohol is illegal because it breaches EU trade laws. Agreeing with EU advocate general Yves Bot’s official opinion published in September this year that MU...

December, 25, 2015 Hundreds of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti wines stolen at French port

(Decanter) - Hundreds of bottles of some of the world's most expensive wine, belonging to Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, have disappeared at Le Havre port in northern France just before being shipped to Canada, prompting French police to launch a theft investigation. French police invest...

December, 25, 2015 Napa Valley Top Stories of 2015, No. 7: Wine Train getaway becomes racial flashpoint

(NVR) - On a Saturday morning in August, a group of 11 book-loving women – 10 of them black boarded the Napa Valley Wine Train to get a day’s taste of the wine country’s good life – fine wines and gourmet meals aboard vintage train cars, with miles of grapevines as the ba...

December, 24, 2015 Hunting Heritage Wine Yeasts

(Wines&Vines) - Lucy Joseph, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, has been visiting parts of California’s wine country on the search for native yeasts. Finding yeast isn’t really much of a challenge, especially in places like Napa County, but Joseph is seekin...

December, 24, 2015 GUINNESS BEER SUED BY ANGRY CUSTOMER ... This Stuff's Made In Canada

(TMZ) - Guinness, the famous Irish stout, is being sued because THE BEER IS ACTUALLY MADE IN CANADA! Kieran O'Hara  is a local beer drinker from Massachusetts now gunning for Guinness, claiming the beer maker is duping millions of beer enthusiasts.    According to the docs -- ...

December, 24, 2015 For Wine Marketing, Gifts Under The Tree

(Forbes) - What’s under the wine industry’s Christmas tree this year? For a start, there’s the results of the E. & J. Gallo Winery’s 2015 Gallo Consumer Wine Trends Survey. 76 million people were born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1964; they are the Baby Boomers. Be...

December, 24, 2015 Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Are Renovating a Vineyard to Make Their Own Wine at Home

(USMagazine) - Kanye West  and  Kim Kardashian  have grape expectations for their estate in Hidden Hills, California. A source reveals in the new issue of  Us Weekly  that the pair, who are renovating the French château–style mansion, are also rehabbing...