December, 22, 2015 Larger Wine Glasses Encourage More Drinking, Study Finds

(WSJ) - Bartenders and waiters love to hear a wine drinker say, “I’ll have another.” Could the glassware they use make this happen more often? Researchers at the University of Cambridge say it looks like larger wineglasses encourage patrons to drink more, even when serving s...

December, 22, 2015 North Coast Water Table Spared

(Wines&Vines) - While the West Coast drought has been catastrophic for grapegrowers in some areas of California, it has had little impact on vineyards in other parts of the state. Comparing data about groundwater tables in various California grapegrowing regions highlights how different conditi...

December, 22, 2015 Wine collector loses U.S. appeal of counterfeiting conviction

(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of a prominent wine dealer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling millions of dollars of rare and expensive counterfeit wine. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld the 2013 conviction and subsequent s...

December, 22, 2015 The Benefits of Dry-Farming Wine—For the Palate and the Planet

(ModernFarmer) - Back in the 1990s, Russ Raney and John Paul were scandalized to discover that several of their wine-producing peers in Oregon’s Willamette Valley had begun installing drip-irrigation systems in their vine-yards. After all, the valley receives an average of 42 inches of r...

December, 22, 2015 No Chemicals: This Is the Most Natural Wine You Can Drink

(Vogue) - Organic, biodynamic, and natural wines were once on the fringe of the wine world. Composting instead of using pesticides? Harvesting grapes according to the moon’s rhythms? Fermenting with native yeasts? Such practices were the domain of eccentrics and hippies. Nowadays, natura...

December, 21, 2015 Son of beer magnate found guilty of father’s murder

(TDB) -  The son of a wealthy Canadian brewer has been found guilty of murdering his father, whose family owns the country’s oldest independent brewery. Following a four-month trial, Dennis Oland, whose family owns Canada’s Moosehead Brewery, was found guilty of beating his f...

December, 21, 2015 Wine Industry Escapes Tariffs

(Wines&Vines) - Wineries that export to Canada and Mexico have escaped significant tariffs following lawmakers’ repeal of Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) for beef and pork in accordance with a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling. On Dec. 7, an arbitrator with the WTO reitera...

December, 21, 2015 St Emilion dispute: Classification upheld, opponents vow to fight on

(Decanter) - A Bordeaux tribunal has ruled that the new St Emilion classification is legal, but opponents has promised that it will not be 'the final word' on the matter. St Emilion dispute latest: The Administrative Tribunal in Bordeaux overruled objections to the 2012 St Emilion classif...