December, 16, 2015 Counterfeit Claims Spark Defamation Action

(Wine-Searcher) - The recent furor over alleged counterfeits turning up at auction shows no sign of dying down. Wine experts are embroiled in a defamation lawsuit, in which the chairman of The Wine Institute of Las Vegas claims a San Francisco consultant accused him of being a "criminal [who] sh...

December, 15, 2015 A Climate for French Wine as the World Grows Hotter

(Pulitzercenter) - Jean-Marc Touzard, an economist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, watched the climate change conference with interest and anticipation last week. He leads an interdisciplinary team in a wide-ranging venture to prepare France’s wine industry for ...

December, 15, 2015 How Fermentation Gives Us Beer, Wine, Cheese—and Cancer?

(ScientificAmerican) - In 1931 German physician, physiologist and biochemist Otto Heinrich Warburg won the Nobel Prize for his discovery that cancerous cells—unlike most healthy human cells, which produce energy using oxygen via respiration—favor the anaerobic process of fermentation, o...

December, 15, 2015 Top misunderstood wine terms revealed

(TDB) - A survey has revealed the 10 wine terms that customers are least likely to understand when deciding what wines to buy. One in three people don’t know what “tart” means, with one in ten think that a wine is being called cheap or brash. The same survey revealed that 32...

December, 15, 2015 Ex-Diageo Boss Eyes £2bn Peroni, Grolsch Bid

(SkyNews) - The former chief executive of Diageo is exploring a potential £2bn takeover of the Peroni and Grolsch beer brands, which are being earmarked for sale following the brewing industry's biggest-ever merger. Sky News has learnt that Paul Walsh, one of Britain's most prominent busin...

December, 15, 2015 PepsiCo director buys Portugal wine producer Herdade dos Coelheiros

(Decanter) - PepsiCo director Alberto Weisser has acquired Portuguese wine producer Herdade dos Coelheiros for an unnamed sum and plans to expand the vineyard and improve quality. Brazilian-born and US-based Alberto Weisser, 60, bought Portugal’s Herdade dos Coelheiros from the estate of w...

December, 15, 2015 Wine Exec Addresses Climate Conference

(Wines&Vines) - Representatives from 195 nations agreed to lower greenhouse gas emissions at the United Nations Climate Change Conference on Dec. 12 in what is being widely hailed as a “landmark” agreement. The United Nations had fought for the initiative since 2009, with the long-t...

December, 15, 2015 Saint-Émilion Classification Row Rumbles On

(Wine-Searcher) - Three years after a new classification, the courts could send the chateaux back to square one. The bloodletting is beginning all over again in Saint-Émilion, as a new episode of a saga that has been simmering – and occasionally boiling over – for years hits t...