December, 14, 2015 Everyone Wants to Get Drunk Off This Avocado Beer

(Munchies.Vice) - Avocados have enjoyed a seemingly endless run up the ranks of fruit popularity. Far removed from the days when avocado was primarily thought of merely in association with guacamole and California rolls, the green goodness is verifiably everywhere. The Internet has nursed an o...

December, 14, 2015 The Use of Added Resveratrol During Winemaking As An Alternative to Sulfites: A Pilot Study

(AcademicWino) - Research exploring different  alternatives to using added SO 2 during winemaking as a result of the negative connotations associated with excess SO2 is certainly plentiful. While SO2 (a.k.a. sulfur dioxide) is naturally present in grapes and many other frui...

December, 14, 2015 Drunk with Power: What was Prohibition really about?

(NewYorker) - For much of his life, Gerrit Smith was one of the most prominent abolitionists in America, a distinction he retained until 1865, when the end of the Civil War and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which outlawed slavery, made abolitionists obsolete. But Smith had other passions...

December, 14, 2015 Australia: Guns, drugs and cash in wine cellar

(YahooNews) - A man with links to the Mongols bikie gang has pleaded guilty to more than three dozen charges relating to the discovery of an extraordinary cache of guns, drugs and cash found in a suburban Belmont house. Justin Rinaldi, 38, had been due to go on trial at Perth's District Court to...

December, 14, 2015 Cuomo Vetos Bill to Rein in Liquor Authority

(Wine-Searcher) - The Governor of New York became the Grinch for wine retailers in the state this Christmas, after quashing a bill that would have reduced the powers of the State Liquor Authority. Andrew Cuomo said the measure, which would have made it harder for the SLA to crack down on merchan...

December, 14, 2015 Cambodian tainted rice wine kills 19, leaves 172 ill

(Yahoo) - Rice wine brewed with a toxic level of alcohol has killed at least 19 people and left 172 more in hospital in northeast Cambodia, the health ministry said Sunday. "Laboratory tests found the deaths were caused by the high methanol level in the wine," Ly Sovann, a spokesman for the heal...

December, 13, 2015 Wine offices in downtown Napa put up for sale

(NVR) - Downtown Napa is in play. A flurry of commercial properties in the city center have recently been listed for sale or sold, including Napa Square, the Fagiani’s building, two spaces under the Andaz hotel, the north side of the Copia property, the Napa Register block and the historic...

December, 13, 2015 English sparkling wine sales up 188% from last year

(TheTelegraph) - English sparkling wine is expected to be among the drinks of choice as the nation celebrates this Christmas and New Year. Sales of  English sparkling wine rocketed in 2015  with one leading supermarket reporting a year-on-year increase of 188 per cent. New figures...