December, 02, 2015 British Columbia: Wineries Petition for Greater Policing

(Wines&Vines) - British Columbia wineries want to see more police patrolling the South Okanagan after a spree of break-ins this fall that have seen everything from till drawers to tractors go missing. Ten wineries between Penticton and Osoyoos have been hit by thieves, and the famed Royal Ca...

December, 02, 2015 US SENATE TO HOLD HEARING ON AB INBEV

(TDB) - The US Senate is to hold a hearing next week on the impact of beer giant AB Inbev’s £71bn takeover of rival brewer SABMiller. Belgium-based AB Inbev, whose Anheuser-Busch arm has the single largest stake in the US beer market through its Budweiser and Bud Light bran...

December, 02, 2015 The Central Valley is sinking: drought forces farmers to ponder the abyss

(TheGuardian) - On a day when the skies were ashen from the smoke of distant wildfires, Chase Hurley kept his eyes trained on the slower-moving disaster at ground level: collapsing levees, buckling irrigation canals, water rising up over bridges and sloshing over roads. This is the hidden disast...

December, 02, 2015 Truett-Hurst sues landlord in winery lease dispute

(NBBJ) - Publicly owned startup vintner Truett-Hurst has taken the owner of its Russian River Valley winery and tasting room to court, claiming the action is necessary to prevent eviction ahead of what the wine company speculates could be a move to position the property for sale. H.D.D. LLC, par...

December, 01, 2015 US: Iowa posts record year for liquor, wine sales

(TheGazette) - Overall, sales of distilled spirits, beer and wine totaled nearly $319.3 million, which represented a 5.4 percent for the period from July 1, 2014 to last June 30. Wholesale sales of spirits in fiscal 2015 totaled about $277.7 million, a level that topped last fiscal year’...

December, 01, 2015 Are We To Cool to Care About Wine?

(WineSpectator) - It's a contemporary wine paradox: The more wines we have to choose from, the less emotionally committed we become. This is unique to our time. Indeed, you could go so far as to say that it's a 21st-century phenomenon, so recent is it. On the surface, the problem—if that's...

December, 01, 2015 New Zealand: Seaweed used as plant food in Marlborough vineyards

(Stuff) - A Marlborough marine farmer is turning his trash into another man's treasure by producing a plant feed for vineyards using seaweed. Mick Norton initially panicked in the late 1980s when the mussel lines he developed in Tory Channel, in the Marlborough Sounds, started attracting large a...

November, 30, 2015 US: Drone Reveals Stressed Vines

(Wines&Vines) - The day after harvest finished at Johnson Estate Winery in Westfield, N.Y., winery owner Fred Johnson took his brand new drone out to the vineyard and sent it up to shoot video of the countryside around the winery. Less than a week later, Johnson had a 2-minute, 20-second video ...