November, 30, 2015 As the heat rises, the wines are a-changing

(Reuters) - It's a $200 billion industry that prides itself on being rooted to a particular spot and doing things they way they've always been done. But global warming is forcing the world's wine growers to change. As a U.N. conference in Paris next week tries to limit climate change, wine ...

November, 30, 2015 MIDDLE EAST: Israel Aims to Recreate Wine That Jesus and King David Drank

(NYTimes) - The wine, called marawi and released last month by Recanati Winery, is the first commercially produced by Israel’s growing modern industry from indigenous grapes. It grew out of a groundbreaking project at Ariel University in the occupied West Bank that aims to use DNA testing to...

November, 27, 2015 El Niño could be a boon or a blow to California vineyards

(LATimes) - Jason Haas' plan for El Niño involves oats, sweet peas, vetch, clover, sheep, alpacas, a llama and a couple of donkeys. It's not for everyone, the organic viticulturist admits. But it works for his family's Paso Robles vineyard, where dormant vines have laid bare acre after ac...

November, 25, 2015 How many glasses of wine does it take to ruin your diet? Experts weigh in

(Today) - With all the holiday parties on the agenda this time of year, you may be wondering how to balance your healthy lifestyle, stay fit and still have fun. The good news is that you can still enjoy yourself — even have a couple cocktails and still continue to stay on track! We'll neve...

November, 25, 2015 Wagner earns wine group top honor

(TheTimesTribune) - Charles J. “Chuck” Wagner helped turn a few grape vines behind a barn into a leading Napa Valley winery and an expanding California wine empire. Mr. Wagner was just 19 in 1972, when he helped form Caymus Vineyards with his parents. In a decade or so, the Ruth...

November, 25, 2015 A huge bushfire is racing towards Australia's most famous wine region

(BI) - Two bushfires are burning out of control in South Australia this afternoon in weather conditions described as catastrophic by the Bureau of Meteorology. One grassfire, north of Adelaide, near Roseworthy, is heading towards the famed Barossa Valley wine region. The SA Country Fire Servi...

November, 25, 2015 How China Conquered France’s Wine Country

(NewRepublic) - In 1996, Chinese premier Li Peng surprised his audience at the National People’s Congress by toasting the Ninth Five-Year Plan with red wine: “Drinking fruit wines is helpful to our health, does not waste grain, and is good for social ethics,” he announced. Fo...

November, 25, 2015 Barefoot Wine Contests Trademark Of Barefoot Kombucha: Tea Or Wine, Who Can Tell?

(Techdirt) - We've had a few instances in the past involving wine-makers and needless trademark spats with companies in completely unrelated industries. The time Trek Bicycle went after a  winery , comes to mind for instance. More recently, and somewhat more appropriate to this post, wa...