November, 20, 2015 Wine Harvest 2015: Burgundy Winemakers Report Great Wines, but Low Quantities

(WineSpectator) - Across the Northern Hemisphere, winemakers in many regions have finished one of the earlier grape harvests they've seen. They scrambled to pick fruit and find tank space, but now they are enjoying tasting the results and getting an idea of what nature provided. Wine Spectator will...

November, 20, 2015 The Inside Story Behind a Wine List’s Creation

(WSJ) - HOW HARD CAN it be to put a wine list together? A few famous names, some popular grapes priced at a profit, and the job is done. But a really good wine list—one that excites and challenges diners (but not overmuch) and offers great bang for the buck—is much harder to pull o...

November, 20, 2015 Born to Be Mild – Faldo Swings into Wine

(Wine-Searcher) - The metronomic golfer eschews tannin in his newly released selection of classic European wines. Sir Nick Faldo, one of the world's most celebrated golfers, has launched a new range of premium wines from some of Europe's finest vineyards. Faldo has six major championships to ...

November, 20, 2015 The end of the wine business as we know it

(Winecurmudgeon) - The one consistency about the wine business, as we celebrate the blog’s eighth birthday, is that the big get bigger, and that there isn’t any room for the small. Or, as a distributor friend of mine put it the other day, “It’s all about consolidating o...

November, 18, 2015 Whoops: How an Accident Turned into a New Style of Wine

(Vivino) - It was 1982 and lawyer-turned-vintner Jess Jackson had a big problem. It was his first year making Chardonnay under his newly minted Kendall-Jackson label and the fermentation of a batch of grapes from his Lake County property had “stuck,” which is when the yeast that eats up...

November, 18, 2015 Health Watch: White Wines Linked to Lower Risk of Diabetes-Related Vision Problems

(WineSpectator) - Moderate consumption of white and fortified wines could reduce diabetic retinopathy; leftover grape pomace shows some health potential. A new study out of Australia has found a correlation between the moderate intake of wine and a reduction in diabetic retinopathy, a visio...

November, 18, 2015 California: Rule Changes Affect Vineyard Workers

(Wines&Vines) - Vineyard owners and management companies often face new regulations and laws for their workers, but an unusual number will encounter them in the next few years. “There have been more changes to the rules and regulations in the past six months than I’ve seen in the...

November, 18, 2015 Judgment Movie Finally Ready to Shoot

(Wine-Searcher) - With the 40th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris occurring next year, a movie is in the works. Again. After 10 years, threats of lawsuits and some rancorous exchanges between rival movie moguls, the "definitive" film version of the legendary Paris tasting is finally going to ...