November, 05, 2015 What Does Sustainable Wine Taste Like?

(Wines&Vines) - While many in the wine industry are still trying to educate consumers about what it means for a winery or vineyard to be sustainable, experts gathered during the opening day of the SIMEI conference in Milan to pinpoint the sensory characteristics of sustainable wines and winemak...

November, 05, 2015 Guinness goes vegan

(TDB) - Guinness is to become vegan-friendly for the first time in its 256-year history as it ends the use of isinglass – dried fish swim bladders – for the clarification of its beer. The company plans to phase out the use of isinglass, which is used to make unwanted particles, such ...

November, 05, 2015 Hails fails to dent Chablis 2015 vintage, say producers

(Decanter) - Winemakers in Chablis have joined a chorus of those predicting a very good vintage across France in 2015, despite some producers being hit with a hailstorm on the eve of harvest. The Chablis 2015 vintage started off well and it was soon apparent that an early 2015 wine harvest w...

November, 05, 2015 When is a wine bar not a wine bar? When it's a Starbucks

(TheGuardian) - Wine bars have been undergoing a bit of a renaissance over the past few years. And that’s great. Wine is good. It improves most places – we like it in bars, in restaurants, in cinemas, on sofas, on trains: all the ways. Jokes are funnier on wine. People are more attr...

November, 05, 2015 UK: 'Taste the Bush' wine ad banned for being 'sexist and degrading'

(FoxNews) - A provocative ad for an Australian winemaker with the tagline “you can almost taste the bush” has been banned in the U.K. for its obvious sexual reference. The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the online advertisement from Australian-based Premier Estates W...

November, 04, 2015 Treasury Wine Estates gets US regulator nod for Diageo buy

(SMH) - Treasury Wine Estates has received the go-ahead from US regulators to proceed with its purchase of most of Diageo wines business in the US and UK. The Aussie wine supplier on Wednesday said the US Federal Trade Commission had completed its review of the deal and had raised no objection. T...

November, 04, 2015 Treasury Wine shareholders cranky over tight timing for entitlement issue

(SMH) - Some small shareholders are angry at how little time they were given by Treasury Wine Estates to respond to its retail entitlement offer to help pay for the $754 million acquisition of the Diageo wine business. They say it's typical of the arrogance shown by directors generally towards reta...

November, 04, 2015 California: Wine lobby, legislators look for solutions to drought farming, immigration concerns

(SCPR) - California wine industry represantatives and state politicians met Monday to discuss ways to mitigate the affects of the drought and consider other issues affecting winemakers. Among some of the issues covered at the hearing: sustainable farming, water conservation and housing for farmwor...