November, 04, 2015 Sonoma Not All Sunshine for Vineyard Workers

(Wine-Searcher) - Sonoma County seems to have one of the most desirable lifestyles in the US: mild weather, fine restaurants, outstanding farmers' markets, and of course many miles of beautiful vineyards. For the people who pick the wine grapes, though, the lifestyle is of sharing houses with...

November, 04, 2015 Napa’s Most Famous Winemaker Rides a Helicopter to Work

(Munchies.vice) - Heidi Peterson Barrett is a very busy person. When she pulls up to meet me at  Jericho Canyon Vineyard , where she rents winemaking space here in the sunny foothills outside Calistoga, CA, I can hear her talking over a speakerphone in her little European car, going over her s...

November, 04, 2015 Is the USDA Silencing Scientists?

(TheAtlantic) - Late last year, Jonathan Lundgren, a South Dakota-based entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, submitted an article to the scientific journal Naturwissenschaften. It described how clothianidin—one of a controversial class of pesticides called neonicotinoids&mdas...

November, 04, 2015 California lawmakers conduct listening tour in Wine Country

(PD) - Wine Country executives and local water regulators asked state lawmakers for help building off-stream reservoirs to better protect endangered coho salmon, one of several ideas floated Tuesday at a special legislative hearing at Sonoma State University. The leaders of the Assembly and Senate...

November, 03, 2015 Wine will survive climate change, says industry, but will likely change

(OregonLive) - Wine will survive a changing climate, says an international industry group. The International Organization of Vine and Wine said advances in technology, in how grapes are grown and processed, will enable winemakers to continue producing quality reds and whites in the future. But i...

November, 03, 2015 Why Red Wine Gives You A Headache (And What To Do About It)

(HuffPost) - Why do I feel like I already have a hangover the same night that I've been drinking? All I had was two glasses of red wine. With dinner. It wasn't the first time I'd been stricken with a red wine headache; I tend to identify as a red drinker, but as a red drinker, headaches are a fru...

November, 02, 2015 Kurniawan’s cars sold at auction

(TDB) - A trio of cars belonging to convicted wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan, including a 2008 Lamborghini Murcielago roadster, have gone under the hammer in the US. As reported by Wine-Searcher.com, the cars were auctioned off in Rancho Cucamonga, California last Thursday. With just 938 mi...

November, 02, 2015 Canada: LCBO spent over $250,000 fighting order to destroy wine, beer and spirit club members’ private information

(NationalPost) - The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is destroying the personal information of wine, beer and spirit club members that the privacy commissioner said it was wrong to collect — but only after putting up a legal fight that cost more than a quarter of a million dollars. Now ...