November, 02, 2015 UK: Burger King launches bid to sell booze

(TDB) - Burger King has applied for alcohol licences at a number of its restaurants, which if approved will make it the first fast food chain in the UK to sell alcohol. The chain has applied for licences at just four of its 654 UK branches so far; Newcastle-under-Lyme, Blackpool, Hull and Bury S...

November, 02, 2015 Corked? Fine wines languish in China warehouses as consumers cool

(Reuters) - The crates of Chateau Brehat wine from Bordeaux had gathered dust for three years in a bonded warehouse on the outskirts of Shanghai before the owners cut their losses in July, slashing three-quarters off the $50 price (£32.3) tag. The fire sale was prompted by a huge oversuppl...

November, 02, 2015 Sonoma County farmworkers’ struggles include housing, health

(PD) - Long hours spent hunched over, installing countless drippers on a vineyard irrigation system, did a number on Jose Luis Apolinar’s back. His wife, Rosa, knows what to do next. After dinner, she takes a pair of scissors and goes into the backyard of their southeast Santa Rosa home, s...

November, 01, 2015 South Africa: Dry season might result in smaller wine grape harvest

(BDLive) - THE South African wine industry can expect a smaller wine grape harvest in 2016 should the dry seasonal conditions persist in November. This is the message from the regional viticulturists of VinPro‚ the representative organisation for some 3‚500 wine producers and cellars...

November, 01, 2015 Wine and Garbage? NYC Trash Train Plan Draws Upstate Protest

(ABCNews) - The winemaker who supplied the sacramental spirits for Pope Francis' visit to Manhattan has a new label named for New York City Mayor  Bill de Blasio : "No Trash! De Blasio Blush." The wine from Eagle Crest Vineyards is part of a campaign against a proposed 20-year, $3.3 billion...

November, 01, 2015 Grapes of wrath — when $250 million in rare wine was set on fire

(NYPost) - It was a warm fall day in October 2005, and Mark Anderson, a 300-pound man carrying a bucket of gasoline-soaked rags, was definitely up to no good. He walked into the massive Wines Central warehouse in Vallejo, Calif., where some of the world’s finest wine was stacked on pallets...

November, 01, 2015 The Health Benefits of Coffee and Wine

(ConsumerReports) - If you have seen the headlines touting the health benefits of  coffee  and wine—and you’re among the 61 percent of Americans who down a daily cup of java or the 31 percent of drinkers who prefer a glass of wine to other alcoholic beverages—you&r...

October, 30, 2015 Italy overtakes France as world’s biggest wine producer

(Decanter) - Italy is again set to become the world's largest wine producer country in 2015, overtaking France, after better weather ensured a bigger harvest than in 2014.  Vineyards in Piedmont, which has enjoyed a better growing season in 2015 Italy  is likely to produce 48....