October, 01, 2015 Women Who Drink Beer Regularly Run A Lower Risk of Heart Attack

(Munchies) - Recent research by the University of Gothenburg in Sweden has confirmed what everyone with a boisterous grandmother knows—that moderate amounts of alcohol actually only makes them stronger. The team of researchers found that women who regularly drink one to two pints per week ...

September, 30, 2015 Beaujolais winemakers protest over low prices

(Decanter) - Hundreds of Beaujolais winemakers have marched through the streets of Villefranche-sur-Saône to call for higher prices for Beaujolais Nouveau. Many negociants, who buy the wine in bulk for resale under their own labels, have offered just €180 per hectolitre of Beaujo...

September, 30, 2015 5 Tips To Shift An Industry: Direct To Consumer Wine, Adegga Style

(Forbes) - Marketing that you can’t call marketing. “Flexibilizing” an otherwise monolithic institution. And tapping into the “long tail” of wines worth loving. None of it is easy — not the new words, not the new models, not the new way of connecting win...

September, 30, 2015 Italy wine harvest 2015 looking good, say producers

(Decanter) - Winemakers across Italy appear confident about the 2015 wine harvest, despite a summer heatwave that forced some to use emergency irrigation. Italy wine harvest conditions ‘favourable’ The Unione Italiana Vini, which represents wine producers throughout Italy, reporte...

September, 30, 2015 Plaintiffs Up Ante in Arsenic Case

(TDB) - This spring’s class action against the California wine industry over the presence of arsenic in the alcoholic beverage has been tweaked to seek billions of dollars in civil penalties, among other damages. Los Angeles attorneys Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP filed an amended complaint i...

September, 30, 2015 BORDEAUX VINTNERS PROTEST AT RAIL APPROVAL

(TDB) - Winemakers in Bordeaux are “on the warpath” because of the decision of the French government to approve the controversial high-speed rail line connecting the region with Toulouse and Dax. Alain Vidalies, the French transport minister, announced this weekend that 200 miles of ...

September, 29, 2015 ENGLISH WINE TO DOUBLE PRODUCTION IN 7 YEARS

(TDB) - English vineyards are forecasted to double in capacity and production over the next seven years, British MPs have been told. The prediction was revealed as politician’s toured one of the UK’s biggest wine producer’s, the Rathfinny Wine Estate, where they also heard abou...

September, 29, 2015 Virginia wine and cider sales break records in 2015

(WTVR) - Virginia wine sales haven’t gone sour, they increased almost two percent in 2015, Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Tuesday. Wine isn’t the only success story though, as cider sales boom and wineries see an increase in tourists and accolades. Sales reached another record le...