August, 04, 2015 Wine And Cancer Are Linked, But Not In The Way You Expect

(Forbes) - Napa Valley may not exactly jump to mind as a hub for something other than wine. But this weekend, Napa will be ground zero for an unexpected industry: cancer research. There are two good reasons for that. One is that the 17th annual V Foundation Wine Celebration — which i...

August, 04, 2015 Wineries Fight Back Against Illinois Lawsuits

(WineSpectator) - A quirk of Illinois law has allowed a Chicago attorney to file lawsuits against dozens of wineries and wine retailers, forcing vintners to question if they should stop doing business with Illinois customers. Now a California wine-trade group has decided to fight back, urging judge...

August, 03, 2015 Beyond Red, White and Rosé: Wine Color Decoded

(WSJ) - Much can be gleaned from a glance at a wine, including its age, texture, alcohol level and sometimes grape varietal. You’ll never look at a glass of wine the same way IN THE 2006 MOVIE “Local Color,” a great but long-forgotten painter reviews the work of his young prot&...

August, 03, 2015 Massachusetts: Thousands Of Gallons Of Wine Destroyed In Charlton Winery Fire

(CBSLocal) - An historic winery in central Massachusetts was destroyed in a huge fire late Sunday night. The  Charlton Orchards Farm & Winery  on Old Worcester Road was completely engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived just after 10:30 p.m. Owner Nathan Benjamin recalled l...

August, 03, 2015 How to halt wine world’s biggest killer?

(Lepanmedia) - Imagine a vine disease with no cure that affects an area the size of France and Italy’s vineyards combined. We’re not talking about phylloxera, the vine louse that once devastated European vineyards. In 2015, the biggest threats to wine grape production are trunk disea...

August, 03, 2015 Minnesota's wineries -- 60 and counting -- aging nicely

(WRAL) - When Alexis Bailly Vineyard in Hastings and Northern Vineyards in Stillwater opened the first wineries in Minnesota in the mid-1970s, the concept was astounding. Minnesota's harsh, unpredictable climate made it difficult to grow reliable wine-worthy grapes, and only a few followed the p...

August, 03, 2015 Viagra 'added to Chinese alcohol'

(BBC) - Distillers in China added Viagra to thousands of bottles of spirits and told customers it had "health-preserving qualities", food safety officials say. More than 5,300 bottles of alcohol were seized by the investigators in the southern city of Liuzhou. They also found packets of a w...

August, 03, 2015 Wildfires continue to blaze across California

(Bendbulletin) - Nearly 20 major wildfires raged across California on Friday, forcing thousands to evacuate under summer skies darkened by smoke as firefighters struggled against the drought-fueled fire season. The fires prompted Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency, which will ...