June, 19, 2015 Ask a Somm: Can You Age Screw Cap Wine?

(Eater) - About thirty percent of the wine on offer at Chicago's Embeya—a modern pan-Asian restaurant with French accents—is screw cap. And, according to owner and wine director Attila Gyulai, it's the younger generation that seems more apt to purchase such bottles. While research is on...

June, 19, 2015 ANTONINI: ‘WE DON’T NEED BARRELS’

(TDB) - A leading wine consultant has hit out at the widespread reliance on oak barrels in high quality wine, calling on producers to look at alternatives to the Bordeaux “recipe”. Showing off a range of wines from his  partnership with Bodega Garzón in Uruguay , Alb...

June, 19, 2015 Latest American move on COOL trade dispute could drag process out for years: NDP

(Ipolitics) - An American request for arbitration at the World Trade Organization over Canada’s retaliatory tariff threat in an ongoing dispute over U.S. meat labelling rules will cause lengthy delays, NDP Trade Critic Don Davies warned Thursday. In an interview with  iPolitics,&...

June, 19, 2015 California’s Drought Delivering Tastier Wine In Napa Valley

(CBSSF) — Turns out there is one up side to California’s crippling drought. The extra dry conditions are producing some of the best wine California has seen in nearly a decade. In normal conditions the roots of grape vines grow 10 feet deep. But in dry conditions they are forced t...

June, 19, 2015 INSIGHT-Water wars in California's coastal wine country

(Reuters) - By most measures, California's Central Coast wine industry is thriving. Between 1990 and 2014, harvested wine grape acreage in the growing region around Paso Robles nearly quintupled to 37,408 acres, as vintners discovered that the area's rolling hills, rocky soil and mild clima...

June, 19, 2015 Napa County: Markham wins wine production increase

(NVR) - Markham Vineyards ended up being an easy case for the Napa County Planning Commission the second time around. The commission unanimously agreed on Wednesday that the winery located along Highway 29 north of St. Helena can increase production from 300,000 gallons annually to 429,000 gallo...

June, 19, 2015 B.C. Eyes New Wine Appellation Rules

(Wines&Vines) - One short year after processing the province’s first sub-appellation proposal, the British Columbia Wine Authority faces an industry-led movement to overhaul its system of geographical indications (GIs). “We just had the Golden Mile Bench sub-GI approved, however,...

June, 18, 2015 Will the Corona Flow Fast Enough to Meet U.S. Demand?

(MSN) - Here at the Nava Brewery just over the border from Texas and south of thirsty beer country, robotic cranes hoist bottles of Corona Extra into cases a robot stacks onto pallets for pickup by driverless vehicles. This is as state-of-the-art as it gets in the North American beer industry, a...