June, 08, 2015 Georgia's Giant Clay Pots Hold An 8,000-Year-Old Secret To Great Wine

(NPR) - When I ask Iago Batarshvili to climb into his qvevri, a Georgian clay wine barrel, he rolls his eyes before he drops a ladder into what looks like a hole in the ground and makes his way down. What is a novelty to an observer is, to Batarshvili, simply the way things are done. "I don't ma...

June, 08, 2015 Auction Napa Valley Raises $15.8 Million for Community Health and Children’s Education

(BUSINESSWIRE) - Four beautiful days in Napa Valley inspired a bountiful $15.8 million in proceeds from Auction Napa Valley, the Napa Valley Vintners’ (NVV) annual charity fundraiser. Auction Napa Valley funding enriches the lives of more than 90,000 clients annually in Napa County in the are...

June, 08, 2015 Constellation Brands to Launch New Wine in India This Year

(NewIndianExpress) -  Global alcoholic beverages firm Constellation Brands plans to launch a new wine brand Prosecco in the country this year as it expects India to be one of the biggest wine markets in Asia in five years. "India is a key wine market and there is a huge opportunity (to grow)....

June, 08, 2015 Top Bordeaux negociant bought by French agribusiness firm

(Decanter) - Cordier Mestrezat, one of the top three Bordeaux négociants in terms of turnover, has been sold to a large French agricultural cooperative group, In Vivo. In Vivo has a revenue of 5.7bn euros across 28 countries, and to date has specialised in the fields of agriculture, animal n...

June, 08, 2015 Auction Napa Valley Has a Legendary Day

(Wine-Searcher) - Dinner with the stars, fabulous trips abroad and even some wine – it must be Auction Napa Valley time again. John Legend's music is like Napa Valley Cabernet: a lot of people like it, even more so when it's something they can have but most people cannot. So when Legend une...

June, 08, 2015 New hybrid grapes help grow wine industry in cold US regions

(WRAL) - The Marquette grapevines clinging to a steep, rocky hillside in the southeastern Adirondacks are among a host of new grape varieties that have enabled a boutique wine industry to take root in areas of the Northeast and Midwest that were previously inhospitable. There were about 2,000 wine...

June, 06, 2015 12 Things You MUST See and Do in the Napa Valley

(HuffPost) - When it comes to figuring out what to see and do at any destination, every traveler derives special pleasure from discovering the hidden gems and authentic experiences that uniquely define a place and its people. It can entail tasting new foods, stumbling upon a local with an interesti...

June, 06, 2015 Making Your Wine Brand Stand Out

(Wines&Vines) - For most consumers, wine really isn’t that special; it’s up to producers to make it special. That message may be hard to swallow for a crowd of winemakers and marketers who have dedicated their lives to wine, but Bob Paulinski, a master of wine and retailer BevMo&rsq...