June, 06, 2015 An Uber for wine delivery? Nakedwines.com, startup partners hope so

(BizJournals) - Can a new software tool upend the world of wine delivery? Nakedwines.com, a Napa-based winery that sells its wines online, hopes so. It is partnering on ship-direct-to-home wine orders in San Francisco with Doorman, a S.F. startup. Doorman's platform lets consumers schedule wi...

June, 05, 2015 Senators from Ohio and California make beer-wine bet on NBA Finals

(CBSSport) - Ohio senator Rob Portman and California senator Dianne Feinstein have made a bet on the NBA Finals between the  Cleveland Cavaliers  and  Golden State Warriors . Portman put up a six-pack of Sharpshooter Wheap IPA from the Great Lakes Brewing Co., while Feinstein put up ...

June, 05, 2015 The 7 Habits of Highly Annoying Wine People

(WSJ) - WINE IS A BEVERAGE  meant to bring pleasure, perhaps even joy. And yet, for me, some aspects of wine can make it much less enjoyable. Some of these irritations are small, some are much bigger—from waiters who unceremoniously dump the contents of a bottle into customers’ gl...

June, 04, 2015 Buena Vista Winery officially unsheaths its Tool Museum

(SonomaNews) - It’s not many a Sonoma man who can claim to have been devoured by hungry alligators – and that’s not what he’s best remembered for. But such is the case of Agoston Haraszthy or, rather, the self-proclaimed “Count” of Buena Vista Winery, the 158-...

June, 04, 2015 Grapes of Wrath: Muslim wine ferments divisions in China

(AFP) - When Chen Naibao got into the wine business, he left out the pigeon blood and lamb meat that have been hallmarks of vintages in China's Xinjiang region for more than a thousand years. The animal parts are usually added to enhance flavour and increase the supposed medicinal qualities of m...

June, 04, 2015 US: Northwest Growers Undaunted by Weather

(Wines&Vines) - It’s starting out as the Mark Twain vintage in the Northwest, where reports of vineyard damage seem to be greatly exaggerated—not unlike the famed humorist’s death. Hail-battered blooms and frost-damaged buds are low on the list of growers’ worrie...

June, 04, 2015 Massive Wine Fraud Sting Nets Prominent Canadian Industry Figures

(WineSpectator) - A ring of alleged counterfeiters has been arrested for faking 20 popular brands over four years and evading $11 million in taxes. Montréal police arrested 12 individuals—many in the wine industry—last month in what authorities are calling “one of t...

June, 04, 2015 Auction Napa Valley features wine exotica

(NVR) - As the last vestiges of BottleRock 2015 are being swept up, preparations are underway for a valley celebration of a different sort: the Napa Valley Vintners’ the 35th annual wine auction Thursday through Sunday. What began in 1981 as a homespun afternoon auction to help pay for hea...