Wine Industry News

June, 04, 2015 English Abbey’s Caffeinated Wine Gains Popularity and Scrutiny

(NYTimes) - Sticky, sweet and flavored like spiced wine, with a hint of violet and a jolt of caffeine, the alcoholic drink produced here for the last century by Benedictine monks is the heart of a thriving enterprise. Buckfast Abbey , where the tonic wine is blended, employs scores of people, d...

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June, 04, 2015 Wine with your Taco Bell Sriracha Quesarito? The chain is testing alcohol options

(LATimes) - Taco Bell is where you might end up post-midnight, drunk on vodka Redbulls, but some new additions to the menu could get you into the Mexican fast food chain before dark.   Yum Brands Inc., the Irvine-based company behind Taco Bell, is testing beer, wine and alcoholic ...

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May, 30, 2015 Your Brain on Coffee, Wine, and Cannabis

(WineFolly) - A funny, but realistic, look at the mental effects of 3 of the world’s most talked about substances. What You’re like on Coffee , Wine , and Cannabis A coffee drinker will explain the profundity of getting things done. A wine drinker will enthuse about the...

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May, 30, 2015 Pursuing balance? Or anti-flavor wine elite?

(WineLoversPage) - It is hard not to think of Shakespeare’s aging King Lear as the wine world begins moving past the era of Robert M. Parker Jr., the powerful American wine critic who popularized the 100-point scoring system and who once wielded such market-moving power that his taste for...

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May, 30, 2015 The Wrath of Grapes

(NYTimes) - In the steep hills of Central California near Lompoc, on a slope that runs along Santa Rosa Road, two vineyards lie side by side. To all appearances, the Sea Smoke and Wenzlau properties occupy one continuous parcel of land. The vines are indistinguishable; they grow in the same soil an...

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May, 30, 2015 Cork it: Many Bay Area wine producers are switching back to natural cork

(BizJournals) - Christopher Silva, a fifth-generation Sonoma County native, is big on sustainable agriculture and "green" alternatives. So back in 2013, he decided to stop using synthetic wine bottle closures on virtually all of his company's wines and return to the natural solution: Cork. And he ...

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May, 30, 2015 California ABC Not Trolling for Miscreants

(Wines&Vines) - Winery managers who have been looking over their shoulders about possible social media mishaps may be relieved to find out that the California Alcoholic Beverage Control board (ABC) isn’t after them. “We don’t employ people to search the Internet for violatio...

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May, 29, 2015 In third year, Napa's BottleRock looks to crush attendance records

(PD) - Tens of thousands of music fans and gourmands are expected to pour into Napa starting Friday for BottleRock, a three-day event that is marking its third year and appears to have found its groove. The likes of Robert Plant and Gwen Stefani playing a venue that also serves as Napa’s fai...

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