May, 20, 2015 Old Freemark Abbey Winery building gets retrofit

(NVR) - If you’ve driven Highway 29 north of St. Helena, you may be wondering what is happening at the Freemark Abbey Winery and the old stone building that once housed the Silverado Brewery. The roof and interior walls of the old building have been completely removed, and only the outer ...

May, 20, 2015 Napa Valley Vintners Congratulates Nine Newly Certified Napa Green Wineries

(NVV) - The Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) nonprofit association congratulates nine local wineries for their achievement in becoming certified Napa Green. The Napa County Board of Supervisors made the announcement at its meeting earlier today in Napa. Napa Green is a rigorous, third-party certifi...

May, 20, 2015 Home-brewed morphine now possible

(TDB) - Scientists have discovered a way of brewing morphine using the same equipment as a home brew beer kit by genetically modifying yeast to convert sugar to morphine. Up until now, morphine has only been able to be produced from harvesting poppies. However this latest research, published in ...

May, 20, 2015 Gallo Acquires Napa Valley Vineyards

/PRNewswire/ - An affiliate of E. & J. Gallo Winery (Gallo) announced today it has purchased Cypress Ranch and a portion of the Palisades Vineyard in California's Napa Valley . The combined 642 acres are located in Napa Valley and consist of approximately 258 acres of vine...

May, 20, 2015 California: Drought, Oversupply and Sustainability on Growers' Minds

(Wines&Vines) - As usual, this year’s Vineyard Economics Seminar provided an almost overwhelming amount of information for growers, wineries and lenders to consider. Two themes touched almost all the sessions at the seminar held May 15 at the Napa Valley Marriott: the large inventory o...

May, 20, 2015 2015 Harvest Report: Australia and New Zealand

(Wine-Searcher) - The 2015 vintage is wrapped up Down Under. Wine Searcher takes a look back at the season across Australasia. New Zealand Official harvest statistics are not expected until early June, but all reports indicate a smaller harvest will be declared in New Zealand in 2015, foll...

May, 20, 2015 Big switch: Screw tops for fine wine

(VisaliaTimesDelta) - They don’t stand on snobbishness when it comes to making wine at Washington State University. For the past six years, every wine made by a WSU enology student or researcher has come with a screw cap. “It’s the best technology for closing wine in a glass...

May, 20, 2015 Beyoncé Supposedly Poured a $20,000 Bottle of Wine Into a Hot Tub—and the Internet Is Feeling Some Type of Way About It

Oh, must be nice to be a celebrity, right? Fans have been talking about  Nicki Minaj  and  Beyoncé 's "Feeling Myself" music video since it  dropped yesterday  (exclusively on Tidal, then leaked on YouTube, then taken off YouTube...), and now, the Twitterverse...