August, 23, 2018 Casamigos sale makes Clooney best paid actor

(TDB) - The sale of Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney’s Tequila brand Casamigos to drinks giant Diageo last year has made him the highest paid actor of 2018. As reported by The Times, Clooney made a cool $239 million in the past 12 months, despite not appearing in a single film, beating ...

August, 23, 2018 Historic Château Masburel sold to UK buyer

(Decanter) - Chris Walker has become the third British owner of Château Masburel, which was founded in 1740, according to the estate agency that brokered the deal, Vineyards-Bordeaux. The 33.4-hectare estate in Fougeyrolles produces Montravel appellation wines, as well as AOC Berge...

August, 23, 2018 Champagne's Black Market in Bold Health

(Wine-Searcher) - With yields restricted in the region, Caroline Henry finds that excess grapes are still reaching the market.           While Champagne's authorities adjust the legally allowed yields and cropping levels ahead of the 2018 harvest, the "u...

August, 23, 2018 Soggy Season for Grape Growers in the East

(Wines&Vines) - It’s been a very wet summer across much of the East, from Georgia to New York and west to the Mississippi River. During the third week in August, there were reports of flooded roads and soggy farms around Seneca Lake in New York’s Finger Lakes region, and above avera...

August, 23, 2018 China tariffs damaging US wine industry

(Aljazeera) - Beijing's 15 percent levy on American wine imports has put hundreds of thousands of dollars of deliveries on hold. A new round of US tariffs on Chinese goods has come into force. Earlier this year, China responded to US measures by imposing a 15 percent levy on American wine i...

August, 23, 2018 A Wine Expert Shares The Best, Most Surprising Things To Sip This Fall

(Refinery29) - We swap our wardrobes according to seasons and the same goes with our wine : whites in spring, rosés in summer, and reds all fall through winter. Just as we don't wear shorts in snow, we also don't sip rosés with a Thanksgiving feast — right? Well, not exactly. F...

August, 23, 2018 The original ‘cult’ wine: How I discovered California’s strangest vineyard

(SFChronicle) - Renaissance, a winery deep in the Sierra foothills, has remarkable wines — and a history almost too outlandish to believe. This morning we published a project that I’ve been working on for many months , a #longread about what I believe is without question California&...

August, 21, 2018 Reviving a Historic Estate Winery in San Benito

(Wines&Vines) - When you begin with a property that has had vines planted on it since the Gold Rush as well as a large winery and acres of estate vines, you have the makings of something special. So thought Christian Pillsbury, a former sales executive with Coravin, when he stumbled upo...