March, 30, 2015 Bordeaux 2014: Chateaux hail strong vintage but market pressure builds

(Decanter) - As many of the world's top wine critics descend on Bordeaux for en primeur tasting week, chateaux are expecting to show the best vintage in four years, but market data suggests rising financial pressure on merchants to entice more consumers to buy. There have already been several atte...

March, 30, 2015 Is climate change altering wine tastes?

(TDB) - Climate change is altering the tastes of wine drinkers, encouraging them to prefer intense, higher alcohol wines, according to a research by Naked Wines. Research by the online wine retailer suggests that tastes are adapting to favour wines affected by moderate climate change, with the...

March, 30, 2015 California Table Wine Could Be Banished In Arkansas

(SWTimes) - Protection of conventional agriculture methods in Arkansas could come at the price of a glass of California wine if a new bill from a Bentonville state representative is passed by the Senate this week. House members voted 57-19 on Thursday to approve HB 1934 by Rep. Dan Douglas, R-Bent...

March, 29, 2015 US: Wine Country's Nuclear Threat

(TheDailyBeast) - A nuclear facility in Washington state's prime wine country is leaching radioactive groundwater and is one natural disaster away from Fukushima 2.0. The Hanford Site, a former nuclear-weapons production facility located in southeastern Washington State near the Oregon border, i...

March, 29, 2015 Champagne's 2014 Earnings Nudge $5bn

(Wine-Searcher) - The domestic market has turned sour but exports are booming for Champagne. Champagne shipments have recovered after a recent dip in their fortunes. In 2014, Champagne producers shipped 307.1 million bottles. While that figure is 31m bottles fewer than the record high in 2008...

March, 27, 2015 Wine Regions That Haven’t Been Ruined by Tourism

(YahooTravel) - We’ve all heard of Napa, Sonoma, Provence, and Tuscany. They’re beautiful and their wines are nothing to scoff at. They also happen to be packed with tourists almost year-round. So where do you go these days for an oenophile’s dream vacation without all of the crow...

March, 27, 2015 Screwcap triumphs in maturation test

(TDB) - A selection of top Australian wines matured under both screwcap and cork led to “ground breaking” results during a blind tasting at this week’s Vinitaly. Presented by Tyson Stelzer, joint winner of this year’s International Wine & Spirit Competition Communica...

March, 27, 2015 Hoping to woo China with white wine

(PD) - What is it going to take to get the Chinese consumer to like white wine? It’s a question that has perplexed U.S. wine exporters to China for years. Studies from the early 1990s that showed a connection between resveratrol, a key ingredient in red wine, and a reduction in heart d...