January, 28, 2015 Storing Wine in Glass Versus New and Recycled PET Packaging: A Chemical Analysis

(Academicwino) - As everyone who reads this blog probably knows, wine is traditionally stored in glass bottles with a cork seal. With the issue of climate change becoming much more dire with every passing day, new products that are more environmentally sound and sustainable are much more desired an...

January, 28, 2015 Wine Press: Old World influence and New World innovation

(SCS) - There’s an endless discussion of Old World versus New World wines, and what a recent trip to France revealed is that both are wonderful in different ways and for different reasons. Old World wines are restrained, structured and redolent with tastes of earth and minerals. New World ...

January, 28, 2015 Home Listings Show Where Wine Flows

(WSJ) - In 2013, the U.S. surpassed France to became the world’s largest wine market, with the country drinking 892 million gallons of wine, or about 2.8 gallons per person, according to the Wine Institute, a trade group. Those gallons aren’t evenly distributed, though. To get a sens...

January, 28, 2015 BAR LAUNCHES GIVENCHY COCKTAIL LIST

(TDB) - The Green Bar at the Café Royal hotel in Piccadilly has launched a cocktail list inspired by the perfumes of French fashion house Givenchy. The Atelier Collection, which goes on sale on 1 February, was devised by the hotel’s mixologist Tiziano Tasso and features seven c...

January, 28, 2015 Who’s Driving World Wine Consumption?

(WSJ) - HOW MANY BOTTLES of wine do you think were produced last year? A friend and I were trying to figure out an answer to this question over supper the other day. I won’t embarrass myself by revealing how far off I was, but let’s just say it was by a very long way. The latest figu...

January, 27, 2015 Hungary's Tokaj wine region to get 330m euro investment

(Decanter) - Hungary's Tokaj wine region is to get a 330m-euro investment to both upgrade its vineyards and bolster the international reputation of its wines. The funding will come from both Hungary’s central government and the European Union and has been allocated until 2020, the Hungaria...

January, 27, 2015 'Free' wine kiosks cost Pennsylvania $300K in legal fees

(MCALL) - The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has spent almost $300,000 defending a claim by a Montgomery County company that supplied the supermarket wine kiosks before it was aborted because the machines were unpopular, a newspaper reported. The legal fees were reported Sunday by the Pittsbu...

January, 27, 2015 Direct Wine Sales Grow as Big States Go Shopping

(Wine-Searcher) - The country's most populous states are punching above their weight in buying their wines straight from the source. Direct-to-consumer wine sales boomed in the U.S. last year, marking growth of more than 15 percent and sales of almost $2 billion, but it's the same people doing t...