January, 25, 2015 Sunday News Shorts: Hot Aussies and Frozen Spain

(Wine-Searcher) - Australian wines make a comeback on the export market and two more icewine regions step into the limelight. Australian exports on the rise The value of Australian wine exports rose for the first time in seven years, boosted by demand for premium wines in North America, Eur...

January, 25, 2015 The state of wine drinking in America today

(Theweek) - What beverage has grown continuously in consumption for the past 20 years in America? Wine. According to the Wine Institute, in 1993 Americans only drank 1.74 gallons of wine per capita. In 2013 that figure had risen to 2.82 gallons. This makes the U.S. the largest wine consuming nat...

January, 23, 2015 Bordeaux Is Illiquid and Other Wine Investment Hazards

(Bloomberg) - More than half a dozen firms peddling wine investments in the U.K. alone went belly up last year. Why have there been so many flops? “Most funds collapse because they have the wrong structure, the wrong strategy and no focus on how to exit,” says Brian Mota, co-manager ...

January, 23, 2015 Discover The World's Most Controversial Wines: Natural Wine

(Forbes) - Natural Wines: Robert Parker has called them a “scam… that will be exposed as a fraud.” Newsweek claims it “tastes worse than putrid cider.” At the same time, there are wine fairs and groups around the world that celebrate them and restaurants that devote t...

January, 23, 2015 Wine stolen from French Laundry recovered in North Carolina

(NVR) - Investigators have recovered the bulk of the premium wine bottles stolen from The French Laundry on Christmas Day, according to the Napa County Sheriff’s Office. No arrests have been made. After weeks of investigation, detectives on Monday flew to Greensboro, North Carolina, where ...

January, 22, 2015 Vineyard Frost Protection Deadline Nears

(Wines&Vines) - The Feb. 1 deadline has been pushed back a few times because of various legal challenges, but this year growers who use water for frost protection near the Russian River in Mendocino and Sonoma counties will need to make sure they’re in compliance with a state-mandate...

January, 22, 2015 Sonoma County: Zoning board turns down Guy Fieri’s proposed winery

(PD) - Celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s proposed winery on a narrow byway west of Santa Rosa was unanimously turned down Thursday by the Sonoma County Board of Zoning Adjustments. The preliminary 5-0 vote, which needs to be confirmed in a future board meeting, came after two hours of public comm...

January, 22, 2015 Wine Exporters Shift Focus from Asia to United States

(Wine-Searcher) - The United States not China is – and will continue to be – the world's most important consumer of wine. The United States, as the world's most important wine market in terms of volume, value and growth, will be a "Special Guest" at Vinexpo 2015. At a London press...