October, 23, 2014 PERNOD RICARD HAILS RETURN TO GROWTH

(TDB) - Pernod Ricard has predicted organic profit increase of “between +1% and +3%” for 2014/15 as the drinks group announced a return to growth in its first quarter results. Organic sales for the first three months of its year rose by 2%, boosted by a “gradual improvement&rdq...

October, 23, 2014 An Evocative and Sensual Guide to Wine Tasting

(Wine-Searcher) - An award-winning blogger and photographer team up for a fresh perspective on the tastes and aromas of wine. Coffee-table books on wine, no matter how beautiful, tend to have the same types of photos: picturesque barrels in dusty cellars, rippling rows of vines that look like gr...

October, 23, 2014 UC Davis: Tasting Wine From PD-Resistant Grapes

(Wines&Vines) - A small group of commercial winemakers and viticulturists recently sampled grapes and wines made from the 2014 harvest of Pierce’s disease (PD)-resistant wine grape cultivars at the University of California, Davis. With Vitis vinifera parentage and quality, these advanced ...

October, 23, 2014 Mexico’s Burgeoning Wine Scene

(WSJ) - WHAT ARE THE WORLD’S most unlikely wine-producing countries? India, Russia, China? It may surprise you to learn that China has one of the world’s largest wine industries, with more than half a million hectares now planted with vines. I have touched down in some unusually loca...

October, 23, 2014 Where Winemakers Are Like Bears: Barolo And The Game Of Come-Hither

(Forbes) - Let me start with a confession. So far in my life as a wine lover, Piedmont has proven to be a conundrum. I’ve had a hard time getting my head around it, and an equally hard time finding my way “in,” so to speak. I know in my head that there’s a lot to appre...

October, 22, 2014 Health: Is wine the cure for acne?

(UTSanDiego) - UCLA researchers have demonstrated how an antioxidant called resveratrol, derived from grapes and found in wine, works to inhibit growth of the bacteria that causes acne. A team of researchers also found that combining resveratrol with the acne medication benzoyl peroxide may enha...

October, 22, 2014 France Reclaims Title: World's Largest Wine Maker

(ABCNews) - France has reclaimed its crown as world's biggest wine producer after a poor 2014 harvest saw Italy's wine production plunge 15 percent. French vignerons will produce around 46.2 million hectoliters of wine — about 6.16 billion bottles — this year, up 10 percent from a ye...

October, 22, 2014 Sonoma County: Petaluma Gap AVA Bid Blowing in the Wind

(Wine-Searcher) - Sonoma County already has 16 AVAs, but growers in the Petaluma Gap are applying for their own sub-appellation. The Sonoma Coast is the source of some of America's best wines. It's also one of the California's largest and most meaningless American Viticultural Areas, covering ne...