October, 21, 2014 Wine and vinegar chemicals isolated which best lure spotted-wing Drosophila

(HW) - US researchers have developed a new lure for the fruit pest spotted-wing Drosophila (SWD) using compounds in wine and vinegar which are most appealing to the flies. Both wine and vinegar have already been used in lures for SWD, which is an established pest in the North American fruit indu...

October, 21, 2014 Canada: B.C. Wine Sub-appellation Moves Ahead

(Wines&Vines) - British Columbia’s first subappellation is in sight, paving the way for additional proposals for new geographical indications in one of Canada’s primary wine regions. The three-member board of the B.C. Wine Authority (BCWA) last week asked the province’...

October, 21, 2014 Why Amar’e Stoudemire and a Bunch of Other Rich People Are Bathing in Red Wine

(NYMag)  - Like millions of Americans, New York Knicks forward Amar’e Stoudemire enjoys a few glasses of wine each week. But Stoudemire isn’t drinking those merlots and cabernets — he is bathing in them. Last Wednesday, he  posted a photo  on his Instagram account i...

October, 20, 2014 California: Fracking ban on the ballot in tiny San Benito County has big statewide implications

(CCT) - When President Ronald Reagan was pushing for offshore oil drilling on the edges of Monterey Bay in the mid-1980s, Santa Cruz voters fought back, approving a ballot measure that banned construction of all storage tanks, pipelines and other oil equipment in the city. The small protest vote...

October, 20, 2014 Where World Wine Collectors Find Their Unicorns

(Forbes) - At first glance, Michael Greenlee looks more like the eighth man for the Leicester Tigers rugby club than the Daddy Warbucks of wine that he really is.  At least here in Newport, Rhode Island, a seaside city once dominated by America’s original one-percenters and savants of ov...

October, 20, 2014 The Futuristic Gadgets Running Today’s High-Tech Vineyards

(Wired) - Sure, the label on your Côtes du Rhinoceros suggests that the grapes were tended by craggy, distant-eyed, French-accented wine savants who nurture the earth, as did their fathers and their fathers' fathers before them. But the truth is, if modern technology can make for better vino ...

October, 20, 2014 California: Sonoma County cracks down on Bella Vineyards

(PD) - Bella Vineyards is situated at the end of West Dry Creek Road, a narrow, winding county byway that curves along remote hillsides north of Healdsburg. The winery is famous for its robust zinfandels and romantic wine cave dinners, its accolades detailed in wine industry magazines and on review...

October, 20, 2014 French Vineyards Attracting New Blood

(Wine-Searcher) - France's wine industry is getting an injection of fresh ideas as more people are helped into the industry.   Safer, the organization that controls agricultural land sales in France, has announced that of the 240 vineyard sales they are involved with on average each year...