October, 03, 2014 Strong Summer Beer Season Boosts Constellation In Second Quarter, Wine And Spirits Up 3%

(SND) - Constellation Brands enjoyed continued momentum from its lineup of Mexican beer brands in its fiscal second quarter ended in August, as the company’s consolidated net sales rose 10% to $1.6 billion. On an organic basis, net sales increased 5%, and operating income on a comparable basi...

October, 03, 2014 California: Short and Sweet Mendocino Harvest

(Wines&Vines) - As with southern and central California, the growing season in Mendocino County started early and was compressed into a shorter time. “Bob Swain, winemaker at Parducci Cellars, told me this was the earliest that grapes were picked in his 17 years there in Ukiah,” sa...

October, 03, 2014 Bordeaux's Crus Bourgeois Say "Oui" to a New Classification

(Wine-Searcher) - Médoc producers agree to another attempt to reclassify their châteaux, after several previous failures. Bordeaux’s cru bourgeois wineries have announced an ambitious project to launch a new classification, seven years after the last attempt dissolved in acrimon...

October, 03, 2014 Beer & Wine: Comparison Of Popular Brands, Surprising Facts And Market Trends

(Camparecamp) - “If you can’t drink it, don’t cook with it,” so said the late celebrity chef, Keith Floyd, about using wines to flavor food. If the guy was still around, he’d agree that any of the top wine brands we’ve listed in the infographic below would pass h...

October, 02, 2014 Tallying the Benefits of Alternative Energy

(Wines&Vines) - Northwest vineyards are bringing in the grapes, but an equally important harvest is helping power the crush at many of the region’s wineries. Solar and wind energy are regularly harvested across the region, the fruit of a push during the past decade to reduce emissions o...

October, 02, 2014 Have acne? Drink wine to get rid of it

(TheHealthSite) - If you have acne, here’s another reason to have some wine. According to a recent study published in the journal Dermatology and Therapy, resveratrol, a key antioxidant present in red wine, inhibits the growth of acne-causing bacteria. Researchers at the University of Califor...

October, 01, 2014 Wine Beats Yogurt in Health Stakes

(Wine-Searcher) - Probiotic levels in wine beat more traditional dairy sources of good bacteria, a new study in Spain reveals. Yet more good news for wine lovers, after scientists announced that healthy probiotics bacteria have been discovered in wine and may be beneficial for people's health. Th...

October, 01, 2014 Languedoc hit by worst floods in 60 years

(Decanter) - Two months of rainfall in just three hours has caused extreme flooding in France's Languedoc region, prompting concerns about damage to vineyards during the 2014 harvest. Officials have declared 73 communes in the Herault area of Languedoc, near to Montpellier, as disaster zones aft...