September, 17, 2014 Billionaire Bill Koch Fights Fake Wine With Three-Man Dream Team

(MoneyNews) - The University of Bordeaux campus resembles a weekend estate in the Gironde: sprawling gardens suffused with the smell of geraniums, scattered chateaux co-opted as classrooms or labs. Tucked away in a leafy grove is an incongruously modern research facility known as the Centre d&rsquo...

September, 17, 2014 New York OKs Out-of-State Grapes

(Wines&Vines) - From Iowa to New England, the winter of 2014 was unusually cold. New York was no exception, and it endured a series of low-temperature episodes in January and February that resulted in significant bud injury in many vineyards. Cold-sensitive vinifera grape varieties were damaged...

September, 16, 2014 Burgundy's Chateau de Pommard sold to Silicon Valley entrepreneur

(Decanter) - Chateau de Pommard in Burgundy has been sold to American digital entrepreneur Michael Baum for an undisclosed fee. Baum, who is chief executive of Founder.org in California’s Silicon Valley, has bought the 18th Century estate from Maurice Giraud. Chateau de Pommard lies in the P...

September, 16, 2014 Castro Valley winery fined $115,000 for using volunteers

(MercuryNews) - A small-time vintner's use of volunteer workers has put him out of business after the state squeezed him like a late-summer grape for $115,000 in fines -- and sent a chill through the wine industry. The volunteers, some of them learning to make wine while helping out, were illegall...

September, 15, 2014 SABMiller’s Bid for Heineken Opens the Door to Possible Beer Industry Mergers

(NYTimes) - When Anheuser-Busch InBev moved to take full control of the Mexican beer maker Modelo, it thought the deal would be a cinch. The biggest brewer in the world already controlled Modelo with a 50 percent stake, and sealing its ownership would do little to change the competitive landscap...

September, 15, 2014 If you're asthmatic, wine may pose a risk

(Stuff) - One of the UK's biggest supermarket chains withdrew two batches of imported chardonnay from sale this week because there was no warning on the label that the wine contained sulphites. The same could happen here, because New Zealand works to much the same rules when it comes to protecti...

September, 15, 2014 Napa startup eyes wine quake cure

(NBBJ) - A local company thinks its new technology for isolating a room or a portion of it from violent earthquake motion enough to protect priceless ancient statues in a museum could also save tall tanks and stacks of barrels such as those that twisted, toppled and ruptured in the recent south Nap...

September, 15, 2014 U.S. Winery Count Passes 8,000

(Wines&Vines) - As domestic wine sales continue growing, the number of U.S. wineries has just passed 8,000 for the first time. Wines Vines Analytics counted 8,049 wineries as of Sept. 1 and reported that Oregon saw the largest percentage increase in wineries during the past year. The ne...