September, 09, 2014 French Wine Drinkers Discover Beer's Appeal

(Wine-Searcher) - Craft beer is making an impression in Paris, as drinkers look for alternatives to wine. A citrus-flavored blonde beer to go with foie gras or a peat-smoked brew perfect for whisky lovers: three decades after microbreweries faced near extinction in wine-dominated France, craft bee...

September, 09, 2014 New York wine makers vie with France's top Merlot producers

(Reuters) - Long Island wineries are smaller, younger and have less experience than their French counterparts, but some local vintners think the Merlot wines they produce compare favorably with those made in Bordeaux. Many different types of grapes flourish in island vineyards 90 miles east of New...

September, 09, 2014 Gov. Brown proclaims September 2014 as California Wine Month

(LATimes) - What with no rain, the Napa earthquake and a vineyard ban in Malibu, California winemakers need some cheering up. Here’s some good news: Gov. Jerry Brown has declared September 2014 as California Wine Month. In doing so, he’s encouraging tourists from around the world to co...

September, 09, 2014 China slump pulls down French wine and spirit exports

(Reuters) - French wine and spirit sales to China dropped by more than a quarter in the first half of the year as Beijing's policy discouraging luxury gift-giving continued to hit high-end alcohol sales, pulling overall French exports down in their wake. French wine and spirits exports shed 7.3 pe...

September, 09, 2014 €1 million DOCG scam hits top Tuscan wine

(TheLocal) -  Finance Police on Tuesday said they had seized a total of 165,467 litres of fake Brunello and Rosso di Montalcino wine. The total haul is thought to be worth €1 million. Great quantities of inferior wine has allegedly been passed off - between 2011 and 2013 – as the r...

September, 09, 2014 Surprise bonanza since Napa quake: dry creeks now flowing

(SFGate) -  Spring water spurts out of rocks and trickles down the moss- and vine-covered cliffs in Solano County's Green Valley - an oasis in a canyon that was parched by drought only two weeks ago. That was before Napa's magnitude 6.0 earthquake. It turns out that the earth's mighty shifti...

September, 08, 2014 Napa, Sonoma wineries examine safety of barrel rooms after quake

(PD) - Though 14 years ago, Bob Torres still vividly remembers the day he and other wine industry officials saw a demonstration at UC Berkeley’s earthquake simulator on the effects of a magnitude 7.4 temblor on a rack of wine barrels stacked six high. In only a few seconds, the rack started ...

September, 08, 2014 Italy Wine Output Predicted to Drop 14% on Rainy Summer

(Bloomberg) - Italy’s wine production may slide about 14 percent this year after a rainy summer brought overcast conditions and fungal rot, according to a forecast from the country’s association of wine-industry technicians. Italian winemakers may produce 41.6 million hectoliters (1.1 ...