September, 08, 2014 Click now, sip later with crowdsourced wines

(JC) - Ever taken a sip of wine and thought, “I could do better?” Now’s your chance. Two wineries — Columbia Crest in Washington and La Crema in California — recently launched crowdsourced wine projects in which online voters get to decide everything from the types of...

September, 08, 2014 A Venture Capitalist Walks Into A Winery...

(Forbes) - Jay Levy and Greg Scheinfeld didn’t have a famous winemaker. They didn’t have a winery. They didn’t even have a vineyard. But Levy is co-founder and partner of Zelkova Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm. And Scheinfeld is a financial industry refugee who b...

September, 08, 2014 Why Major League Baseball Got Into...the Wine Business?

(FC) - The Philadelphia Phillies Reserve 2012 Central Coast Proprietary Red wine “balances power and finesse, much like the Phillies lineup, while going long on the flavor fans demand.” The Chicago Cubs 2012 Central Coast red “is a mix of players, combined to make a bold, fruit-fo...

September, 08, 2014 USDA Awards Money to 28 Wineries

(Wines&Vines) - Passage of the Farm Bill earlier this year was good news for the wine industry as well as other agriculturally based businesses. Based on the funding provided by that bill, U.S. Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced the 247 recipients of $25 million in Value-Added...

September, 07, 2014 Conditions ripe as Oregon wine growers ramp up grape harvest

(OregonLive) - Oregon's Dundee Hills suffered from late rains last year that impacted the quality of wine in one of  Oregon's most productive regions. Not this year. Vintners in the Willamette Valley say the conditions have so far been perfect, and early September has given white-grap...

September, 07, 2014 World's lesser-known wine varietals worth trying

(FoxNews) -One of the many things I love about the wine world is how I keep learning about different countries, cultures, histories--and grapes. Would you believe that there are there are over 10,000 grape varieties in existence? But there are only 1,300 of those are used for commercial winemak...

September, 06, 2014 This Graphic Shows You How a Grape Goes from Vine to Wine

(LH) - There's more to making wine than just growing a bunch of grapes, mashing them up, and letting them ferment in a barrel. The folks at  VinePair  put together this simple but informative graphic that shows you the life of a wine grape, from growing on the vine to fermentation to ...

September, 05, 2014 Sonoma Harvest Wine Auction smashes record

(Decanter) - The annual Sonoma Harvest Wine Auction has raised $4m, close to three times more than the event's previous record of $1.4m set in 2013. A sell-out audience of 700 attendees, some of whom came from as far afield as Arizona , New Mexico , Florida and Oklahoma , bid on 38 lots. ...