August, 14, 2014 Champagne the Next Target for Investors

(Wine-Searcher) - With prices for top Bordeaux and Burgundy becoming prohibitive, investors should cast their eyes a little further north. Investors looking for a more affordable way to get into wine should be looking at Champagne rather than Bordeaux or Burgundy, according to a London-based wine ...

August, 14, 2014 Wine drone put to work in US

(TDB) - A US company has developed a drone capable of scaring away vineyard pests and collecting vital environmental data for winemakers, among a myriad of other uses set to benefit the wine industry. Mention drones and the first thing people tend to think of are those used by the military in f...

August, 14, 2014 Astrology makes it way into winemaking

(TheDailyStar) - Biodynamics is a new(-ish) buzzword in the wine world. The Austrian radical thinker Rudolf Steiner introduced biodynamics as a sustainable agricultural concept 90 years ago. Essentially, Steiner argued that soil needs to be re-energized with substances prepared from veget...

August, 14, 2014 Collio wine country: Italy's undiscovered region

(USAToday) - If any area within Italy can be described as "picture-perfect," the bucolic wine country of Collio with its rolling hills and vibrant mosaic of emerald green-hued vineyards is a destination worthy of that artistic depiction. Located about an hour-and-a-half drive from Venice, in ...

August, 14, 2014 Napa Launches Pest-Trapping Program

(Wines&Vines) - The Agricultural Commissioner’s office in Napa County has launched a sentinel program to gain an early warning if five potential grape pests show up in the county. Ag commissioner Greg Clark announced that his department is targeting serious pests of wine grapes no...

August, 13, 2014 World’s weirdest alcoholic drinks

(TDB) - From baby mice rice wine infusions to sparkling birch sap wine, we round up some of the world’s weirdest alcoholic concoctions. Most of us would take a crisp Riesling or juicy Shiraz over the afore mentioned beverages any day. But perhaps the greatest quality of alcohol, not alw...

August, 13, 2014 US Senator calls for powdered alcohol ban

(TDB) - US Senator Charles Schumer has hit out at powdered alcohol, calling on food safety authorities to step in and ban the launch of the new product before it is approved for sale. The senior Democrat Senator for New York claimed that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – ...

August, 13, 2014 Fresno State Dedicates Vineyard to Mechanization Research

(Wines&Vines) - California State University, Fresno, is in the process of redeveloping 120 acres of campus vineyards. Fresno State’s Department of Viticulture and Enology and the Viticulture and Enology Research Center (VERC) use the vineyards for teaching, research and commercial grape p...