July, 29, 2014 Bolly pops! The world's first champagne ice lolly goes on sale in the UK (and it only has 100 calories)

(DailyMail) - It is considerably more expensive than your average 99 ice cream … but it could leave you fizzing with delight. The world’s first champagne ice lolly has gone on sale in Britain. Priced at a not-so-cool £5 each, the push-up lolly, called Pops Classic, contains 37 ...

July, 29, 2014 Chinese-backed firm buys Quixote Winery in Napa Valley

(Decanter) - A company believed to be backed by Chinese investors has bought Quixote Winery in the sought-after Stags Leap District of California's Napa Valley. California-based Le Melange Vineyards & Winery has bought the 17-hectare Quixote estate in Napa from 81-year-old Carl Doumani. Whi...

July, 29, 2014 Franken wine: Bavaria beyond the beer

(USAToday) - How to toast Germany's World Cup win? With German wine, of course. Though Bavaria is famous for beer, wine is king in north Bavaria's Franconia region (Franken in German). The iconic photo of Franken's biggest city, Wurzburg: the Marienberg fortress on a hilltop, nestled next to vineya...

July, 29, 2014 Missouri wine industry still recovering from prohibition

(KSDK) - We've all heard the story about how Anheuser-Busch came roaring back to life after Prohibition ended in 1933. The King of Beers even delivered a wagon of suds to President Franklin Roosevelt at the White House, you may have seen the famous picture of that moment. But another Missouri indu...

July, 25, 2014 Chinese investors buy A$15m Barossa winery

(Decanter) - A company backed by Chinese investors has agreed to buy Yaldara Winery in Barossa Valley from McGuigan wines producer Australian Vintage for A$15m Australian Vintage said it has signed a deal to sell the Yaldara winery and brand for A$15.5m to 1847 Winery, which is a subsidiary of Chi...

July, 25, 2014 AVA Approval Step by Step

(Wines&Vines) - Since the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) announced its approval of the Malibu Coast American Viticultural Area (AVA) on July 18, some 50 grapegrowers in two California counties will finally be able to give their grapes an appealing and appropriate name of or...

July, 25, 2014 Kurniawan to 'tell all' in $3m settlement with billionaire Koch, as sentencing is delayed

(Decanter) - Convicted wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan has agreed to pay $3m and 'tell everything he knows' to settle a lawsuit with billionaire collector Bill Koch, after his sentencing was again delayed. The deal could shed more light on how Kurniawan - also known as Dr Conti - managed to sell mil...

July, 24, 2014 What an oak barrel does for wine

(WP) - Let’s face it: Wine language is confusing. Many of the world’s finest wines (and many more inferior ones) are aged in oak barrels, but if a wine tastes “oaky,” well, that means it tastes like a tree. And if there’s one thing we should all be able to agree ...