July, 01, 2014 Report: EU spending on wine is 'not justified'

(Praguepost) - Money hasn’t been used to expand new markets, auditors claim The impact of EU investment and promotion support for the competitiveness of the wine sector not clearly demonstrated, EU auditors said. A report published today by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) reveals t...

July, 01, 2014 Wine and Technology Come Together in Bordeaux

(Wine-Searcher) - A new business accelerator could help Bordeaux become the world's leading wine technology center. Wine is an increasingly crowded space in the tech scene, with thousands of start-ups, web platforms and apps being released to aid wine drinkers in their pursuit of an easy wine dr...

June, 27, 2014 Unholy Alliance Of Coffee And Wine Unite In A Can

(Consumerist) - People like wine, I’ve heard it said. And people like coffee, I say to my morning cup of joe every day so it knows I appreciate it. But do we really want to mix our booze and our morning buzz, and in a can, no less? After all, a lot of bad can happen to good things when you...

June, 27, 2014 TOP 10 MOST POWERFUL WINE BRANDS 2014

(TDB) - In a list dominated by Australian and Californian wineries, one South American brand stood out as the world’s most powerful of 2014. The Drinks Business Power Brands Report, compiled by the drinks business together with Intangible Business, sees the world’s most influential w...

June, 27, 2014 West Coast’s wine industry grows up

(CP) - A lender's report confirms that the West Coast wine industry has matured, but remains dynamic as businesses change hands. Our View Wine industry expert Rob McMillan, founder of the Premium Wine Division for Silicon Valley Bank, has written about the West Coast wine industry for years. ...

June, 27, 2014 How Radioactive Dating Is Used to Authenticate Wine

(Slate)  - Last week in  Slate , I wrote about why it's  surprisingly difficult to detect wine forgery . In the article, I briefly mentioned one technique that collectors and appraisers have used to authenticate rare bottles: radioactive dating. In particular, searching for trace a...

June, 27, 2014 EU and US at stand-off over .wine domain names

(Decanter) - France is being broadly backed by the European Commission in its call for safeguards on who gets access to .wine and .vin internet domain names, setting up a potential legal showdown with the US government.  Enraged French officials said today (26 June) that the body respo...

June, 27, 2014 Grapes and Water-Use Efficiency

(Wines&Vines) - Droughts in California and Texas; lower levels in subsurface aquifers across the west; water-quality issues in other places: all have implications for agriculture—and specifically for growing grapes. Consequently, water-use efficiency was a timely topic for the daylong sem...