June, 24, 2014 Study Identifies Wine Consumer Personalities

(Wines&Vines) - Constellation Brands today rolled out the new and improved version of its long-running Project Genome study that personifies wine consumer groups using demographic segments. In this third phase of the 10-year-old study, the giant publicly traded wine and spirits company fou...

June, 24, 2014 The Art of Wine

(WineMag) -  N early every Californian wine lover knows beloved Scottish poet Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous quote, “Wine is bottled poetry.” His statement adorns Highway 29 as you enter the heart of Napa Valley.  So is what Stevenson wrote true? Is wine poetry?&nbs...

June, 24, 2014 Napa Grapegrowers Counter Myths about Farmworkers

There are more women and U.S. citizens in Napa's vineyards than you probably thought. With immigration continuing to be a hot-button issue in the United States, the Napa Valley Grapegrowers (NVGG) stepped forward last week to try to correct myths about farmworkers. It is a striking fact tha...

June, 24, 2014 Green Wine Labels May Send the Wrong Signal

(Huffingtonpost) - For some wine lovers, going green means sacrificing quality, according to a recent study conducted by UCLA researchers on eco-labeled wines. Eco-labels (think USDA organic and Energy Star) are part of a growing surge of environmental policies aimed at disclosing information on...

June, 24, 2014 Denis Dubourdieu buys Chateau Doisy-Dubroca

(Decanter) - Winemaking professor Denis Dubourdieu has reunited two parts of the old Doisy estate in Bordeaux's Sauternes region after buying Chateau Doisy-Dubroca from Berenice Lurton for an undisclosed fee. Doisy-Dubroca is an 1855 classed second growth in the Barsac appellation of Sauternes, ...

June, 23, 2014 It’s official — wine tastes better with a nice ambiance!

(THS) - Do music and room color have an effect on wine taste? Yes, very much, says a new study. Results of the world’s largest multi-sensory wine experiment revealed that a simple change in color and sound can affect the taste of wine by around 10 percent. ‘Conducting the world’s ...

June, 23, 2014 Europeans testing sulphite-free preservation of wine

(SacBee) - Europeans, well-known for their love of wine, are testing a novel preservation method aimed at significantly reducing or even eliminating sulphites, which can cause allergic reactions in some people. Sulphites are formed when sulphur dioxide, added to most of the world's wine as an an...

June, 23, 2014 DIAGEO TAKES CONTROL OF UNITED SPIRITS

(TDB) - Five years after entering initial takeover discussions, Diageo has finally achieved ownership of United Spirits (USL), India’s dominant spirits company. Following the successful close of its £1.1 billion tender offer on 19 June, Diageo will own 54.7% of USL for which it will...