May, 30, 2014 DIAGEO UNVEILS PLAN TO BUILD $115M DISTILLERY

(TDB) - Diageo has announced plans to build a new $115m distillery in Kentucky with a production capacity of 1.8 million gallons (750,000 nine-litre cases), marking its continued commitment to the American whiskey sector. The facility will be built on 300 acres of property located on Benson Pike...

May, 30, 2014 Vinexpo: Asian investors still thirsty for Bordeaux chateaux deals

(Decanter) - Prospective Asian buyers of Bordeaux chateaux packed a seminar room at Vinexpo Asia Pacific this week to learn about the process of purchasing an estate - suggesting more deals are on the horizon. The number of Bordeaux wine estates sold to Chinese buyers has risen steadily in the p...

May, 30, 2014 BEER BAN THREATENED AT OKTOBERFEST

(TDB) - A US beer festival, which has been celebrating Oktoberfest for the last 40 years, may be prevented from selling beer after Utah’s alcohol commission said it was “tightening up” its rules. Beer lovers have long gathered at the Snowbird Ski resort in Utah to celebrate the...

May, 30, 2014 Fraudster Rudy's Sentence Postponed Again As Court Seeks More Victims

(Wine-Searcher) - Few victims of “the biggest and most successful wine counterfeiter in the world” have come forward to either demand punishment or repayment and that is causing a conundrum for U.S. District Judge Richard Berman. The prosecution provided a “conservative estimat...

May, 29, 2014 ‘Red, red wine…without sulfites’: Chr. Hansen promises paradigm shift

(BeverageDaily) - Chr. Hansen claims its new wine culture is a ‘fantastic launch’ that will greatly increase the speed and predictability of malolactic fermentation and remove the need for producers to use sulfites as preservatives. Laurent Hubert, marketing direcotr for wine cult...

May, 29, 2014 Sales of Oregon wineries hitting record numbers, new Silicon Valley Bank study finds

(OL) - More than 10 percent of Oregon wineries are strongly considering selling in the next five years, according to a study released Wednesday. The number jumps to 31 percent for wineries that are "open to a sale under the right circumstances." "If you're in the market for a winery as a comm...

May, 29, 2014 World of Wines: Wine industry's fight against counterfeiters

(RN) - From time to time I mention the value toward collecting and trading wines. I came across a valuable piece regarding counterfeit wines and what the big names in French wine are prepared to do about the illegal representation of their wine with fake and forged labels.  Much of this int...

May, 29, 2014 Does A Wine's 'Terroir' Really Matter? Study Says Yes

(PopSci) - A new study identified wines made in two different vineyards, two kilometers apart, by their chemistry alone. The word is pronounced, roughly, like "tear-rawr" and it's French. It means the conditions in which wine grapes grow—which vineyards they grow in, what kind of sunlight ...