May, 13, 2014 USA becomes world No.1 wine market as French drinking drops

(Reuters) - The United States became the world's biggest wine market last year, beating France into second place for the first time as consumption falls in the country widely seen as the drink's natural home. U.S. consumers ‎bought 29.1 million hectoliters of wine in 2013, a rise of 0.5 perc...

May, 13, 2014 Catastrophic Collapse of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Begins

(LS) - The catastrophic collapse of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet is underway, researchers said today (May 12). The biggest glaciers in  West Antarctica  are hemorrhaging ice without any way to stem the loss, according to two independent studies. The unstoppable retreat is the l...

May, 13, 2014 PROSECUTORS CALL FOR 14 YEARS IN KURNIAWAN CASE

(TDB) - Lawyers prosecuting convicted wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan have panned his defence’s plea for leniency and called for a jail term of up to 14 years. Towards the beginning of the month the Indonesian national’s defence team hoped to find a sympathetic ear among the jury ...

May, 13, 2014 Reseveratrol in Red Wine No Miracle Cure

(Wine-Searcher) - A recent study shows that drinking red wine– or taking resveratrol supplements – isn't an ingredient for a longer life after all. U.S. researchers may have found a flaw with the "French Paradox," or the notion that people who drink red wine can somehow avoid the pit...

May, 13, 2014 The Drunkest Countries in the World, Mapped

(Mashable) - The average person who is 15 or older, globally, drinks 26.2 cups of pure alcohol in a given year, according to a   new report   from the World Health Organization (WHO). That equates to a little less than half an ounce of pure alcohol each day. The highest consumpti...

May, 12, 2014 New software automates wine-ship filings

(NBBJ) - Filing reports and paying taxes and fees for shipping wine directly to consumers across the country can take hours of staff time a month, but a new service from a software company powering the direct-shipping workflows of many North Coast wine producers claims to have cut that time to ...

May, 12, 2014 Living On Bitcoin A Year Later: Touring Wine Country With Virtual Money

(Forbes) - This week I decided to quit the U.S. dollar cold-turkey and pay for my food, shelter, transportation and entertainment only with the digital currency Bitcoin. It’s not the first time. I did the same experiment last year when Bitcoin was far more underground than it is now, and...

May, 12, 2014 Wine buff? More like wine bluff! Two-thirds of British drinkers admit they know nothing about choosing wine

(DailyMail) - British people are keen wine-drinkers, getting through an impressive 1.6 billion bottles of wine every year. However it appears that while we are happy slurping, swilling and sipping, we are far from experts on what we're actually drinking. In fact, more than two-thirds of us admit ...