February, 28, 2014 Brewery crafts lamb-flavoured beer

(TDB) - A Welsh brewery is celebrating St David’s Day by brewing a beer infused with Welsh lamb. Conwy Brewery, based in north Wales, has created its Sunday Toast ale by infusing lamb in the brewing process combining the “aromas of a Sunday roast with a dark ale”. The Welsh lamb...

February, 28, 2014 The wine business is ripe for disruption, and this man is doing it

(Quartz) - “There are only two important people in the wine business—the winemaker and the wine drinker. Right now, they’re both getting screwed." Rowan Gormley doesn’t mince words. The founder of Naked Wines, part venture capital firm and part wholesale buying club, has ...

February, 28, 2014 Is wine still a good financial investment, and is it prudent to trade it online?

(SCMP) - The recent implosion of several British wine funds (Sanderson Forbes, The London Vines and Vinance) and the entry of Bordeaux Fine Wines into provisional liquidation is not promising news for anyone considering wine as an investment. Those failures come at a time when there is greater int...

February, 27, 2014 Lion in Winter: Robert M. Parker Jr. Addresses Wine Writers

(HP) - Robert M. Parker Jr. has been the world's preeminent wine critic and tastemaker for decades. Parker had a huge impact on wine criticism and wine education over the 30 years since he came to national and international prominence. Parker published widely read books and is responsible for the ...

February, 27, 2014 How wine affects women differently than men

(WCPO) - Women are drinking more wine now than any time in recent history. Whether it's a girls' night out, happy hour or just a couch date with a friend, more women are getting together to enjoy a glass or two of wine. Some women call it "mommy juice," or "mommy's time out." There are Facebook ...

February, 27, 2014 Shocking: The French are drinking flavored wines (red lollipop! peach!) and loving them

(LATimes) - The French have gotten into fruit-flavored wines in a big way. As if news of declining consumption of wine overall wasn't enough, drinkers in France are snatching up bottles of rosé pamplemousse (grapefruit-flavored rosé) and rosé mandarin or black currant at an eve...

February, 27, 2014 Wine Becomes More Like Whisky as Alcohol Content Gets High

(ScientificAmerican) - It's not your imagination. Wine really has gotten boozier. In the past two decades the maximum alcohol content of wine has crept up from about 13 percent to, in some cases, northward of 17 percent, a side effect of the growing popularity of wines with richer fruit flavor. Th...

February, 27, 2014 Vinitaly launches first ‘hackathon’

(TDB) - Vinitaly International is challenging more than 400 young people to come up with tech solutions to engage their generation in the world of wine in the industry’s first ever 24-hour “hackathon”. H-ACK Wine is a collaboration between Vinitaly International and H-FARM Ventur...