November, 05, 2013 Fake wine now accounts for 20% of market

(TDB) - The claim was published last Friday in regional French newspaper Sud Ouest and refers to value sales, linked predominantly to top Bordeaux and Burgundy. Last week, magistrates in Bordeaux sentenced Armenian immigrant Armand Aramian to four months in prison for selling fake Château Mo...

November, 04, 2013 Top 10 Wine Destinations Around the World

(HuffingtonPost) - Going wine tasting is a charming way to spend a day or a weekend. It is so enjoyable, in fact, that wine tasting has become a vacation in itself. Wine tourism has increased in the past 10 years and many wineries around the globe now provide exquisite tasting rooms with scenic vin...

November, 04, 2013 Diageo vs. PepsiCo: Which Stock's Dividend Dominates?

(DailyFinance) - Dividend stocks outperform non-dividend-paying stocks over the long run. It happens in good markets and bad, and the benefit of dividends can be quite striking -- dividend payments have made up about 40% of the market's average annual return from 1936 to the present day. But few o...

November, 04, 2013 Burgundy hosts Beaune Wine Auction

(TheStar) - EVERY November, oenophiles, wine sellers and celebrity personalities gather in Burgundy, France, for the prestigious Hospices de Beaune wine auction. Recent vintages from the Hospices’ vineyards are sold in 228-litre “piéces” or barrels, each containing the equi...

November, 03, 2013 Climate Change Report Predicts Warming Will Only Make Human Ills Worse

(Huffingtonpost) - Many of the ills of the modern world — starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease — are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts. The report uses ...

November, 03, 2013 Plastic tanks catch on in wine industry

(PD) -Like many winemakers, Mitch Black scrambled to find a place to store his wine last year when the largest grape crop in California history unleashed a flood of wine. Companies that make wooden barrels and steel tanks couldn't churn them out them fast enough to meet demand from wineries and ...

November, 03, 2013 The Argentinian wine boom has been an impressive story

(Teatronaturale) - A growing demand for wines at higher price points saw Argentinian exports take off from the early 2000s. However, in 2012 export volumes of Argentinian still bottled wine began to contract, unveiling the challenges the sector is currently facing. According to Rabobank's Wine...

November, 03, 2013 Sonoma County: Serving up some wine and song

(PD) - It's not necessarily a shock when a wine server at a winery tasting room leads visitors in a round of “Happy Birthday” on request. But no one at the Meadowcroft Wines tasting room at Sonoma's Cornerstone complex was expecting the classically trained bass-baritone singing voice...