October, 03, 2013 Napa County Rejects Winery Project

(Wines&Vines) - A proposed winery project of the type springing up in wine regions from Santa Barbara, Calif., to Washington state was soundly rejected by the Napa County Planning Commission on Wednesday, even while they acknowledged that it would be welcomed at another site. Members even ch...

October, 03, 2013 California's Sonoma county emerges as a premium wine-growing region

(SCMP) - It is unlikely that the first Europeans to reach California had complex, layered and characterful pinot noirs from small, boutique wineries on their minds. But some of the early settlers' frontier spirit remains in Sonoma county, the larger, more geographically diverse wine-producing c...

October, 03, 2013 Claude Taittinger’s daughter goes solo in Champagne

(Decanter) - Virginie Taittinger, once the 'princess' of her family's Champagne dynasty, has returned to the scene with her own cuvee. The daughter of Claude Taittinger has 800 private customers in Western Europe signed up to her direct delivery service for ‘Virginie T’ non-vint...

October, 03, 2013 Caymus Vineyards Matriarch Lorna Belle Glos Wagner Dies at 97

(WineSpectator) - Lorna Belle Glos Wagner, the strong family matriarch who worked behind the scenes as she, her husband, Charlie Wagner, and their son Chuck founded Caymus Vineyards and helped put Napa Cabernet on the map, died Oct. 2. She was 97. Lorna Belle was never in the limelight. Sh...

October, 03, 2013 Large co-op winery proposed for 11-acre site south of Calistoga

(PD) - Napa County planners will consider a proposal Wednesday to build a winery complex south of Calistoga that could be home to as many as 14 producers making up to 300,000 gallons per year. A St. Helena company wants to turn the 11-acre site, now home to a barrel storage warehouse and a P...

October, 03, 2013 US: Oregon wine industry keeps on growing

(CapitalPress) - Oregon wine industry's economic impact continues to grow. An economic snapshot of Oregon agriculture shows the usual heavyweights at the top of the list: Cattle and calves, greenhouse and nursery products, and stalwarts such as hay, milk and wheat. Wine grapes? They&rsqu...

October, 02, 2013 Port Winemakers Can Now Use Lower-Quality Brandy

(WineSpectator) - A new law allows cheaper brandy for fortification; producers react with caution. Port is fortified wine, which means winemakers add distilled alcohol to arrest fermentation, leaving behind residual sugars and adding complexity. A new law is changing what kind of alcohol th...

October, 02, 2013 Altered wine chemical helps kills cancer

(ScienceNews) - Modified forms of the red wine compound resveratrol slip into human tissue and can help kill cancer cells,  according to a study  in the Oct. 2  Science Translational Medicine . The finding may explain why the unmodified form of resveratrol, which in lab experime...