June, 27, 2018 ‘Last bottles’ from Henri Jayer cellar sold for $35 million – auction house

(Decanter) - Strong competition from bidders around the world saw the Geneva auction achieve more than double its pre-sale estimate, according to organiser Baghera Wines. Around 100 bidders took part in the Henri Jayer cellar auction, held on 17 June at Domaine de Châteauvieux in Geneva, sai...

June, 27, 2018 Supreme Court Confirms Online Wine Tax

(Wine Searcher) -  legal tax loophole on out-of-state wine purchases has been closed, Liza B. Zimmerman reports. Wine sales have been somewhat of a laissez-faire business in the US for some decades – some retailers charged taxes on out-of-state purchases while others elected not to do...

June, 25, 2018 Lower Risk with Winery Lot Traceability

(Wines&Vines) - Here's What Works: Setting up a system for quality assurance from bottling to distribution San Rafael, Calif.—You bottled 1,000 cases of 2016 Chardonnay over two days. Near the end of the run, your sterile filter plugs, with about 80 cases left to bottle. You grumble ab...

June, 25, 2018 Johnny Depp spent ‘far more’ than $30K on wine

(TDB) - In a bizarre, illuminating interview with Rolling Stone, troubled actor Johnny Depp admitted to spending “far more” than $30,000 on wine, as had been previously reported. During a red wine-fuelled, 72-hour interview with Rolling Stone, which ran with the headline: ‘The ...

June, 25, 2018 So Long, Marianne

(Wine Searcher) - Will dropping the personification of France from wine capsules make fraud easier? The head of Marianne, the national symbol of the French republic, will no longer have to adorn the caps of French wine bottles following a decree published earlier this month. According to the ...

June, 24, 2018 The 'junket' that saved Napa Valley's wine industry

(NVR) - For years, members of Napa’s wine industry and local government officials have gone abroad to see and hear what the rest of the wine world is up to, bringing back what they learn and, as they tell it, occasionally saving the valley from catastrophe. Since the early 2000&rsq...

June, 24, 2018 Bruce Cohn's Second Wine Act

(Wines&Vines) - After selling winery in Sonoma, Cohn launches new brand from remaining vineyard Glen Ellen, Calif.—Bruce Cohn is no stranger to the wine country scene and his name is known to both wine and music lovers across the country. The founder of B.R. Cohn Winery in Sonoma Valle...

June, 24, 2018 First Pinotage vineyard planted in the UK

(TDB) - Members of the wine trade and press gathered at Leonardslee Gardens in West Sussex for the planting of the first Pinotage vineyard in the UK yesterday, a nod to owner Penny Streeter OBE and the Benguela Collection’s South African connections. Streeter, a Zimbabwe-born British/South...