August, 23, 2013 How To Sound Like A Wine Expert In 9 Basic Steps

(BusinessInsider) - There's a lot more to becoming a wine expert than tossing back a glass now and then. You've got to know the vocab — tannin, bouquet, terroir, aroma — not to mention how to hold a glass, recognize flavors, and know when to drink it. Luckily, London-based co...

August, 23, 2013 When A New Technology Saved The French Wine Industry

(Science20) -  Amy Harmon's  excellent, recent article in the New York Time s describes how the Florida orange juice industry may soon be wiped-out because of a new bacterial disease spread by an introduced insect.  It looks like there could be a technology-fix for the problem usin...

August, 23, 2013 Winemaking: Yeast Nutrition Vital for Wine Fermentation

(Wines&Vines) - They are some of the questions that can keep a winemaker up at night during harvest. • Is that tank starting to smell a bit funky? • That lot was at 10º Brix yesterday and it was still there this afternoon, are things stalling? • We inoculated those ...

August, 23, 2013 Utah ranked dead last in wine friendly states report

(Sltrib) - Utah ranked dead last among the least wine-friendly states in the nation while California received an A-plus rating as the most consumer-friendly in a report from the Washington, D.C.-based American Wine Consumer Coalition. "Utah wine consumers labor under the most restrictive laws in...

August, 23, 2013 Connecticut Blooms With Wine

(WSJ) - The three years it took Congress to pass the country's health-care reform bill may have seemed never-ending, but it was nothing compared to the decades that Bob Heffernan, executive director of the Connecticut Florists Association, waited for his state to permit florists to sell wine with f...

August, 23, 2013 NAPA VALLEY VINTNERS TAKE TO THE OPEN SEAS

(TheDrinksBusiness) - Fifty Napa Valley Vintners lined the top deck of a US WWII ship used in the Normandy invasion this past week in an event organised around the Louis Vuitton Cup finals of the 34th America’s Cup. There was no race scheduled during the tasting event, so trade and me...

August, 23, 2013 Italian archaeologists have grape expectations of their ancient wine

(TheGuardian) - Archeologists in Italy have set about making red wine exactly as the ancient Romans did, to see what it tastes like. Based at the  University of Catania  in Sicily and supported by Italy's national research centre, a team has planted a vineyard ...

August, 22, 2013 Wine Retailer NakedWines.com Savors $10 Million In New Funding

(TechChrunch) - NakedWines.com , the customer-funded online wine retailer, has raised $10 million in a third round of investment from WIV Wein International AG, a German group of direct wine-selling companies and founder shareholder. NakedWines.com will use its new funding to accelerate the compan...