July, 01, 2013 Consider the Wine Glass

(TheAtlantic) - A wine glass is hard to hold and easy to break. And that's what makes it great. The wine glass is almost ridiculously impractical. It is fabricated, generally speaking, of thin glass. It is designed, generally speaking, as a bowl suspended on a spindly stem. It is easily breakabl...

July, 01, 2013 US: Pa. senators win key vote on wine, liquor bill

(TimesHerald) - Republican state senators won a key vote early Saturday morning on a provision to allow private store sales of wine and liquor in Pennsylvania after GOP leaders spent hours through the night seeking enough support to break the state’s Depression-era control of the goods. R...

June, 29, 2013 UK: Tesco Redefines Social Drinking With Community-Created Wine

(AdAge) -  Wine’s reputation as a social drink is being taken literally by Tesco, the U.K.’s biggest supermarket chain, which is launching a “socially created” wine selected and designed by Tesco’s social-media community. The wine, which will be made with...

June, 28, 2013 AUS: Wine industry mourns Peter Lehmann

(TheShout) - Barossa Valley legend Peter Lehmann has been remembered as a larrikin, a shrewd businessman and a winemaker who put the interests of grapegrowers above his own. Lehmann suffered from kidney disease and died today in hospital in Adelaide, according to reports. He was aged 82. Lehm...

June, 28, 2013 Anti-dumping probe welcomed by Chinese producers

(TheDrinksBusiness) - China’s anti-dumping investigation into EU wine exports has been welcomed by Chinese producers, who see it as an opportunity to further expand sales in their domestic market. On 5 June, as previously reported by the drinks business, China announced that it was to laun...

June, 28, 2013 Jackson Family's Chris Carpenter works on his first Australian wine

(Decanter) - Jackson Family Wines winemaker Chris Carpenter is preparing to blend the first wine from the company’s latest McLaren Vale acquisition. The California producer bought the renowned Clarendon Estate Vineyards – supplier of grapes to Penfolds Grange and Eileen Hardy S...

June, 28, 2013 US: Thoughts on the proposed new Eagle Peak appellation

(SteveHeimoff) - I always have mixed feelings about AVAs. Are they helpful or hurtful? To what? You ask. To our understanding of terroir, of the sense of place they purport to convey. Of course, an AVA does nothing of the sort. Its appearance on the label guarantees only the geographic origin...

June, 28, 2013 US: Senate, 68 to 32, Passes Overhaul for Immigration

(NYTimes) - The Senate on Thursday approved the most significant overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws in a generation with broad support generated by a sense among leading Republicans that the party needed to join with Democrats to remove a wedge between Republicans and Hispanic voter...