June, 11, 2018 Pinot Noir Icon Kosta Browne Winery Launches a Tasting Experience

(Food&Wines) - At any given time, roughly 30,000 members are awaiting the release of the popular appellation wines or access to highly limited, single vineyard wines. But the infamous winery has just unveiled a loophole.  Kosta Browne is one of the biggest names in California Pinot Noir...

June, 11, 2018 Culinary Evening with California Winemasters Raises $1.7 million for Cystic Fibrosis

( WineSpectator) - With more than 780 auction lots, the 29th annual event reached new heights  Some of the world’s greatest performers have graced the sets at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif. But for the 1,400 attendees at the 29th annual Culinary Evening with the California Wi...

June, 11, 2018 ASEV East to meet in Pennsylvania

Enology and viticulture meeting takes place July 9 to 11, includes tour of area wineries   (Wines&Vines) - King of Prussia, Pa.—After meeting last year in Thomas Jefferson’s home town, Charlottesville, Va., this July the Eastern Section of the American Society for Enol...

June, 11, 2018 Storing wine on its side is nonsense, says scientist

(TDB) - Storing wine on its side won’t prevent corks drying out, and may even accelerate their degeneration, according to Amorim’s director of R&D, Dr. Miguel Cabral. During a discussion in Portugal last week, Cabral said that the headspace of a sealed bottle of wine was so moist...

June, 11, 2018 Argentina 2018 vintage: Good news for producers with a return to ‘normality’

(Decanter) - Winemakers in Argentina are celebrating the end of a productive vintage which is refreshingly ‘normal’... ‘This harvest has been very traditional,’ said Walter Bressia, President of Bodegas de Argentina. ‘ There weren’t rains, the day temperatu...

June, 10, 2018 Wine Fraud's Final Journey

( Wine-Searcher) - Hardy Rodenstock has died, but W. Blake Gray suggests someone should check the contents of his coffin. Hardy Rodenstock died as he lived: in the shadows, with news of his passing at age 76 from a long illness not seeping out of the small German town of Oberaudorf for nearly th...

June, 10, 2018 Full Slate for Wine Packaging Conference

(Wines&Vines) - Randall Grahm to keynote annual conference focused on all aspects of wine packaging Napa, Calif.—His wines have always been packaged with a slightly irreverent style, most brands came with visually arresting labels and perhaps most notably in 2002 vintner Randall Grahm ...

June, 10, 2018 Molson Coors acquires Californian kombucha brand

(TDB) - US brewer Molson Coors has strengthened its position in the non-alcoholic drinks market with the acquisition of California’s Clearly Kombucha, which produces a range of organic, gluten-free, vegan and kosher fermented tea beverages. Clearly Kombucha will become part of the Molson C...