May, 20, 2013 US: Local Businesses Growing With Gen D (Generation Delivery)

(HuffingtonPost) - Today's get it now society wants more than just a cool phone with instant access to news, friends and family - they want dinner served up too. Mealtime planning has shifted with the generations. In the 1950s, TV dinners became the convenient meal while takeout gained tracti...

May, 20, 2013 US: Restaurant industry fear as harsh drink-driving laws proposed

(SmartPlanet) - Could new drink-driving laws destroy the restaurant industry? Under new proposals outlined by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, drivers returning from wining and dining could be pulled over. The board wants to impose harsher restrictions for anyone consuming alcoh...

May, 20, 2013 Decanter World Wine Awards 2013 winners announced

(Decanter) - Judges at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards tasted a record-breaking 14,362 wines and awarded nearly 10,000 medals, it was announced this morning. The Decanter World Wine Awards launched in 2004 with just over 4,000 wines, and is now celebrating its tenth anniversary...

May, 20, 2013 France Mulls 'Behavioral' Tax On Wine

(LowTax) - A French Senate Committee is currently examining the idea of whether or not to introduce a dissuasive or "behavioral" tax on wine. Yet the idea of imposing a new tax on wine has provoked outrage among many Socialist Senators, who highlighted the fact that the consumption of wine...

May, 20, 2013 To join EU, Croatia may give up its wine

(AAP) - Does Croatia's Prosek jeopardise Italy's Prosecco? Croatia is gearing up to celebrate its entry into the Europen Union (EU), but don't pop the corks just yet. A heated trademark battle over the country's beloved sweet dessert wine has some feeling less than bubbly, mirroring rapidly ...

May, 20, 2013 LIWF 2013 - UK: Wine grabs off-trade shelf space share from beer, cider

(Just-Drinks) - Wine's share of space on UK supermarket shelves has grown in the last year at the expense of beer and cider, according to an industry analyst.  Speaking at the London International Wine Fair (LIWF) today (20 May), Helen Stares of Nielsen said that space for wine had been ...

May, 19, 2013 Canada: Quebec’s 30-year-old wine industry is finally growing

(Macleans) - Since 1997, Anthony Carone has coaxed pinot noir from the ground in Lanoraie, Que., a place wholly unsuited to the notoriously temperamental grape. Every November, he prunes all but four of the winery’s 4,000 vines down to stubs. He pins the remaining four, which he selects fo...

May, 19, 2013 US-NY: The birth of Canandaigua Industries

(MPNNow) - At the close of World War II, a former sauerkraut factory turned winery became the home for Canandaigua Industries. The old San Gabriel Wine Company on Buffalo Street was acquired by the Sands family in 1945 and Marvin Sands became its president. Marvin Sands learned about the wine ...