June, 01, 2017 Anson: What it costs to buy a Bordeaux château

(Decanter) - Fancy your chances as the next owner of a classified growth, or would you rather build from the bottom in Fronsac? Jane Anson has the latest vineyard prices across Bordeaux appellations.  It’s that time of year, when the French land agency SAFER releases its updated price...

June, 01, 2017 Washington State Eyes New Roadmap for Research

(WinesandVines) - Washington’s wine industry selected 18 viticulture and enology projects for funding this year, an agenda that cracked $1 million for the first time. Chosen by the Washington State Wine Commission’s wine research advisory committee, the projects represent a range of top...

June, 01, 2017 Psst! Wanna Buy a Winery?

(Wine-Searcher) - Unsuccessful winery seeks new owners; WLTM financially secure suitor with big ideas. Here's an unusual auction item. How would you like to be a millionaire winery owner, like the Trump family? It's all yours for less than $20 million. Burbank Ranch, a nine-year-old w...

June, 01, 2017 Whole Foods Launches 'Sommelier Selects' Wine Program

(PG) - Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market has launched its Sommelier Selects program, which features wines curated for the season by its master sommelier, Devon Broglie. Beginning with bottles for summer, Broglie picked each wine to pair exceptionally well with the flavors of the season and ...

June, 01, 2017 This Wine Hack Will Chill Your Drink Instantly, Without Ice Cubes

(Cosmopolitan) - You've organized your garden party to perfection, with delicious food, a lovely setting, and lots of friends. There's only one thing that could leave a less satisfied taste in the mouth — a sip of warm wine. What do you do? If you add ice cubes, then the  wine  w...

June, 01, 2017 Why the 'house' wine isn't always the cheapest on the menu

(YahooStyle) - If you walk into a pub or restaurant that looks a little above your means, if in doubt order the house wine, right? Because it’s a cheapest by definition, right? Wrong – apparently, it has little to do with price, and is simply what the establishment recommends. ...

June, 01, 2017 Good news for New York: Millennials can't stop drinking wine

(Timesunion) - The miles of grape fields that once flanked the Hudson River are slowly returning, bringing with them wine and, hopefully, the millennials who can’t stop guzzling it.  In the last decade eastern New York has quietly turned into a significant hub for grape and wine produ...

May, 30, 2017 Downy Mildew in California Vineyards

(Wines&Vines) - The  welcome end of a four-year drought brought one unexpected hardship to some California wine grape vineyards: downy mildew. Veteran extension viticulturists said the pathogen is a rarity in the Golden State and blamed its emergence on uncommon rates of humidity due to al...