March, 30, 2013 Wine: Easter Celebrations

(IrishTimes) - Lamb is one of my favourite foods to have with wine; that mild but distinctive flavour and that succulent, juicy texture seem to provide the perfect backdrop to just about any red wine. Two grapes seem to work particularly well; Cabernet Sauvignon with its tannic structure and dry fi...

March, 29, 2013 Auction of record-breaking HK$590,400 wine helps revive flagging market

(SCMP) - The wine market revived a little this month at an Acker Merrall & Condit auction in Hong Kong, but it still has a long way to go before revisiting its peak of two years ago. The sale by the American auction house, on March 22 and 23, set 97 records, including four for Chateau Petrus, a...

March, 29, 2013 UK: How Laithwaites turns wine into gold

(Telegraph) - Charles Vallance and David Hopper meet a man who has made his fortune, and a company employing over 1,000 people, from his lifelong passion. Were you to bump into Tony Laithwaite at the post office or at an airport check-in you would probably guess that he is a wine maker; p...

March, 29, 2013 Conserving Water with Vineyard Sensors

(Wines&Vines) - Using irrigation in the vineyard is less about ensuring growth and more about applying the right amount of water at the right time. The same could be said about water conservation in general. At a recent water conservation workshop organized by staff from Napa County F...

March, 29, 2013 Five Wine Blogs I Really Click With

(WSJ) - I SPENT THE BETTER part of last week doing something that relatively few wine drinkers probably do: reading wine blogs. Not just a handful of blogs here and there but hundreds and hundreds of wine blogs from all over the world. I read until I was absolutely blog-bleary; I probably tota...

March, 29, 2013 Big jump in number of Iowa vineyards

(AP) — Statistics show a big jump in the number of vineyards in Iowa, though the industry remains small compared with states such as California.In 2000, Iowa had only five vineyards that covered about 15 acres. Iowa State University Extension viticulture specialist Mike White said that's now ...

March, 29, 2013 Wine in reusable growlers? Ore. Senate says cheers

(AP) — Fans of Oregon craft beer can bring a reusable container known as a "growler" to their local brewery and fill up, and the Oregon wine industry wants in on that kind of trade. The state Senate raised a glass to the idea Thursday, voting unanimously to let wineries, restaurants, grocery ...

March, 28, 2013 How Good Is a $30,000 Bottle of Wine?

(Slate) - Testimony began this week in billionaire William Koch’s lawsuit against Eric Greenberg, who Koch claims sold him some very expensive counterfeit wine. (Mike Steinberger wrote a detailed investigation of the case for Slate in 2010.) Some of the bottles went for nearly $30,000, w...