February, 27, 2013 Why Wine Causes Headaches (and How to Avoid Them)

(LifeHacker) - If you avoid wine—specifically red wine—because you know it'll make your head hurt something serious not too long after the first glass, the reason may be simpler than you think, and the solution may already be in your medicine cabinet, if not at your corner convenience store. Her...

February, 27, 2013 DRINKERS SUE AB INBEV FOR ‘WATERING DOWN’ BEER

(TheDrinksBusiness) - US drinkers are attempting to take the brewing powerhouse AB InBev to court for “watering down” its beers. Lawsuits totalling US$5 million (£3.3m) have been filed in Pennsylvania and California among other states, with drinkers saying that the alcoholic strength on the ...

February, 27, 2013 US:$24.5 million deal to protect 20,000-acre Sonoma County forest

(PressDemocrat) - A national conservation group has reached an agreement to buy nearly 20,000 acres of timberland in northwestern Sonoma County, a move that derails the long-disputed, forest-to-vineyards conversion project pushed by CalPERS, the giant state workers pension fund. The $24.5 million pu...

February, 27, 2013 The horrific cruelty of China's tiger farms revealed – where animals are turned into wine

(Express) - China is allowing the sale of captive-bred tiger skins and body parts – flouting a UN agreement which calls for such trade to be banned, according to an environmental lobby group. Huddled in filthy cages and starved to the extent their fur is hanging off their jutting bones, these once...

February, 27, 2013 Fine wine market in 'recovery mode'

(Decanter) - A series of successful auctions and improved fine wine pricing shows that investors are regaining their thirst for top Bordeaux. The Liv-ex 50 fine wine index, which tracks the last ten physical vintages of the five Bordeaux first-growths, is up by around 10% since November last year. ...

February, 27, 2013 Russian Wine Inspectors May Withdraw Over Saakashvili Remarks

(RFERL) - The Russian consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor may withdraw its inspectors from Georgia because of the Georgian president's statements criticizing their work. Rospotrebnadzor experts are inspecting Georgian companies that want to resume wine exports to Russia. Rospotrebnadzo...

February, 26, 2013 A Tale of Two Lawsuits

(Wines&Vines) - Like many states east of the Rockies, Virginia has experienced tremendous growth in the number of wineries operating within the state during the past 30 years. In 1980 there were approximately 20 wineries in Virginia, and today the count is 220, according to WinesVinesDATA; additiona...

February, 26, 2013 The curious rise and fall of Algeria’s once-massive wine industry

Here’s a dinner-party brainteaser: Name the world’s largest wine exporter in the 1950s. France? Italy? Argentina? Australia? How about none of the above? You’d be on the wrong continent with any of those responses. It was Algeria. For much of the past century, the north African country was ...