February, 06, 2013 China will import less over the next four years: Vinexpo research

(Decanter) - China will import wine at a slower pace as the country's domestic wine production increases - while the world's most populous nation is set to become the world’s second-biggest wine consumer by 2016. Competition for space in China's wine market is set to intensify in the next few year...

February, 05, 2013 Green tea and red wine extracts interrupt Alzheimer's disease pathway in cells

(MedicalXpress) - In early-stage laboratory experiments, the researchers identified the process which allows harmful clumps of protein to latch on to brain cells, causing them to die. They were able to interrupt this pathway using the purified extracts of EGCG from green tea and resveratrol from red...

February, 05, 2013 AUS: Cheap supermarket imports blamed for decline in cask wine

(ABC) - Cheaper imports of bottled wine from countries like New Zealand are being blamed for a decline in Australian cask wine sales. Managing director of Kingston Estate Wines, Bill Moularadellis, says the major cause is bulk purchasing of wine by big Australian retailers like Woolworths and Co...

February, 05, 2013 US: Pa. committee OKs direct wine shipments

(WHTM) - Wineries would be permitted to ship wine directly to Pennsylvania consumers under legislation voted out of the House Liquor Control Committee on Tuesday. House Bill 121 would allow both in-state and out-of-state wineries to ship their products directly to consumers, as long as the wineri...

February, 05, 2013 The world’s top 10 most powerful fine wines

(TheDrinksBusiness) - Once more, the drinks business has engaged Liv-ex – the global marketplace for the fine wine trade – to assess the world’s most powerful fine wine brands. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s power cements the notion that Burgundies are the new darling of the fine wine tra...

February, 05, 2013 French top UK government wine sales

(BBCNews) - French wines have proved to be most popular for purchases from the UK government's cellars over the past year, a foreign office minister says. Mark Simmonds told MPs in a written ministerial statement that English wines were the second most popular. Sales of stock totalled £44,000...

February, 04, 2013 North American Winery Total Passes 8,000

(Wines&Vines) - More than 8,000 wineries now produce wine in North America according to Wines & Vines, which released the latest data at the 2013 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium. Surprisingly, fewer than half the wineries are in California, reflecting the explosion of wineries throughout the other st...

February, 04, 2013 MOTÖRHEAD RELEASES BAG-IN-BOX SHIRAZ

(TheDrinksBusiness) - British heavy metal group Motörhead has released a bag-in-box Shiraz modelled to look like a guitar amplifier. Motörhead Sacrifice Shiraz, the first bag-in-box wine to be produced by a band, has been designed specifically to appeal to the BIB-friendly Swedish market. “A...