January, 24, 2013 US: National Rifle Association starts wine club

(Decanter) - Wine enthusiasts can now indulge their passion and back the right to bear arms at the same time by joining the National Rifle Association of America's Wine Club. ‘Now you can support the 2nd Amendment with every wine you buy’ runs the strapline on the homepage of the club, nrawin...

January, 24, 2013 Craft beer becoming alternative to wine at the dinner table

(FoxNews) - Now with over 2,000 breweries operating across the country that produce a wide variety of beer – more people are choosing a craft beer while enjoying a nice meal --over a bottle of wine or a mixed cocktail. In the mood for a steak? Instead of a Cabernet Sauvignon for your rib eye, t...

January, 24, 2013 TastingRoom.com Partners with Lot18

(Wines&Vines) - TastingRoom.com, the online retailer that employs patented technology to give consumers taste-size bottles of wine, has entered into a marketing partnership with flash wine seller Lot18. The Santa Rosa, Calif., based TastingRoom.com is closing its own online retail operation and will...

January, 24, 2013 US consumers 'confused' by multiple Sonoma AVAs

(Decanter) - Sonoma Valley has announced the launch of a new campaign to differentiate the region from the larger Sonoma Coast and even larger Sonoma County AVA. 'Is it a town? A county?': confusion over Sonoma AVAs There is confusion in the marketplace regarding the differences between the many ...

January, 24, 2013 Urban development threatens Dante’s wine region

(TheDrinksBusiness) - A winemaking descendant of the poet Dante Alighieri is urging the local government of Veneto to tighten planning laws to protect Valpolicella from urban sprawl. Count Pieralvise Serego Alighieri, the owner of Serego Alighieri, has said that the combination of lax planning re...

January, 24, 2013 $2M wine collection bottled up

(NYPost) - Release the Rieslings! A star restaurateur’s $2 million wine collection is locked up in a Manhattan storage facility damaged by Hurricane Sandy, according to a new lawsuit. Keith McNally, owner of Manhattan bistros Minetta Tavern and Morandi, “first requested, then demanded the ret...

January, 24, 2013 Onishchenko to Visit Georgia to Discuss Resuming Wine, Water Imports

(TheMoscowTimes) - Gennady Onishchenko, Russia's chief sanitary official and the head of the Federal Consumer Protection Service, has announced plans to visit Georgia to discuss resuming supplies of Georgian wine and mineral water to the Russian market, Interfax reported Thursday. He said he plan...

January, 23, 2013 ARE WINE CRITICS IMMUNE TO SUBJECTIVITY?

(Seattlepi) - I had an interesting conversation with Joe Roberts (1Winedude) on Twitter about how we as wine critics approach rating a wine. What started the interaction was a statement I made on Twitter about switching from the 100 point scoring system for wine to the A-F grading system that Joe cu...