December, 18, 2012 Grapes of wrath: Italian arrested over £10 million Tuscan wine sabotage

(Telegraph) - Italian police have arrested a man on suspicion of sabotaging an acclaimed vineyard in Tuscany by emptying around £10 million pound worth of top quality red wine onto the floor as part of an apparent vendetta against the owners. The owners of the Case Basse winery were left devasta...

December, 17, 2012 AUS: Winemaker to harvest in the nude

(UPI) -- In an effort to revive an ancient ritual, an Australian winemaker says he plans on harvesting some of his grapes during a full moon -- in the nude. Mike Hayes, of Queensland, has been studying 4,000-year-old wine-making techniques as part of a Churchill Fellowship, The (Brisbane) Sunday Ma...

December, 17, 2012 High Level Group on Wine presented its final conclusions

(NEurope) - The final meeting of the High Level Group on Wine planting rights was on Friday, 14 December. Industry representatives from 27 Member States, observersfrom the Council, from the European Parliament and from Croatia and Commission’s experts conducted a report accompanied by conclusions....

December, 17, 2012 Beer/wine hybrid drink tested in Coors Field

(ESPN) - The Sandlot, a microbrewery inside Coors Field, is where Blue Moon was conceptualized. In 1995, Keith Villa had just returned from the University of Brussels having earned his doctorate in beer brewing, when he began working on a Belgian beer that would become Blue Moon. Blue Moon's story...

December, 17, 2012 Hopes stir for Russia-Georgia export ban thaw

(Decanter) - Two developments the past week have stirred hopes for Georgia's wine producers, who have been banned from exporting to Russia for more than six years. Russia banned imports of Georgian wine in 2006 after its military conflict with the former Soviet state, citing poor quality as the re...

December, 17, 2012 China 'driving global wine market'

(BBC) - Hong Kong's wine auction market is becoming more sophisticated, with local buyers more knowledgeable about the wine itself, and how to buy it. "It's a healthier and more discerning market [now]," Robert Sleigh from Sotheby's tells the BBC....

December, 17, 2012 Italy’s Antinori Sisters Prepare To Run A Wine Empire

(Thedailybeast) - When Italian winemaker Piero Antinori’s third child happened to also be his third daughter, he had to rethink a 600-year-old tradition of men running the family business. “He thought to himself, that’s life,” says 46-year-old Albiera Antinori, now the company’s vice presi...

December, 17, 2012 Wine seller Accolade celebrates turnover close to £1bn

(Thisismoney) - Accolade Wines, the biggest seller of wine in Britain with brands such as Hardys, Babycham and Christmas favourite Stone’s Green Ginger, recorded sales of nearly £1 billion in the first full year after being sold by US drinks giant Constellation Brands. ...