March, 29, 2018 Popular Beer and Wine Brands Contaminated With Monsanto's Weedkiller, Tests Reveal

(EcoWatch) - The past few years have revealed some disturbing news for the alcohol industry. In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for high levels of inorganic arsenic . In 2016, beer testing in Germany also revealed residues of glyphosate in every singl...

March, 29, 2018 Bordeaux Prosecutors Accuse Margaux Third-Growth of Illegal Chaptalization, but Winery Blames French Bureaucracy

(WineSpectator) - Château Giscours is accused of illegally adding sugar to a vat of 2016 Merlot, but the local syndicate had granted permission. Margaux third-growth Château Giscours will square off with Bordeaux's prosecutor in the city's criminal tribunal in June over charges of ...

March, 27, 2018 State, Traveling Wine Company Battle Over Liquor Sales

(AP) — The  Wyoming  Department of Revenue Liquor Division and an out-of-state company marketing wine through at-home tastings are in a legal battle over perceived liquor sales. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports  Massachusetts -based Traveling Vineyard sells wine an...

March, 27, 2018 ARGENTINA’S O FOURNIER ESTATE SOLD TO FINCA AGOSTINO

(TDB) - Argentina’s O Fournier winery, founded by the Ortega Gil Fournier family in 2000 and known for its striking circular stainless architecture, has been sold to the Agostino winemaking family for an undisclosed sum. The sale includes the winery, vineyard and O Fournier brand, which wi...

March, 27, 2018 Third Somm film has all-star cast, says director

(Decanter) - A third ‘Somm’ film is in production and features an all-star cast of wine’s most respected figures, including Steven Spurrier, the man responsible for staging the 1976 Judgement of Paris and a long-serving Decanter consultant editor. Respected wine critic Jancis Robi...

March, 27, 2018 Black wine is here to turn out the lights on your rosé party

(NHRegister) - Name all the colors of wine, and you'll start with the obvious ones: red, white and pink, or rosé. Maybe you know about orange wine, or vinho verde - "green wine" from Portugal that's technically a white, but we'll let it slide. There's even blue wine (we taste-tested it; it w...

March, 27, 2018 Bulletproof, Slow and Full of Wine: Kim Jong-un’s Mystery Train

(NYTimes) - The mysterious train that pulled into  Beijing’s central train station  on Monday night is now known to have been carrying Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, who arrived in the capital for secret talks with his Chinese counterpart. The train spotted in Beijing &...

March, 26, 2018 TTB Targets Consignment Wine Sales

(Wine-Searcher) - How and when a wine can be returned by a retailer is now under question. The United States' three-tier system – which was put in place upon the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 – has long legislated wine sales without seeming to always have a consistent coherent policy...