December, 05, 2012 Move over, Sideways

(ScreenDaily) - There’s added incentive to check out French movie You Will Be My Son (Tu Seras Mon Fils) in cinemas this weekend. Every filmgoer (over the age of 18) in England will receive a free glass of Closerie de Fourtet 2007 (worth over £50 a bottle); in Ireland they’ll get a free glass o...

December, 05, 2012 Where did our chateau go? French village loses its landmark

(Guardian) - The mayor of a small wine-making village near Bordeaux has taken legal action after a picturesque 18th-century chateau mysteriously disappeared. Residents of Yvrac were baffled to find that the vast Bellevue chateau, with ornate stone balustrades and 13,000 square metres of rooms sur...

December, 05, 2012 Wine.com doubles its Thanksgiving weekend mobile sales

(InternetRetailer) - A lot of mobile shoppers were making merry with wine on Thanksgiving weekend. Mobile commerce sales were up 100% year over year for the weekend at e-retailer Wine.com Inc., and 22% of total sales for the period ranging from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday came through Wine...

December, 05, 2012 Millionaire former winery owner murdered in Silicon Valley

(Decanter) - Police are hunting a gang of intruders after a multi-millionaire former California winery owner was found dead in his luxury mansion in Silicon Valley. Venture capitalist Raveesh ‘Ravi’ Kumra (pictured), 66, was killed at his 7,000sq ft home in Monte Sereno last Friday – the firs...

December, 05, 2012 Canada: Wine producers lobby for private stores in Ontario

(TheGlobeandMail) - They are legal in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Nova Scotia. They are legal in most jurisdictions around the world where beverage alcohol is commonly consumed. But private, independent wine stores remain an elusive dream in Ontario, the country’s most po...

December, 04, 2012 Raiders Mysteriously Pour $15.7 Million Worth Of Tuscan Wine Into The Ground

(BusinessInsider) - Skulduggery amid the gently rolling vineyards of Tuscany has sent at least £10 million worth of one of Italy’s most celebrated red wines gurgling down the drain. Saboteurs broke into the cellars of the Case Basse winery in the middle of the night, turned on the taps of the gi...

December, 04, 2012 Wine compound may halt bowel cancer

(YorkPress) - One large glass of wine a day could contain enough of a tumour-fighting compound to prevent bowel cancer, research has suggested. The plant chemical, resveratrol, is found in the skins of grapes and concentrated in red wine. Scientists have long known that resveratrol has anti-canc...

December, 04, 2012 Lessons From a Wine Entrepreneur

(Wines&Vines) - Peter Byck, co-founder, president and CEO of Winery Exchange, a full-service provider of private-label wine, beer and spirit brands for retailers, told an audience of students, faculty and wine industry professionals at the University of California, Davis (UCD), last week that privat...