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16 ways to politely insult your friend's homemade wine

I received a question recently from a reader who must remain nameless. I think you can appreciate the witness-protection imperative when you read the e-mail: “Many of my friends make their own wine and I need a list of euphemistic a [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2013 | Comments : 0

Michigan Beer, Food and Wine Fest coming to Perani Arena Nov...

BURTON, MI -- The inaugural Michigan Food, Wine and Beer Fest will take place at Perani Arena Nov. 10 from 3-9 p.m. According to the event's website, there will be more than 130 kinds of beer and more than 60 kinds of wine. Despi [...]

Posted On : Nov, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

2012 Oregon wine grape harvest reflects one of the driest gr...

Following two of the coolest vintages on record, Oregon winemakers are now struggling to cope with one of the driest. Gone are worries about low sugar levels and worrisome prospects of entire vineyards never fully ripening because of the [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

London 2012: The Olympic wine carrying a torch for the Games

They're coming to watch athletes squelch their way across waterlogged track and sodden pitch. So it won't have occurred to Olympic ticketholders to consider the quality of the wine on sale. But this drenched summer, they might jus [...]

Posted On : Jul, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Grange war: first $1 milk, now $600 wine

The heated supermarket wars have spilt over into the sale of Australia's most prestigious and luxurious wine, Penfolds Grange, with bottle shops owned by Coles and Woolworths, and new player Costco, jostling to offer the lowest price [...]

Posted On : May, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

House Band Wines Launching 375ml Single-Serve Flex Pouch at ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--House Band Wines will launch its first-ever 375ml single-serve flex wine pouch at spring and summer music festivals in the U.S. beginning this month in Austin, Texas. The upstart brand sees [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Wine sales robust in 2011, may drop more in 2012

It was a good year for fine wine in 2011 with auction houses reporting solid sales but the bubble has burst in the Bordeaux market and prices are expected to fall further in 2012. Wine sales at auction house Acker Merrall & Condit topp [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Lady Gaga Dress, Chinese Penis Potion Mark Wine World in 201...

No aspect of popular culture achieves real acceptance until it’s been incorporated into one of Lady Gaga’s outfits, so I was gratified to see her decked out as a wine bottle with cork hat and wineglass gloves on Saturday Night [...]

Posted On : Dec, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Twelve year olds drinking equivalent 19 glasses of wine a we...

A survey by the Schools Health Education Unit found that 4% of 12 to 13 year olds admitted to drinking 28 or more units of alcohol in the previous week. The levels of alcohol consumption exceed the Government's daily guidelines for me [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

The 10 Best Wine Regions You've Never Heard Of

Travel writer Stefani Jackenthal spent the past year exploring wine regions around the country for her new book Wanderlust Wining. She hit all the classic regions, of course—Napa, the Finger Lakes—but she also stumbled upon so [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn Wine Sale Nets Nearly $13 million

Sotheby's Hong Kong two-day wine sale of the autumn season concluded with a combined total of $12.7 million. The two sales - The Classic Cellar from A Great American Collector VIII and Finest & Rarest Wines, including the Ultimate Nin [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

New York winery pushes 9/11 “memorial” wine

“Epic fail” were the kindest words celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain had for a line of “9/11 memorial commemorative” wines being peddled by a Long Island company ahead of the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks [...]

Posted On : Aug, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Wine of the Week: 2010 Bodegas Muga Rosado

I'm flying through my summer wines, already out of rosés. But I've got a new candidate for house wine: the 2010 rosado or rosé from renowned Rioja producer Bodegas Muga. It's salmon-pink in color, more structured [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

$1 Million Of Wine Destroyed In Forklift Accident

If you are a wine lover, you might want to close the browser window now, and move on. This could be painful. You’ve been warned. In the blink of an eye, a third of this year’s production of Mollydooker Velvet Glove shiraz wine [...]