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Amazon to enter US wine market
By Jonathan Birchall in New York
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is to start selling wine in the US, entering a business fraught with regulatory complexities and littered with the wreckage of previous failures.
Amazon is looking to recruit a senior wine buyer, whom it says will be responsible for “the acquisition of a massive new […]
Moderate Drinkers Less Likely to Develop Deadly Diseases, Study Finds
Though beverage type was not a factor with certain ailments, wine was particularly effective in lowering the risk of heart disease
Jacob Gaffney
Posted: Friday, February 29, 2008
A study published in the December/January 2008 issue of medical journal Angiology has shown further support to the belief that drinking wine responsibly helps reduce the risk of heart disease. […]
Credit crunch fuels thirst for art and wine
By Clara Ferreira-Marques
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Rollercoaster markets may have cooled investor appetites for shares or property, but interest in offbeat investments is booming as a growing number of art and wine funds compete to combine passion with high returns.
Downturns typically mean a slowdown in investments that are seen as discretionary, but industry watchers say […]
Questioning BevMo’s wine ratings
The retailer’s scores are set by an in-house critic, raising concerns over whether they are advice or ads.
By Jerry Hirsch
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 3, 2008
Walk down the aisle of any Beverages & More store and you’ll be confronted by boxes and bottles of wine — and a bevy of wine scores. There are 89 […]
Smaller wine bottles could cut alcohol consumption, says journal
Reducing the size of standard wine bottles could help cut alcohol consumption and related health problems, a leading medical journal says today.
Piling further pressure on the alcohol industry and retailers, the British Medical Journal urges them to discourage consumers from drinking “supersize” glasses of wine amid moves to ban large meal portions as part of […]
Internet wine sales closer to becoming legal
State House approves bill allowing Georgians to order from farm wineries; Senate will get a shot
By JAMES SALZER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/28/08
The state House overwhelmingly approved legislation this afternoon that would let Georgians buy cases of wine over the Internet from farm wineries.
House members also passed legislation letting wineries in Georgia sell beer and liquor […]
Sonoma Vintner’s Team Crafts Pricey Wines, Funds Wheelchairs
Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) — Former Wall Street publisher turned vintner Gordon L. Holmes has a unique concept in philanthropy: For each bottle of wine you purchase as futures from his Lookout Ridge Winery, he donates a wheelchair in your name to one of the world’s 100 million needy people desperate for mobility.
These wines aren’t […]
Vindu’s View: Crushpad lets beginners make wine worry-free
By Vindu Goel
Mercury News
When I look at the two cases of 2006 Juice Crew Red that now sit in my dining room, I still can’t believe it: I helped make that wine.
The delicious Rhone-style blend of grenache, syrah and petite syrah cost our band of amateur vintners less than $20 a bottle, start to finish. […]
A Rule Just Waiting to Be Broken
By ERIC ASIMOV
“RED wine with oysters? Are you mad?”
Quite possibly. And yet, the thought excited me. Why would I want to muck with such routinely thrilling combinations as oysters with muscadet, Chablis or Champagne, not to mention the old Irish standby, Guinness stout?
Well, why not?
Nobody loves the tried-and-true oyster-and-wine pairings more than I do. […]
Al Gore Praises Green Initiatives in the Wine Industry
At climate conference, some vintners feel industry still has a long way to go, and that consumers will demand more eco-friendly wines in the future
Jacob Gaffney
During his closing speech at last weekend’s World Meeting on Climate Change & Wine 2008, held in Barcelona, former U.S. vice president Al Gore lauded the wine industry for being […]
