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Oregon Wine Grape Production Hits Record
By SARAH SKIDMORE
Associated Press Writer
5:12 AM CDT, March 17, 2008
PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon produced and crushed a record amount of grapes in 2007, the third year in a row it has hit such highs.
Experts say it’s the result of the right mix of good weather and demand for Oregon wine.
“I think it’s just another impressive […]
Amazon’s Grape Escape
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz
Will that be a bottle of red or a bottle of white with your copy of The Grapes of Wrath?
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is gearing up to begin selling wine through its online storefront, this morning’s Financial Times speculates after unearthing a job opening for a senior wine buyer at the world’s leading […]
Salud: Vintners raise a glass to the weaker dollar
Bargain prices entice drinkers abroad to taste California’s harvest.
By Jerry Hirsch
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
February 29, 2008
With the declining value of the U.S. dollar and increasing wine sales overseas, Charles Shaw wine, an American favorite, may seem in some places more like “One-Buck Chuck.”
That’s because the low value of the dollar is starting to turn […]
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 […]
Wine You Can Unpop From A Can
By J.M. HIRSCH
Associated Press
First there was the plastic stopper. Then the box. Then the screw cap. Now comes the soda can.
Efforts to find better ways to package wine generally have focused on eliminating the cork, a natural material that unfortunately can taint wine with a harmless but distasteful bacteria.
Now an Argentinean company is ditching the […]
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