Wine, Beer & Spirits
Financial woes end hopes for Copia, a California wine and food institute funded in part by late winemaker Robert Mondavi. Financial stability for venture was elusive, and nonprofit never drew visitors needed to support it and its organic herb gardens, demonstration kitchen and restaurant named for Julia Child.
By Julia Moskin
The New York Times 2008-12-23 (entry)
Wine producers everywhere need to follow Italy's lead and deliver better wine in a box. With U.S. poised to become largest market, consumers need to demand the switch to lighter packaging. It's the environmental and affordable thing to do. Once open, a box preserves wine for about four weeks, compared to a day or two for a bottle.
By Tyler Colman
The New York Times 2008-08-17 (entry)
As economy struggles, wine, liquor and beer sales rise in Iowa. Treasury gathered $87.6 million for the 12 months ending June 30, up 3.7 percent from year earlier. Most of the money went to general fund, for education, environmental protection, welfare and public safety; 16 percent goes to substance abuse programs.
By William Petroski
The Des Moines Register 2008-08-04 (entry)
After population's mid-century exodus to urban Italy, grape vines tended for centuries were left to run wild. Now, vineyard sleuth in Alpine valley works to save grape varietals from extinction, to bring them back to cultivation and, finally to turn them into wine.
By Aaron Maines
The Wall Street Journal. (may require subscription) 2008-07-04 (entry)
Spanish winemakers, alarmed by warming climate, build a rainwater reservoir, try new varieties, fertilize, monitor by satellite, grow their vines taller and prune them differently, harvest earlier, sometimes even by night and plan a $370 million study. Meanwhile, the grapes are ripening faster, sugar and alcohol content are rising, and the aroma is losing its complexity.
By Jerome Socolovsky
National Public Radio 2008-02-12 (entry)
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Regulators propose nutrition- and alcohol-content labeling for products of $160 billion beer, wine and liquor industry, and all have competing concerns about cost, placement and shape. But consumers want to know alcohol content by volume and in fluid ounces by serving. Tobacco, Tax and Trade Bureau is accepting comments; click "See also," below.
By Cindy Skrzycki
The Washington Post; Bloomberg News 2008-01-22 (entry)
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Starting a wine-tasting group can remove the randomness from what's in our glass. At a tasting, wine is the star, and attention is on contents of each bottle. Events are often region-specific, and conducted with the bottles hidden from view and the cost divided among the members.
By Paul Gregutt
The Seattle Times (WA) 2008-01-02 (entry)
Americans are poised to edge ahead of Italians and trail only the French in wine consumption. Factors cited include perceived health benefits, women's higher incomes, and friendly marketing techniques. But we do like good deals: 90 percent of all wine, by volume, is sold in a food store for less than $10.
By Walter Nicholls
The Washington Post 2007-12-26 (entry)
India's only certified enologist learns finer points of wine-making at California vineyard to enrich the classes she teaches back home. Industry, in its infancy, is growing at 25 percent a year, and added 50,000 acres of wine grapes between 2000 and 2005.
By Matt Villano
San Francisco Chronicle 2007-12-09 (entry)
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With rich timing, seventh-generation distiller, just the first to do it legally, finds a market for locally made vodka using cast-off parts from an old food processing factory and a coil for bottling that once was part of a cow-milking apparatus. There are about 100 such micro-distilleries across the country.
By Susan Saulny
The New York Times 2007-11-25 (entry)
Raids in Nashville, Lynchburg net 2,400 bottles of vintage Jack Daniels, some near 100 years old and valued at about $1 million. Some might be sold at auction, but if officials discover it was being sold without a proper license, the whiskey might be dumped.
By Joe Edwards
The Associated Press; Lexington Herald-Leader 2007-11-16 (entry)
Swooping, multicolored titanium-skinned "temple of wine," with spa, restaurant and hotel, at the Marques de Riscal winery in Elciego, is just an hour from Frank Gehry's other Spanish masterpiece of construction, Guggenheim Bilbao.
expatica.com (entry)
Despite it's winery-sponsored printing, Robert Joseph's, "Wine Travel Guide to the World" is a tantalizing and beautifully photographed armchair tour that tempts the reader into checking online ticket prices.
By Susan Reigler
The Courier-Journal (KY) (entry)
