Seattle, Wash.—The acts of preserving and transporting partially consumed bottles of wine traditionally have been considered two separate issues, but a Seattle sporting goods manufacturer has devised a single solution. The founders of Cascade Designs Inc. hope both consumers and the wine industry will use PlatyPreserve to remove excess oxygen easily and securely transport and […]
Guala has launched Viiva, a screwcap closure for sparkling wine. The Viiva closure is suitable for up to 5GV (Gas Volume) liquid pressure and the group claims that it can maintain bubbles “for weeks after opening” even when laid on its side. Guala’s Simon Yudelevich said: “Viiva brings all the advantages a still wine screwcap […]
The 1774 bottle, which fetched US$49,343 (CHF46,000) at Christie’s Geneva last night, was sold to an unnamed French buyer. It was part of a batch which had been kept intact for eight generations by the Vercel family, winemakers in the region, in a vaulted underground cellar in Arbois, the capital of Jura wines. Arbois was […]
How do winemakers produce a cabernet sauvignon or Bordeaux red blend that can age 10 years and beyond? We asked the winemakers who played a key role in producing the top three winners in The Press Democrat’s recent 10-year retrospective tasting, and this is what they had to say: Eric Olsen, vice president and chief […]
PASO ROBLES, Calif., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — As early as two years ago, Sunset Magazine’s wine editor, Sara Schneider, chose wine blends as the magazine’s number four (of six) wine trends for 2010. Canada’s Tom Firth, writing in WineAccess in June 2010, said, “the future of red wines does not lie in […]
Freud struggled to find an answer to the question “What does a woman want?” Ninety-odd years later, some in the wine industry think they know. According to the new “girly-wine” brand marketers, we want to be skinny, to toss our hair playfully like ponies as we pick our bottles to match moods, not foods. We […]
The wine grape market has shifted so quickly and dramatically that wine industry veterans are calling it a game change. A looming grape shortage and growing demand for California wines have driven grape prices higher, with some grape prices doubling in the span of a year. And wineries that were hit hard by the recession […]
Rare-wine collectors are savvy, competitive guys with a taste for impossible finds. The biggest hoax in history took place right under their noses. Even at Rudy Kurniawan’s coming-out party in September 2003, there were questionable bottles of wine. A score of Southern California’s biggest grape nuts had gathered at the restaurant Melisse in Santa Monica […]
Off-premise wine sales data increased 3 percent from the same period of the previous year in the 4 weeks ending April 28, 2012, according to The Nielsen Company-tracked data. In the 13 weeks ending during the same period, wine sales increased 3.7 percent. Domestic wine sales increased 4.4 percent while imported wine sales fell 0.7 […]
For the last ten years, the supermarket chain Trader Joe’s has been selling its Charles Shaw Wines – better known as Two-Buck Chuck – for two bucks. It’s been a great success. In fact, a recent editions of Trader Joe’s “Fearless Flyer” newspaper says: “We do think we know why these wines have struck a […]