Wine Sediments

I am always looking for ways to be green (I do live in Northern California, after all) and it seems that local vineyards have found a way to be green and make money at the same time.  CBS5, a local TV station, reports that a company outside the town of Vacaville is turning table scraps from […]

The whims of the wine market sure are hard to keep track of these days.  According to Wine Business Monthly, the newest trend is a rise in sales of Riesling. ACNielsen tracks the market and says that Riesling holds the fourth spot in sales and sales are booming.  In fact, for the time period between November 2003 and […]

Odds are you have not heard of Two Tun wine.  That’s because there are only 1,800 bottles of it and they are sold only in south-west London at Twickenham’s Real Ale Shop.  This Is Local London’s Hannah Farquharson shares the details of how Two Tun wine was started.  
Two wine traders, Guy Smith and Richard Addison, thought it would be […]

The AP reports that the small town of Tracy in the northern San Joaquin Valley of California recently earned itself a marketing tool. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, a division of the United States Treasury Department, granted approval label wine from the region as unique. The region is called “Tracy […]

Who doesn’t love a good list, right?  Terry Kirby of the The Belfast Telegraph taps into the ease and familiarity of a list and provides what he considers to be the best ten red wines for Autumn.  Here are the top three and what Kirby has to say about each.  Check out the full article […]

The Sacramento Business Journal’s Celia Lamb reports that interesting things are afoot in California’s El Dorado County.  Growers there have decided that just growing Merlot or Chardonnay isn’t going to cut it anymore.  As a result, they have decided to venture out and try growing grapes that are “something to appeal to people’s inquisitiveness,” according to […]

The AP reports that Oregon grape growers are smiling these days because of an above average grape harvest. While the exact numbers for the harvest are not available until November, the rumor is that this harvest is 15 to 20 percent higher than usual.
For the last two years, Oregon grape growers have not been so […]

The old saying goes that it usually pays to follow the KISS rule - Keep It Simple, Stupid. Beverage World reports that a top European Union official appears to think this rule should be applied to European wine makers. The specific countries targeted by the comments are France, Italy and Germany, according to […]

The Sacramento Business Journal reports that some Northern California grape growers are leaving grapes to wither on the vine. The cause for the waste of grapes is a larger than expected harvest. Of course, the huge harvest is also lowering prices: “Lodi growers are selling some grapes for less than $200 per ton […]

Deciding which wine to pair with Thanksgiving might not be as easy as you think. The wine has to go well not only with the turkey, but will all the fixings, too. What wines will go well with roasted turkey, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, and green beans? Sunset Magazine’s Sara Schneider […]