Wine News

Senate Approves Online Wine Sales (CBS 46 News Atlanta)
Wine drinkers would be allowed to buy wine online, if a bill passed by the Senate MOnday is signed by the governor.

Mead Basics
When St. Patty’s day roles around, some local leprechauns may be looking to shake up their green beer traditions with a true Irish treasure enter Mead. What exactly is…

Wine Industry Executive Profile: Eric Morham (North Bay Business Journal)
(Editor s note: This is the first in a series of Business Journal profiles of prominent wine industry executives.)

Favorite Wine Links: Wine Grape Varietal Table
Here’s a direct link to Steve De Long’s delightfully geeky new wine-grape chart, a must-have gift for the serious wine hobbyist on your list.

Picking a perfect Passover wine (News 10 Now Syracuse)
Passover is the next big event on the Jewish calendar and picking the perfect wine for the occasion is key. Our Giselle Phelps attended a Kosher wine tasting and explains why the drink is so significant to the Jewish community at this special time of year.

Shop for your favourite wine (HT via Yahoo! India News)
The hip and happening departmental stores and malls would now get more licences to sell liquor. The only condition, which the Delhi government’s Excise Department has imposed, is that it would sell only beer, wine and ‘ready to drink’ (RTD) alcoholic beverages and not ‘hard’ liquor.

Pairing Wine and Cheese
Wine and cheese have gone hand in hand for centuries; however, with today s ever increasing options for both wines and cheese the pairing decisions can be staggering. So, to take…

More evidence natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine kills cancer (News-Medical-Net)
Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell’s core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling its function.

An unlikely wine industry in India (AP via Yahoo! News)
Bulls lumber down dusty roads, cow-dung patties bake in the sun, and women in bright saris pluck grapes from manicured fields, their bangles jangling with every toss.

Wine Reports: Chateau Sauman 2005 Cotes de Bourg ($9.99)
A lot of Bordeaux for 10 bucks: Good fruit and acid in balance, firm tannins and intriguing minerality.