Winexpression

Note to all former bud drinkers: Anheuser Busch wants you back. The company has hired famed director Spike Lee to spearhead a new ad campaign aimed at those lost to wine and spirits. The company has come to the conclusion that the reason behind its weak sales is people moving to wine, not because of […]

Claiming inferior quality wine, Russia has banned all wine coming from Moldova or Georgia. This follows a ban on Meat and Dairy from Ukraine.
Russia’s chief public health official, Gennady Onishchenko, signed a letter on March 25 asking the head of the customs service not to allow wine from either country into Russia. Hundreds of […]

Over the next week or so, everyone will be keenly interested in how the 2005 vintage of Bordeaux is going to turn out. Many are claiming this to be a great year for the region. To keep you up to date on the goings on in that part of the world, Wine Spectator has commissioned […]

Maynard James Keenan is attempting to do just that. After already successfully navigating the music business as lead singer for Tool and A Perfect Circle, his new venture, Caduceus, is an extension of a love he found for wine. I remember a few years ago reading an article in Wine Spectator about how he had […]

The dynamic duo is at it again, with a new press release that highlights the recent anti-competitive law miraculously passed at the end of 2005, banning alternative closures from being used on any wines from 11 regions in Spain. If any winery in those regions chooses to use an alternative closure, they will not receive […]

Basketballs that is. Oakville’s Screaming Eagle Winery has been sold for an undisclosed sum, (estimated around 20-30 Million), to Santa Barbara based Charles Banks (38), a money manager for NBA players and other athletes, and his business partner, entrepreneur Stanley Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets and a real estate tycoon. The transaction was reported […]

Who doesn’t like free stuff? I just signed up for a free USB thumb drive from Microsoft, all I had to provide was my email and mailing address, not a bad deal. Wally’s, “the #1 Wine Shop in Los Angeles” according to a Zagat survey, is offering a free corkscrew if you sign up for […]

In what’s being called the agricultural equivalent of the first moonwalk (not MJ’s, the other one), Italian scientists have successfully sequenced the Pinot Noir genome. The San Michele all’Adige Agrarian Institute, the group responsible for the 6 year study, remarks that this development “will make it possible to create new, more resistant grape […]

It’s sobering when you stop and think that two people visiting Napa Valley for a day of wine tasting can rack up a bill of $200 if they visit four wineries @ $25 a tasting. Honestly, that’s ridiculous.
I found an interesting piece in the Chronicle this weekend that was frustrating for my wife and […]

What happens when you take 5 of Long Islands best winemakers, a few prized barrels of Merlot from each winery, and throw them all together? You get Merliance, the new wine venture by the Long Island Merlot Alliance to showcase the complexity of this grape and the terrior from which it is grown. The […]