MarketWatch Why yield-thirsty investors are now lapping up fine wineMarketWatchThe Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 index, considered the industry's leading benchmark, has rallied 16% since the turn of the year. That easily outperforms a 6.6% gain for the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.01% a 3.7% drop in the dollar DXY, -0.33% and a 4.2% loss for […]
Ava Winery says it’s nearly perfected wine in a lab – Business Insider – Business Insider
Business Insider Ava Winery says it's nearly perfected wine in a lab – Business InsiderBusiness InsiderAva Winery's first public taste test didn't exactly go well. Two reporters on camera at New Scientist compared the biotech startup's artificial wine with a glass of … and more » Brought to you by Google News. Read the rest of the […]
Margrit Biever Mondavi, ‘great lady’ of Napa wine world, dies at 91 – Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times Margrit Biever Mondavi, 'great lady' of Napa wine world, dies at 91Los Angeles TimesMargrit Biever Mondavi, the widow of California wine pioneer Robert G. Mondavi who served as the company's cultural affairs director for decades, has died. She was 91. Mondavi died Friday afternoon of cancer at her Napa home, said Keith […]
Liquor insurrection ends, Total Wine will pay $37500 fine – CT Post
CT Post Liquor insurrection ends, Total Wine will pay $37500 fineCT PostAfter a week of slashing prices on its wine and liquor and thumbing its nose at the state's minimum-pricing law, Total Wine & More agreed Thursday to pay a $37,500 fine for charging customers too little. “Our customers deserve lower prices, and we'll …Total […]
Yes, they can: Millennials buying canned wine hand over fist – MarketWatch
MarketWatch Yes, they can: Millennials buying canned wine hand over fistMarketWatchSales of canned wine — which might have seemed a more touchy proposition for wine enthusiasts than boxed wines or screw-top caps in decades past — have taken off. They're up more than 125% over the past year, according to Nielsen. As is often the …When […]
Private Investment Firm Purchases Control of Duckhorn Wine Company – Wine Spectator
Wine Spectator Private Investment Firm Purchases Control of Duckhorn Wine CompanyWine SpectatorTSG Consumer Partners, a San Francisco–based private equity-investment group, announced today that it will acquire Duckhorn Wine Company, the Napa-based Merlot powerhouse, from the current majority investor, GI Partners. Neither party disclosed …Duckhorn Wine Co. sold to private equity firm | Local News …Napa Valley […]
Nova Destinations draws its own wine trail across Northwest Pennsylvania – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Nova Destinations draws its own wine trail across Northwest PennsylvaniaPittsburgh Post-GazetteWalter and Katie Novosel run their own wine trail. It stretches like a fruitful vine over 18 west-to-east miles along state Route 208 in the Amish country of Lawrence and Mercer counties northwest of Pittsburgh. It also features stops for hard cider … […]
Wine collection of indicted oil exec who died is being auctioned in Chicago – Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune Wine collection of indicted oil exec who died is being auctioned in ChicagoChicago TribuneA photograph shows Lot 551 – 2000 Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion from the Hart Davis Hart auction of the wines of Aubrey McClendon. The auction will be held Sept. 17 at Tru restaurant in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, but online […]
The Disastrous $45 Million Fall of a High-End Wine Scammer – Bloomberg
Bloomberg The Disastrous $45 Million Fall of a High-End Wine ScammerBloombergThis is a legendary Bordeaux vintage, one that made critic Robert Parker's career when he championed it for ushering in a new era of complexity and balance for French wines. Smitten by the Lafite's grapy charisma, Hui began learning all he could about … Brought […]
Rating the future of wine sales in post-scoring world – Charleston Post Courier
Charleston Post Courier Rating the future of wine sales in post-scoring worldCharleston Post CourierWine critics and the scores they assign to bottles have declined in prestige so precipitously that a recent in-house study at Whole Foods Market showed customers are more likely to make buying decisions based on friends', relatives' and salespeople's … and more » Brought […]
