Topic: United States
N. Carolina, where winemaking dates to 1835, now home to more than 90 wineriesNorth Carolina is known for basketball, beaches and barbecue. But wine doesn't necessarily come to mind when thinking about the Tar Heel State. Yet North Carolina is home to ...
Mesmer has said, "The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have to achieve it"! Perfect epitomes for the above quote are Susan Auler, Mark Augment and Al Auletta Susan Auler is Fall Creek Vineyards Co-Founder/Dir ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - You probably know, or think you know, that fine wine gets better with age. But how do you know that? It is probably not by tasting a large number of fine wines of various vintages. Instead, you're ...
Vineyard tours give visitors the real dirt on winemakingThey say great wine is made in the vineyard. Now some vintners are inviting guests to check that out through walking tours aimed at giving the real dirt on winemaking. "One of the challenges ...
Swipe, smile, blow: High-tech wine vending machines installed at Pennsylvania supermarketsSwipe your driver's license, look into the camera, blow into the breath sensor and — voila! — you have permission to buy a bottle of wine from a vending machine. Pennsylvania, which ...
You know times have changed when French wine promoters, bruised by competition from "New World" wines, say they have to think more "like Coca-Cola". The sector has started fighting back with the New World upstarts' own weapon -- dropping complex regional labelling ...
You know times have changed when French wines, bruised by competition from the "New World", fight back with the upstarts' own weapon -- dropping complex regional labeling for the plain old grape name. Even the staunchest of Gallic wine lovers now order ...
UKIAH, California (Reuters) - It's easy being green in Mendocino, California, where many of the county's 84 vintners are certified organic, biodynamic or carbon neutral. Tim Thornhill, a transplanted Texan who formed the Mendocino Wine Company six years ago in the county ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Every so often, I host a wine contest at my home, and I'd encourage you to do the same: it's easy, it's pretty cheap for the host, and it's loads of fun. The rules are pretty simple. ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Wine labeling remains a highly confusing affair. The challenges range from the place-specific labels on most French, Italian and Spanish wines (such as Montrachet, Chianti and Rioja) that require a good deal of knowledge to understand what's ...