Bottom of the barrel.
This year's scorching drought in Australia could cut the country's wine production in half, costing vintners billions of dollars and forcing hundreds of winemakers out of business in what some climate scientists say is a harbinger of things to come. In the last decade, Australia has become...

One-on-one with Peter Mondavi Jr.: big-time winemaker gets hip to organic farming.
For Peter Mondavi Jr., organic grape growing is about the past, present, and future. His family's wine legacy began in 1943, when his grandparents acquired the Charles Krug Winery. Under their sons, Peter and Robert, it became the first Napa Valley winery to use cold fermentation for white wines...

Davi Luxury Skincare Teams with The Peninsula Hotels to Create Exclusive Amenity Range.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-26 November 2007-Davi Luxury Skincare Teams with The Peninsula Hotels to Create Exclusive Amenity Range(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Davi Skin has unveiled a new collection of in-room bath amenities created exclusively for the Peninsula Hotels. The line of hair and body...

SPG Solar Completes Solar Project for Napa County's Grgich Hills Winery.
ENERGY RESOURCE-23 January 2007-SPG Solar Completes Solar Project for Napa County's Grgich Hills Winery(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com SPG Solar has completed the second phase of the commercial photovoltaic system for the Grgich Hills winery in Napa Valley, California. Together, Phase I, completed in 2005, and...

Akeens Solar Acquires Assets of Solar Company in Northern California's Wine Country.
ENERGY RESOURCE-7 May 2007-Akeens Solar Acquires Assets of Solar Company in Northern California's Wine Country(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Akeena Solar Inc., one of the largest solar installers in the country, has acquired certain assets of Alternative Energy Inc. (AEI) of Santa Rosa, California. Under the...

Sokol Blosser Winery Founder Awarded Sunset Magazine 'Green Award'.
ENERGY RESOURCE-10 September 2007-Sokol Blosser Winery Founder Awarded Sunset Magazine 'Green Award'(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Sokol Blosser Winery founder and president Susan Sokol Blosser has been awarded Sunset Magazine's prestigious "Green Award." The honor was announced in the September 2007 issue of Sunset, which noted...

Wild yeasts help create volatile compounds in wine fermentation.
As winemakers strive continually to make better and more complex wines, more attention is being given to the type of yeast used for fermentation. The wild yeasts found in fermenting wine each have different reaction rates and will produce different end products as they ferment the juice sugars to...

What would Jesus drink?
One day I call a friend in San Francisco, the most erudite oenophiliac guy you ever met, a guy who knows more about wine and wine history and wine culture and wine production and wine marketing and wine details and wine quality and lack thereof than anyone in the...

Imagery: Art for Wine.
Imagery: Art for Wine Bob Nugent Wine Appreciation Guild 350 Swift Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080 1891267922 $70.00 www.wineappreciation.com The lavish and lovely IMAGERY: ART FOR WINE comes from a winemaker and Sonoma artist who back in 1985...

Pernod sues Matusalem over 'Cuban' rum.
French drinks giant Pernod Ricard, which has long battled the Bacardi empire in court over use of the "Havana Club" trademark, is now taking on another legal battle. This one is against Matusalem, a Miami-based company that sells "Cuban" rum. The Economist, in its Apr....