Source: Telegraph

Wine bottles to get health danger labels
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
Bottles of wine are to carry health warnings from next year under Government plans to crack down on so-called “binge drinking”.
The finest clarets and best burgundies will not escape the latest drive to counter the booze culture, which continues on Monday with [...]

Source: Solid Waste and Recycling
Ontario puts wine and liquor bottles on deposit
The Ontario government has announced that wine and liquor bottles will be placed on deposit. The announcement, made by Premier Dalton McGuinty in Brampton on Sunday, September 10, marks a bold change in provincial policy and a victory for critics who, for a long time, [...]

Expanding wine industry lures entrepreneurs in many fields

Amy Wu
Staff writer
(September 25, 2006) — Rune and Giulietta Hilt sold their home in South Philly for The Red Dove Tavern, a Cheers-style restaurant/bar they plan to open next month in downtown Geneva. Any new restaurant [...]

Source: Chicago Tribune
By Michelle Slatalla
New York Times News Service
Published September 23, 2006

I live on what might be described as a drinking block.
It starts in the morning, when a steady stream of my neighbors walk by carrying cups of cappuccino. This being Northern California, and barely an hour from Napa, by sundown, the [...]

Source: Napa Valley Register

Three Napa wineries test a law saying small operators can’t donate to charities
By JACK HEEGER, Register Staff Writer
Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:13 AM PDT
Three Napa Valley vintners face possible license suspensions or stiff fines Tuesday when they come before an administrative law judge in Napa.
Their crime? They poured wine for charity.
According to [...]

Source: RecordNet 
STOCKTON - What’s a steak without a good bottle of red wine?
Most of the region’s thriving wineries were aware of the new federal restrictions on carry-on liquids on commercial airplanes within 24 hours of their implementation.
“As soon as we knew about it, we immediately changed the shipping cartons we use. They are actually airline-approved [...]

Source: ABC News 
The Wine Industry Council says government funded vine pulls are not the answer to the wine grape oversupply crisis.
A draft report on cool climate grape growers was tabled at the council’s meeting yesterday.
Di Davidson, from the council, says it recommends several ways forward, but removing vines is only needed in some cases.
“There have [...]

Source: The Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND — Through much of Thursday’s BART board meeting, people stared at the bottle of red wine perched in front of BART board member Gail Murray, wondering if she had a problem with alcohol.
Turns out she did, as did several other board members, who objected to the mass transit system allowing alcohol [...]

Source: Food Production Daily
New French wine appellations unhelpful, say critics

By Chris Mercer in Languedoc Roussillon
14/09/2006- French wine authorities have been criticised for creating three more appellation contrôlée wine areas at a time when France is trying [...]

Source: State News
MSU researchers could be responsible for increasing wine-grape production, as well as tourism in state vineyards.
About 1,500 acres of land are devoted to Michigan’s wine industry in the northwest, and it is estimated that Michigan’s wine sales grow at an average of 9 percent each year.
“The industry is small; there are only 47 [...]

Source: Courier News Online
 
By Paul Elias
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

 
SAN FRANCISCO — This city is a short stagger from the nation’s winemaking heart, a geography lesson not lost on the chemists flocking here this week with scientific papers and theories on how to take some of the guesswork out of grape growing and winemaking.
The occasion is the [...]

It’s the time of year when local wine growers are harvesting the plump, juicy ripe grapes off the vines.About 20 friends and family members were picking grapes among the vines at Long Creek Winery on Sunday.
This has become a tradition at the winery since 1999, as owners, Lou and Yola Cecchi, have family and [...]

Skip the corkscrew, all you’ll need is a straw. Some winemakers are now packaging their product in single-serve pouches and boxes.
The winemakers said they are responding to a growing demand for convenience by selling mini-bottles, cans, and now pouches of wine.Inexpensive brands including Sutter Home and Three Thieves have already found success in the single-serve [...]

By: KEITH LESLIE
TORONTO (CP) - Premier Dalton McGuinty will announce a new plan Sunday to have consumers pay a deposit on liquor and wine bottles at LCBO stores and return them to Beer Stores for refunds.
McGuinty says it’s no longer a matter of whether there will be deposits charged on liquor and wine bottles in [...]