NAPA, Calif. - Sultry weather can be hard on any traveler, and for wine it can be disastrous.
A high-tech shipping label now being used by some in the industry aims to warn customers if there’s a chance they’re getting cooked cabernet.
About the size of a sugar packet, the labels can be programmed for a range [...]

Between classic business savvy, an avid interest in the wine world, and the development of Kindle… Amazon may be poised to make a big move.
It isn’t exactly breaking news that Amazon is contemplating this move. They have tried this before. You may or may not recall their failed bid at the online wine market back [...]

Online advertising provider Microsoft AdCenter is removing all wine merchants from its client list in France, saying French legislation does not permit wine advertising online.
The decision by the software giant follows the ruling by a Paris appeals court earlier this year against beer producer Heineken. The court said Heineken’s webpage contravened France’s draconian 1991 Evin [...]

Winners of the second annual American Wine Blog Awards were announced Monday, including San Francisco’s Vinography, which won the awards for best overall wine blog and best wine blog writing.
Other winners included Good Wine Under $20 (best wine review blog and best single subject blog), Tablas Creek Wine Blog (best winery blog), Grape Radio (best [...]

FOSS has released OenoFoss, a new analyser providing instant quality control of grapes and wine.
The simple-to-use OenoFoss analyser meets a growing demand from wine producers for rapid and easy-to-obtain information in support of decisions such as when to pick grapes, how to control fermentation or when to bottle.
It will never replace human judgement, but now [...]

Chester, PA – ClassicWines.com has taken a tough stand against its largest client and removed all advertising for Wine.com from its popular online guide. The move is in response to Wine.com’s recent attempts to act as an independent policing body and subsequently limit competition in the burgeoning market of Internet wine sales.
“It is far easier [...]

Wine enthusiasts are creating social-networking sites for fellow oenophiles, and they’re doing more than just selling bottles.
Michael Stajer bet big on his idea to start an eBay-style (EBAY)Web site for buying and selling wines in 1999. The Bay Area attorney sold his personal wine collection for $25,000 to finance the site, called WineCommune. At the [...]

Local Wineries Voices Are Heard on the New “Classic Wines Minute” Videos
Chester, PA - ClassicWines.com takes their video show on the road to explore local wine regions, wineries and their facilities on the east coast. Much attention is given to California as a wine producing region in the US, but tourists are now turning their [...]

Inertia Beverage Group announced today its development of a new, comprehensive web-based compliance tool for the wine industry that will be offered to everyone without cost or fees.
The burden of complying with different wine shipping regulations and rules in 50 different states has created a barrier wineries must overcome in order to successfully engage [...]

Interactive advertising revenues continued to increase in Q1, nearing the $5 billion mark, according to the latest report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Internet advertising revenues reached a record $4.9 billion in the first three months of 2007, a 26 percent increase over Q1 2006 at $3.8 billion, and a 2 percent [...]

May 23, 2007 — Google is trying to clean up its search results by cracking down on dubious Web sites that contain little content but lots of ads.
The search giant has notified a number of Web publishers in the last few days that they will be dropped from its popular “AdSense” program starting June 1.
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WineLibrary.com’s Gary Vaynerchuck has announced their acquisition of Corkd.com…
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It may not be the first search engine to unveil an integrated approach to search results, but after unveiling its universal search model yesterday, Google has the industry abuzz about the potential implications — for users as well as advertisers.
Google’s stated goal in altering the way it presents search results is relevance to the search [...]

It has been six months since Macy’s opened its Web site to customer comments and reviews, and Peter Sachse, the chairman and chief executive of macys.com, regularly finds himself surprised by what the company is learning from its clientele. The site now gets upward of 350 reviews a day, some full of praise, others with [...]