Enobytes

Compagnie de Transport Maritime a la Voile (CTMV), a French shipping company created the world’s first fleet of sail-driven merchant ships to transport Languedoc wines. The initiative is to support a sustainable economic development project. Since CO² emissions from transport are expected to rise by 50% in Europe by 2010, the Treaty of Amsterdam project [...]

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Have you noticed how often producers change their wine labels? Case in point; you are in a local wine store in search of your favorite wine, which mysteriously disappears off the shelf. You’ve bought it a million times before and its branding is fairly recognizable; it has a big red and green label with a [...]

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The Oregon Liquor Control Board Commission (OLCC) passed a petition to allow eleven new grape varietals to be blended with other varietals, as long as they don’t exceed 25%. Until now, Oregon wines labeled with a grape variety had to be at least 90% of that variety. The varietals, which include Carmenere, Petite Sirah, Grenache, [...]

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