San Rafael, Calif. -- Wine East, the wine industry magazine covering Eastern North America, is joining forces with Wines & Vines magazine, bringing better and more frequent coverage of eastern grapegrowing and winemaking to the pages of the broader-based publication. Beginning with the September issue of Wines & Vines, Hudson Cattell and Linda Jones McKee, the editors and owners of Wine East who founded the magazine 27 years ago, will provide wine industry editorial content exclusively to Wines & Vines.

 

Napa, Calif. -- American Winesecrets of Napa acquired the reverse osmosis-based technologies and alcohol-adjustment services of Sebastapol, Calif-based Vinovation Inc.

Winesecrets, which acquired the mobile filtration division of Vinovation in January, will acquire the assets and assume and expand operation at the Sebastopol facility and throughout California and most of North America, says Eric Dahlberg, founder and president of Winesecrets. The transition began this week, and some of Vinovation's employees will join Winesecrets.

 

Growers Transition to Organic The ins and outs of registration, certification and building your soil READ »

One of wine's most magical properties is its ability, unique among foodstuffs, to not only survive but improve with long-term aging. A good cheese may benefit from a year or two of affinage, but only after a decade or two (or three or four) does the full wonder of a fine wine emerge--if, that is, it hasn't completely fallen apart in the meantime.

Since 2006, when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) adopted regulations limiting to 3 ounces the amount of liquids passengers could carry onto a plane, vacationers visiting tasting rooms--and the wineries that want their business--have been forced to get creative.

Those of us old enough to remember the first time organic wines came around need to get over ourselves. Twenty-five years ago the wines were mostly terrible; the vineyards were largely amateur-hour productions, and the public quickly turned away.

Until now, the sustainable winegrowing programs of which I am aware have been dedicated to education and self improvement, with regions and states coming together to develop programs to help themselves move along the sustainable farming continuum. One aspect of sustainable winegrowing is only now beginning to emerge, and that is marketing winegrapes and wines produced using sustainable practices. It is an essential aspect of sustainable winegrowing for the simple reason that if one cannot sell his wines in sufficient amounts, the vineyard and winery will go out of business--in other words, they will not be sustainable.

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