Big Alcohol sits out fight between states, small wineries
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CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- Interstate direct-to-consumer wine sales, already de facto in dozens of states, could eventually end up de jure in several more, depending on the outcome of a case being argued Tuesday before the US Supreme Court.
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America is drunk on ethanol -- Midwestern corn farmers, Detroit automakers, politicians approving subsidies and Bush shaking hands in Brazil, but ethanol isn't ready for primetime. By the Associated Press.
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Bordeaux wine-makers in France face crisis distillation to reduce Europe's "wine lake", writes Caroline Wyatt.
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State laws barring people from buying wine directly from out-of-state suppliers should be struck down as unconstitutional, the Supreme Court was told Tuesday, as it heard arguments in a case that could lead to sweeping changes on how alcoholic beverages are regulated and sold.
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Wine is less a beverage than an elixir of life in France, but the country's vintners say they're vexed by a problem that threatens their livelihood: too much of a good thing and not enough people drinking it.
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YENDA, Australia  - The winding lines of shipping containers outside Casella Wines may mark the high-point of Australia's A$3 billion wine export market as drought and possible climate shift bite.
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Times are tough in the soft-drink bottling business.
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Super-sized servings of sauvignon blanc, giant goblets of grenache: wine glasses in Britain's bars are larger than ever and deepening the country's problematic relationship with alcohol, lawmakers and health officials warn.
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Efforts to shore up the European wine industry by tearing out vineyards have set the stage for a debate as Europeans contemplate the cost of their love affair with the grape.
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Wine lovers may look askance at once-a-year bubbly drinkers, grumble about âamateur nightâ and get ready to uncork that special bottle.
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French winemakers are beginning to claw back their dominance of the global wine market after years of problems in responding to innovation from the New World.
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Being freelance wine critics may sound like a sweet gig, but Ray and Eleanor Heald have soured on it. Because their home state, Michigan, blocks direct shipments from out-of-state
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"People who really know their wines here already know about the Northwest"  Vineyards in Oregon and Washington share a state border but differ in many ways. via KGW-TV Portland
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MONTEPULCIANO, Italy  - Faces furrowed with   concentration and biceps bulging, Lorenzo Martire and Giovanni   Zorn puffed their way up the narrow streets of this medieval   town, rolling the 175-pound oak wine barrel ahead of them.
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The Supreme Court is considering whether states may bar people from buying wine directly from out-of-state suppliers, a big-money question that could lead to sweeping changes in how alcoholic beverages are regulated and sold.
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PARIS  - Winegrowers in northeast France are puzzled over the mysterious destruction of large swaths of two vineyards in Alsace, a region along the German border known for full-bodied white wines.
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State laws barring people from buying wine directly from out-of-state suppliers should be struck down as unconstitutional, the Supreme Court was told Tuesday as it