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Every now and again, a unique, useful or important story is published or featured in the general news media regarding innovations in the wine industry.  We are on the hunt for special features on our favorite subject that may not be accessible through general search engines, and great articles that are worthy of reposting.

• Now You Can Have Your Vineyard and Drink it Too

By Yvonne Lea | for Escape from America Magazine

Does it sound like crazy advice to say, “BUY A VINEYARD”?  If so, I hope you’ll think again after I tell you what happened to me and my husband when we landed in Argentina for the first time.

A few years ago, we began our venture to retire overseas, and like many Americans who are searching for more, we had compiled our short list of potential countries. Mexico was number one because of its close proximity to the US, and as much as we smiled and said to each other, “Honey, this is it!” in our hearts, we silently knew it wasn’t Mexico, so we moved on.



 

• Academic Wine Reading By Stefanie Payne |  Publisher / Designer  CityRoom Inc.

A quarterly journal packed with true wine academia. The American Society for Enology and Viticulture (AJEV) was started by a group of California winemakers and researchers, publishing it's first stand-alone journal in 1950.

Today, the organization is the premier English language scientific research tool on the science of wine and grape growing... covering such subjects as microbiology, plant pathogenesis, wine and sensory chemistry, grape genetics and clonal evaluation, pest and disease control, and much more.

• Early signs of better fourth-quarter for wine; high end labels will continue to see

  pressure.  By Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter

SANTA ROSA — Early indications of improved fourth-quarter sales of fine wine could partly offset significant declines in sales growth this year, and 2010 could bring some upswing for the segment as trade buyers place orders to maintain new, lower inventory levels, according to a report released today from Silicon Valley Bank’s Wine Division.

• World's Most Expensive Wines | July 22nd, 2009

By Nick Passmore for Forbes

When an enterprising young man named James Christie opened his sales rooms in London in December 1766, his first auction consisted of the estate of a "deceased nobleman" containing "a large Quantity of Madeira and high Flavour'd Claret."

• Four Wine Country Contenders  | September 1, 2009

Budget Travel for CNN.com/Travel  |  By Thomas Berger, Beth Collins and Alison Rohrs

Perhaps they're not the first place you think of when it comes to wineries, but these four regions offer character and great wine, without the hoopla.

Featuring:

• Walla Walla, WA
• Anderson Valley, CA
• Hermann / New Haven, Missouri
• Charlottesville, Virginia

 

• $1 Million wine book (wine included) | July 22nd, 2009

The Most Expensive Things - Luxuo

A $1 million wine book, weighing 30kg, is set to be released in the Spring of 2010. The Wine Opus will list the world’s top 100 wineries. That’s not a typo: $1 million. Because . . . every purchaser of the book will also receive a six-bottle case of wine from every one of the 100 wineries listed.

The book is published by Kraken Opus, which has previously launched extravagant works on fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, Indian cricket ace Sachin Tendulkar and Argentine footballer Diego Maradona.

Only 100 copies of the book will be made – 25 have already been pre-ordered, with a number of copies set aside for auction.

• Modern Italian Wine Paired with Ancient Roman Cuisine

  From the Editors at Springwise

Where the Amazing Food Wine Company, which we covered a few years ago, created its wines for pairing with commonly enjoyed contemporary American foods—pizza, pasta, etc—Madeinmilan Wines has taken the opposite approach, focusing instead on a historical meal.

 

• How to Optimize Winery Website Page Names and URL's

By Brian Pasch  I   Wine Marketer Newsletter

One of the most overlooked ways in which you can optimize you winery website for search marketing is to create effective website “page names”. In addition to the domain name you choose to host your website, your website page name choices can have a big impact on how consumers find your site. Traditionally, website page names were created by web programmers. Today, the process of naming web pages should be in conjunction with your marketing department and web development firm....