) May 20, 2009 -- Vinfolio, the foremost fine wine and collector services company, today announced the launch of the first phase of the Vinfolio Marketplace, a fine wine online marketplace for buying and selling the aggregated contents of privately owned cellars. The Vinfolio Marketplace integrates Vinfolio's cutting-edge wine store with VinCellar, its innovative online cellar management application, enabling access to the $500+ million in wine managed by VinCellar users. The ability to offer hundreds of thousands of unique items for sale positions the Vinfolio Marketplace to quickly become the world's largest fine wine marketplace.

) June 22, 2009 -- Vinfolio, the foremost fine wine and collector services company, was recognized in a recent report by wine industry think tank, Vintank. The report gives a highly recommended ranking to Vinfolio's recently announced Vinfolio Marketplace for the wine trade. The Vinfolio Marketplace, a fine wine online marketplace for buying and selling the aggregated contents of privately owned cellars, integrates Vinfolio's cutting-edge wine store with VinCellar, its innovative online cellar management application, enabling access to an unprecedented supply of fine wine. For wineries and others in the wine trade, this opens up a new, low-cost, "direct-to-consumer" sales channel.

) May 27, 2009 -- Vinfolio today released current performance indicators for the global wine auction market updated through April, 2009. Wineprices.com Fine Wine Indexes indicate that prices continue to climb, as all indexes are up year-to-date (YTD). Specifically, each of the three indexes representing the most heavily traded fine wines are posting double-digit increases YTD, despite still being down 25% to 30% from 12 months ago. All signs indicate that this upward trend will continue in the coming months.

) November 11, 2008 -- Vinfolio, the foremost fine wine and collector services company, announces the opening of a new warehouse in Napa County, more than doubling the company's current capacity. Located in the city of American Canyon, the 20,000 square-foot climate-controlled facility, which was built exclusively to store wine, will serve as Vinfolio's retail fulfillment operation to support Vinfolio's growing retail wine sales. The company's 17,000 square-foot warehouse in San Francisco's Potrero Hill will be dedicated to Vinfolio's expanding full-service wine storage business.

) October 29, 2008 -- Vinfolio, the foremost fine wine and collector services company, today announced the launch of WinePrices.com, the most comprehensive resource for up-to-date wine price information online. Powered by Vinfolio, WinePrices.com is a free resource that offers users the ability to search wine auction price results and U.S. wine retail prices. WinePrices.com replaces the previously published Wine Price File, the definitive source of wine auction price data for over 15 years.

"Most wine collectors struggle finding up-to-date values of their collection," said Stephen Bachmann, Vinfolio founder and CEO. "Now with WinePrices.com, we are empowering wine collectors with a robust tool to support their wine investing and selling decisions."

) June 24, 2009 -- Wine Searcher, www.wine-searcher.com, released its API in partnership with two leading wine information and technology providers, CellarTracker and Cor.kz. This solution allows a combined user base of over 700,000 users to locate and price their favorite wines from anywhere and at anytime.

Wine Searcher, the world's biggest and most used wine search engine attracts over 9 million visitors to its website each year. In 2008, users made 32 million searches on its database of 3.7 million wine offers and viewed 55 million pages of wine information.

) November 19, 2008 -- CorkSavvy (www.corksavvy.com), the website where wine lovers get savvy, just launched a Wine Journal and Virtual Bottle Rack for Facebook. With CorkSavvy for Facebook, users can share notes on wines they've tasted or purchased with anyone across their social network.

Never Forget That Delicious Wine

) April 17, 2009 -- Premier provider of mobile "lifestyle" solutions, Drync, LLC today announced the release of a Free version of Drync-Wine, simplifying the way people research, remember, share, and purchase wine using their mobile device. Built initially for the iPhone, Drync-Wine is the only mobile wine application that scours multiple databases of nearly a million wine listings in real time to identify the exact wine you are drinking. Perfect for the wine novice and connoisseur alike, Drync-Wine delivers expert reviews, ratings, descriptions, and pricing. Users may snap a photo of the label, save the wine to their own virtual wine cellar, add their own tasting notes, and even purchase the wine all from their mobile phone.

) February 23, 2009 -- Wine Guardian® wine cellar cooling units are commercial grade climate control systems designed specifically for high-end residential wine cellars, institutional wine rooms, restaurants and commercial storage facilities.

) September 17, 2008 -- Wine Searcher, www.wine-searcher.com, participated in the International Wine Challenge Awards evening in London on 3rd September where over 850 guests attended to applaud the winners of the prestigious wine awards.

The International Wine Challenge launched 25 years ago is the world's largest wine competition. Held annually, it attracts entries from over 40 countries and this year had over 40,000 bottles of wine submitted for blind tasting.

) February 25, 2009 -- ClassicWines.com unveiled a significant upgrade to its popular wine search web site. Dubbed ClassicWines 2.0 the new site brings social networking and community tools to ClassicWines, the leading online wine search engine and Internet guide for wine, and brings new meaning to company's slogan of "Drink. Learn. Share."

"People with a desire to learn and experiment with wine now have a new place to gather, interact and meet with people who are passionate about wine and wine lifestyles," explained Mark Shay, Founder of ClassicWines.com. "The goal of this upgrade was to help our audience learn from each other, not just the experts."

The NYC Wine Report (http://www.NYCWineReport.com), a trusted voice in the international wine community for unbiased wine reviews and a local source for what wines to buy, how much to pay, and where to get them in NYC, announces the launch of the New York City Wine Club in partnership with Yorkshire Wines and Spirits. (PRWeb Aug 27, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2794184.htm

) October 6, 2009 -- CorkSavvy.com, a leading web site that offers educational resources and interactive tools to help users get savvy about wine, announces the launch today of a "White Label" E-Cellar--a free, customizable version of CorkSavvy's popular virtual wine cellar tool that allows users to quickly catalog and organize wines that they own, like, or wish to buy.

E-Cellar & Wine Journal

) May 3, 2009 -- The founders of Air Innovations, father and son Larry and Mike Wetzel, have spent most of their careers designing and manufacturing specialty air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. They also are both passionate about collecting fine wines. It became only a matter of time before they applied their expertise in both subjects to building a better wine cellar cooling system. The result was Wine Guardian, a commercial-grade unit sold in North America and Europe, first introduced by the company in 1998.

) September 18, 2008 -- What better occasion to enjoy a delicious bottle of wine than during a romantic dinner? Wine lovers who log into their CorkSavvy.com online accounts within the next two days are automatically entered to win a romantic dinner for two at the Union Square Café in New York City.

Union Square Café, located in Manhattan's East side, is renowned for its outstanding wine list. The American eatery was twice awarded The New York Times' three-star rating and also earned Zagat Survey's #1 ranking as New York's Most Popular Restaurant for an unprecedented eight years.

) June 15, 2009 -- Hello Vino takes the difficulty out of buying wine by delivering personalized recommendations to a iPhone or iPod Touch.

Hello Vino - Free iPhone/iTouch Application

The free app, available through iTunes, selects the perfect type of wine to go with a meal or occasion, or to give as a gift. Wine shoppers need only install the app, and answer a few simple questions to get a specific wine recommendation. Hello Vino offers beginning wine consumers an easy way to make an educated wine purchase both in the store and at a restaurant.

) November 25, 2008 -- Adon Kumar, the General Manager of Wine Searcher, www.wine-searcher.com, presented the results of the Online Mystery Shopping Study at the International Wine Clubs Association Conference in Vienna earlier this month.

A sample of 50 online wine retailers in the USA, UK and Europe were Mystery Shopped twice over an elapsed period of one month. The purpose of the study was to assess and benchmark a broad sample of online retailers and track retailer performance against online best practices. The study covered Wine Website design, E-commerce facility and retailer responsiveness to the mystery shoppers' requests for products and services.

With the wider application of plastic PET bottle in beverage and wine packaging, the quality of soft drinks, soda, wine and many other products depends more on the quality of their packages.

) April 22, 2009 -- Fast cars invade wine country, including a rare, black Enzo Ferrari. Exotic car enthusiasts will meet at the Infineon Raceway in Sonoma on May 3, for "Drive for a Cure" to raise awareness about epilepsy. Car lovers can see these incredible vehicles and stay for the Ferrari Challenge Race Event.

There are only nine black Enzo Ferraris in the world. Go to www.VinoPrimo.com to get a look at this fantastic car from every angle.

) November 3, 2009 -- The founders of Top Wines are wine lovers who have worked with the Australian wineries for many years and have decided to share their connections and expertise with Australian wine industry and enthusiasts via their new website. In addition to providing wines from many smaller family-owned vineyards which are only available in limited quantities and rarely through traditional channels, Top Wines arranges for special value pricing.

According to Chris F, Marketing Manager,
"We recognised an opportunity in the market to provide an online winery tour experience. Many people like to visit the wineries and its region to experience new wines from passionate boutique winemakers who lovingly care and handcraft beautiful wines."

) September 16, 2008 -- ClassicWines.com, one of the Internet's most popular wine portals, has reached a significant milestone: over 250,000 wines available online. Designed to meet consumer's increasing demand for unique and rare wines, the company is in the forefront of the wine industry's online evolution.

WineRAC

Fueling this dramatic expansion of online inventory is the company's proprietary WineRAC system which pulls product data from wine producers and merchants and offers consumers tools to find, explore, and purchase wines either from merchants or (thanks to the landmark 2005 supreme court case) directly from wineries.

Dalas-based Grape Ranch agrees to a deal with The Wine Frog of Fort Worth to distribute its popular Frozen Rose wine beverage throughout Texas.

) October 28, 2008 -- Wine Enthusiast Magazine has rated Rio Joe's Silver Cachaça "Very Good (85-89) Recommended." This is the highest rating Wine Enthusiast Magazine has ever awarded to any cachaça. We are very proud of this rating.

Rio Joe's Silver Cachaça continues to receive high ratings and awards from nationally and internationally recognized wine and spirits magazines, raters and competitions.

The San Francisco Wine Association website was specifically designed to share the elegance of superior wines while providing a channel to make and purchase wines featured in the online store.

) October 9, 2008 -- The Miami International Wine Fair is one of the largest wine fairs in America, expected to attract over 7,000 industry professionals and wine aficionados who will have the opportunity to taste nearly 1,200 wines from 15 countries encompassing 65,000 square feet of exhibit space. Scheduled for October 25 through 27, 2008 the Miami International Wine Fair ranks among the top five wine shows in the country and attracts a growing national trade audience in addition to Florida-based consumer and trade influencers.

Packaging material barrier quality for food, beverage and wine industries has direct influence on the quality of food, beverage and wine as well as the shelf-life of those products.

Wine celebrates life. And many times a special bottle of wine will make an ordinary occasion magical. That's the essence of the philosophy at Damian Rae Winery. To create captivating moments, any day of the year.

) October 23, 2009 -- Plumpepper, LLC just launched a new and revolutionary culinary website (http://www.plumpepper.com) that will bring together foodies across the world. Plumpepper.com is a culinary social networking site devoted to food and wine, and everything in between. Based out of Chicago, this website provides the most comprehensive yet simple and easy to use interface in a beautiful design.

) September 3, 2009 -- Big House wines, known for its criminally delicious Mediterranean wine blends, has launched a new website The Big House Website that captivates users with irreverent interactive features, engaging navigation tools, and liberal doses of good fun. Wine pairing tips, recipes, technical information, events, and downloads are all creatively displayed throughout the whimsical new website to actively engage the consumer in the Big House experience.

) November 18, 2008 -- ByTheDozen.com.au is a new Australian fine wine retailer offering a personal gift delivery service to Australian expats worldwide this Christmas. Their user friendly website allows customers to choose from an outstanding range of boutique Australian wines and Champagne. These are then sent as unique Christmas gifts to family and friends on their behalf.

By The Dozen Christmas gift ideas

) November 18, 2008 -- ByTheDozen.com.au is a new Australian fine wine retailer offering a personal gift delivery service to Australian expats worldwide this Christmas. Their user friendly website allows customers to choose from an outstanding range of boutique Australian wines and Champagne. These are then sent as unique Christmas gifts to family and friends on their behalf.

By The Dozen Christmas gift ideas

) December 2, 2008 -- Universally recognized as the new wine source for quality wines at low prices, The Accidental Wine Co. sells blemished label wines at discounts of 20-40% on their website at www.accidentalwine.com.

) December 15, 2008 -- One of America's top wine education organizations announced today it has published a set of three Walking Tours of San Francisco Wine Bars. Printable maps and venue descriptions can be found on-line at brucecasswinelab.com. The tours are self-guided, and conveniently arranged around colorful neighborhoods to enhance the social experience.

WineWeb.com announces the release of its iPhone web app component, which allows its hosted winery websites to display like a native application on these mobile devices. This mobile component integrates with WineWeb's content management and e-commerce services, so mobile users can interact online with the winery, including buying wine online, registering for wine clubs, purchasing event tickets, and using the newly-released social media tools. (PRWeb Aug 19, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2760024.htm

) October 28, 2008 -- A different kind of wine website made its official debut this month. Vino Primo, or www.VinoPrimo.com, is the "Everyday Wine Lover's Guide to the Vino Lifestyle."
Vino Primo doesn't sell wine. Instead, this new electronic magazine helps casual wine lovers navigate the sometimes complicated and intimidating world of wine with fun and humorous information. This e-zine rarely talks about how many points a wine scored at a particular competition. But it gives readers the inside scoop on everything fun about wine. Vino Primo tells readers about the "wine rules" on occasion, but also encourages readers to break those rules at every opportunity.

) April 1, 2009 -- Aytog, LLC announced today the launch of iTasteBeerandWine, a new downloadable application for your favorite smartphone. Available at www.iTasteBeerAndWine.com, the application allows the user to select a wine or beer to sample from a database of over 50,000 brands and varieties.

) June 1, 2009 -- With worldwide wine consumption at an all time high, wine appraisals are becoming quite common. Wine appraisal services are contracted by individuals, governmental entities, insurance companies and law firms for a number of reasons. Wine collections that have been compromised or damaged may require a wine appraisal, as an individual or insurance company may be seeking to know the replacement value. Governmental entities and private parties may contract a wine appraiser in situations where a wine collection is involved in a legal or tax issue. Lawyers contract with wine appraisers in legal cases involving issues of probate, taxation and marriage dissolution.

) October 15, 2008 -- eWinery Solutions, a market leading e-commerce software company dedicated exclusively to the wine industry announced today the release of eWinery's new wine allocation management software, which helps wineries manage the complexities of selling limited production, high demand wines to consumers, without having to pay any percentage of revenues for utilizing the software. These highly sought after, allocated wines often require consumers to request placement on waiting lists. Wine is then allocated and sold to customers based on criteria established by the winery. Historically, wineries have been faced with the complexity of managing scarce wine allocations to thousands of consumers.

) April 23, 2009 -- This complimentary research, taken from the extensive portfolio of just-drinks research covers Northern and Southern Hemisphere wine reviews, global market reviews of vodka, brandy and Cognac along with 25 management briefings. All of this research has been provided on an easy- to-use CD.