Wine news April 8, 2015

The Associated Press talks to Lettie Teague about her new book. "Wine writer Lettie Teague — known for her blunt, chatty style that demystifies the cult of the grape without diluting its allure — has once again taken issue with highfalutin attitudes about the wine world."

In the Sacramento Bee Mike Dunn profiles Bogle. "We’re talking a forest of 138 fermentation and storage tanks, six of them 32 feet tall and capable of holding 129,000 gallons of wine each; six massive Italian bladder presses, and a 200,000-square-foot structure with 80,000 oak barrels and room for 20,000 more."

Business Insider test drives the instant wine refresher.
 
Wines by Design has rolled out a Kansas City Royals wine reports Pitch.com."The way it works is that Wine by Design has the national licensing rights to wine for the NFL and Major League Baseball," Dickson told me. "I don't know how many markets they [Wine by Design] have wines in, but it's not more than 10 or 12. Every year they add one or two, so they're not doing a full rollout for every baseball team."
 
The Drinks Business on the top 10 wine brands.
 
Bloomberg on how California's drought impacts the wine business.
 
In Do Bianchi Italian wine blogger Maurizio Gily is absolved of wrongdoing in a defamation case.