The merger of the Cantina Sociale di Mombaruzzo (Asti province) and the Cantina Terre di Ricaldone (Alessandria province) has created the largest winery in Piemont.

Eleven young male and five female wine producers from the Mosel region in Germany have banded together in the MoselJünger association (young Mosel producers), and will be presenting their wines for the first time at the forthcoming ProWein trade show in Düsseldorf.

Got a couple nice mentions this week from some folks who blog about wine blogs and web sites, and sometimes they even blog about blogs that blog about wine blogs and web sites... First up, Tom Wark in his Fermentation...

I just met two of the coolest guys in the wine business. They founded a company you have probably never heard of. And they throw great events, with some top-shelf châteaus and domaines from France. Laurens Delpech and Philippe Capdouze founded a company called FICOFI in 1990...

In Germany, the Verein geprüfter Weinfachberater und Sommeliers (VWS, association of state-certified wine trade specialists and sommeliers) has been founded...

Amy Mumma, who founded and operates the World of Wine program at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, is conducting a survey of wine lovers on their impressions of various wine regions...

It seems viticulture in the Valais region in Switzerland was not founded by the Romans after all - latest research shows it is several centuries older...

Felipe Calderón stresses importance of improved U.S.-Mexico labor relations in speech at Sonoma winery founded by Mexican immigrants...

Matt Loso, who founded his eponymous winery Matthews Cellars in 1993, is selling his interest in the Woodinville, Wash., operation to his financial partners...

Now you don't have to finish a bottle of wine the day you open it -- or feel guity about consuming the whole bottle in one evening. Partners Gordon Uhlmann and Wendy Van Dyck, formerly a dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, have founded...