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Oregonlive.com /.- A woman who says she badly hurt her foot when a bottle of wine fell from a bag she was loading into her car is suing Albertsons for $8.2 million — claiming an employee improperly placed the wine in a plastic bag that ripped. According to a suit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court this week by Jewel Strite: Strite bought a 1.5-liter bottle of Barefoot Chardonnay at the Central Point Albertsons on Oct. 1, 2012, at about…

El Mercurio.cl/.- Nuevas cepas y vinos, tierras y operaciones productivas. Estas son las apuestas del plan de expansión definido por Emiliana, viña de la familia Guilisasti, con miras a fortalecer su presencia en el mercado vitivinícola como la mayor exportadora y productora de vino orgánico del país. Para ello, indicó el gerente general José Guilisasti, la compañía invertirá US$ 14 millones de aquí a 2015. De esos, US$ 7 millones ya fueron destinados para adquirir hace unas semanas 150 hectáreas…

Decanter.com/.- Bob Sessions, regarded as one of California’s pioneer winemakers for his work at Hanzell Vineyards and his role in setting Stag’s Leap Cellars on the track to Judgement of Paris fame, has died aged 82. Sessions died at his home surrounded by family on Tuesday 13 May, following a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He will be best remembered in the wine world for producing and overseeing close to 30 years of vintages at Hanzell Vineyards from 1973 to…

Decanter.com/.- More than 50 protestors who destroyed a field of genetically modified grapevines being trialled in Eastern France have had their convictions quashed, to the annoyance of the country’s national research body. A court of appeal in Colmar this week repealed the convictions of the 54 protesters, ruling that the open-air crop trial was illegal because authorities did not properly assess the risk to the local environment. A gang of 62 protesters were initially convicted of having ransacked the government-run…