Wine Industry News

  • The Most Avid U.S. Wine Cities

    (Wine-Searcher) - Wine is the drink of choice in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, a new survey shows. Beer continues to be the no. 1 beverage in most of the nation’s major cities, no doubt buoyed by the craft beer movement. However, wine is king in the Big Apple and on the Wes...
  • Moët launches two Indian sparklers

    (TDB) - Champagne house Moët & Chandon has launched two sparkling wines made from grapes grown in Nashik in northwest India, onto the market. Launched last week at the Four Seasons hotel in Mumbai, Chandon Brut and Chandon Brut Rosé will have a retail price of 1,200 rupees (&pou...
  • South America counts cost of frost

    (TDB) - Producers on both sides of the Andes are reporting significant damage to their earliest flowering varieties as a result of the severe frosts which hit many regions last month. Among the Chilean vineyards belonging to Santa Rita Estates, which span Maipo, Colchagua and Casablanca, vineya...
  • Chateau LaFayette Reneau Sold in New York

    (Wines&Vines) - Dick and Betty Reno started Chateau LaFayette Reneau in 1985 on 140 acres of land with a spectacular view of Seneca Lake. Over the years, they added an inn and grew the winery to 10,000 cases. In anticipation of their retirement, the Renos recently sold the winery and inn to ...
  • Sauternes producer says tenth of 2013 harvest stolen

    (Decanter) - In a bizarre finale to a difficult year, a Sauternes wine producer has said it has lost a tenth of its normal grape haul after they were harvested overnight by someone else. Around EUR20,000 -worth of grapes were stripped from 13 rows of vines under the cover of darkness at Chatea...
  • California: Rack & Riddle expands to Healdsburg

    The warehouse where Rack & Riddle Custom Wine Services plans to open shop in Healdsburg stretched vast and empty this week as co-owners Bruce Lundquist and Rebecca Faust considered how they would lay out the space. The custom winemaking company, currently headquartered in Hopland, has si...
  • The Best Restaurants For Wine In The US

    (BusinessInsider) - Attention oenephiles: Here are the best restaurants for you. OpenTable.com recently came out with its list of the Top 100 Restaurants With the Most Notable Wine Lists , based on reviews by more than 5 million diners on OpenTable.com . Under the guidance of top sommelie...
  • Counterfeiters fake Burgundy wine worth $12,000 a bottle

    (CBSNews) - European authorities are pursuing a network of counterfeiters who passed off hundreds of bottles of swill as Romanee-Conti, often considered the best and most expensive wine in the world. The Burgundy vineyard sounded the alarm last year, suspecting that bottles with Romanee-Conti la...

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