Wine Industry News

  • Reinventing Spanish wine

    (IrishTimes) - Telmo Rodriguez revolutionised Spanish wine by using his country’s old, forgotten grape varieties and making the stunning wines we have come to love. Telmo Rodriguez has played as large a part as anyone in all of the good things that have happened to Spanish wine over the pa...
  • US: New AVAs won't confuse consumers, insist winemakers

    (Decanter) - Wine producers in the newly-created American Viticultural Areas of Moon Mountain and Ballard Canyon have insisted the new sub-appellations will help consumers, not confuse them. This week, before succumbing to the US Government shutdown, the US Tax & Trade Bureau approved four...
  • Viansa Winery snapped up by Vintage Wine Estates

    (PD) - Vintage Wine Estates, the fast-growing Santa Rosa wine company, announced a deal late Thursday to buy Viansa Winery and Marketplace, located at the southern gateway to Sonoma's Wine Country. “They have a tremendous hospitality business, and a tremendous draw being so close to Sa...
  • EU: Tobacco giant spent €1.5mn to wine and dine MEPs

    (EUObserver) - Tobacco giant Philip Morris International (PMI) is said to have spent €1.5 million on lunches and dinners in an effort to woo MEPs into weakening the revised EU legislation on tobacco products up for a vote at the next Strasbourg plenary. The figure, unveiled on Thursday (...
  • Trip Advisor's top 10 American wine tours

    (FoxNews) - These travelers know their wine. One of the internet's most popular travel sites, TripAdvisor, has compiled a list of the top 10 wine destinations based on user reviews and opinions. Each of these outstanding tours offer the opportunity for wine aficionados and novice tasters alike ...
  • Apartment for wine lovers unveiled in Tokyo

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - A new wine apartment with a temperature and humidity-controlled basement that can hold 10,000 bottles of wine is now available to rent in Tokyo. The 18-unit, 10-floor apartment block, in Tokyo’s Shibuya district, has been designed “for wine connoisseurs who hav...
  • Constellation Brands' wine sales weaker than expected

    (Decanter) - Beer has boosted half-year profits for Constellation Brands, but the firm's wine business had a mixed six months. Wine drinkers in the US are continuing to trade up to higher-priced brands, but industry giant Constellation Brands sold less than it expected in the first half of i...

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