Wine Industry News

  • US: On-trade loses wine share, but consumption up

    (Just-Drinks) - Off-trade sales of US wine last year continued to eat into the on-trade as overall consumption increased for the 19th straight year, new figures have shown. The US wine industry grew 1.9% to 318.0m nine-litre cases in 2012, according to the Beverage Information Group...
  • A Skeptic Sidles Up to the Wine-Bar Boom

    (WSJ) - WHY DO PEOPLE love wine bars so much? A single-beverage bar where the food is tiny and the tables smaller still is an arrangement whose appeal is a bit of a mystery to me. Yet I realize mine is a minority point of view, since the number of wine bars all over the world just keeps growi...
  • Treasury Wine CEO to Leave After A$160 Million Writedown

    (Bloomberg) - Treasury Wine Estates Ltd. (TWE), the world’s second-largest publicly traded wine maker, said Chief Executive Officer David Dearie will leave the company immediately after writedowns to destroy out-of-date inventory. The company “needs a leader with a stronger operation...
  • Weather makes for sweet grapes, early harvest at wineries

    (KMTR) - Some wine critics have said that this year’s early grape harvest in Oregon might produce some of the best wine this year. Grape gurus like Amanda Cihler, the vineyard manager at Sweet Cheeks Winery, agree that Oregon’s wineries have a tasty crop to work with. “We're...
  • Delayed Champagne Harvest Gets Go-Ahead

    (Wine-Searcher) - Grape pickers will head out into the vineyards of   Champagne   on September 24 to begin the 2013 harvest – almost two weeks later than usual. From Tuesday, growers in the Côte des Bar area have the official go-ahead to harvest their grapes, with t...
  • Arizona Wine Growers: 'People are bringing in some beautiful fruit'

    (DailyJournal) - Southern Arizona winemakers have started harvesting their red wine grapes after waiting out heavy late monsoon rains that threatened to kill the fruit's sugar levels and wreak havoc with bunch rot. Surprisingly, very little fruit was lost to rot, vineyard managers said. ...
  • Time for Treasury to leave sour grapes behind

    (BrisbaneTimes) - A 25-year veteran of the beverage, hospitality and wine and spirits industries, is how David Dearie was described by the then Foster’s Group chairman Ian Johnston in late 2010 when the brewer was demerged to create Treasury Wine Estates. Those were the good old days....
  • US: Home moonshiners sip quietly under the radar in Dallas area

    (DallasNews) - A modern-day moonshiner holds a glass jar of homemade absinthe up to the sunlight, illuminating the potent liquor’s green color. A shiny copper distilling unit — a still — sits on his kitchen counter next to the sink. It was crafted in Portugal and looks more l...

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