Wine Industry News

  • The Perpetual Blend: Champagne’s Solera System

    (Terroirist) - For millennia, winemakers have been utilizing a unique system of maturation for Sherry, the famous fortified wine of the Jerez region of Spain. Called the solera system, the process involves removing wine for release from the last of a series of barrels that contains a blend of every...
  • California: Ceja Brothers Open Sonoma Brewery

    (Wines&Vines) - The Carneros Brewing Co. is the culmination of three years of work by the Ceja brothers, but it was the life-long goal of one brother in particular. In 1987, Jesus Ceja graduated from the brewing program at the University of California, Davis, while his two older brother...
  • Study tracks racial differences in alcohol consumption

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - A new study in the US has tracked the differences between black and white adolescent girls with regard to the types of alcohol consumed. The research, undertaken by professors at several universities, claimed to show that black and white girls showed significantly differe...
  • Invest in wine without drinking the profits

    (MarketWatch) - Nearly everyone who’s enjoyed a good glass of Chardonnay (or better yet, visited the vineyard that produced it) has fantasized about going into the wine business. After all, not only is wine one of life’s great pleasures, it’s also an increasingly marketable commod...
  • VineSleuth metrics validate expert tasters

    (Examiner) - In the course of developing software for predicting consumer wine preferences, Houston, Texas-based start up VineSleuth is shedding new light on the abilities of expert wine tasters and the validity of blind tasting assessments. Contrary to popular belief, the company’s Vine...
  • Wine: Russian River Valley AVA turns 30

    (MercuryNews) - A few decades ago, when Joseph Swan Vineyards owner and winemaker Rod Berglund used to travel the country promoting Russian River Valley pinot noir, his sales meetings sounded more like geography lessons. "No one cared or knew where we were," recalls Berglund, a founding member o...

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