Wine Industry News

  • Lafite ’98 at $9,000 Outperforms Liv-Ex Fine Wine Index

    (Bloomberg) - A case of 1998 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild sold for 5,800 pounds ($9,000) on Liv-ex in the past week, matching its mid-March level and outperforming the four percent drop in the Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 Index over the period. The transaction on Aug. 7 was the fourth sale at that level out...
  • Hitler wine leaves nasty aftertaste for human rights group

    (BrisbaneTimes) - The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre has called for a global boycott of an Italian company that sells wines featuring images of Adolf Hitler and Nazi slogans on its labels. "The Wiesenthal Centre denounces the marketing of these products and urges wine distributors in Italy...
  • Fingerprinting technique can authenticate Chinese rice wine

    (SecuringIndustry) - The profile of mineral elements in Chinese rice wine can be used to identify product made at specific wineries, say researchers. The technique could be used by manufacturers to authenticate their own product and identify counterfeit and adulterated products, according ...
  • Wine exports from Spain's Rioja region rise 7.74 pct

    (GlobalPost) - Wine exports from northern Spain's Rioja region rose 7.74 percent in the first six months of this year, compared with the same period in 2012, totaling 47.7 million liters (12.6 million gallons), Rioja's DOCa wine quality regulation agency said. By countries, the best customer for...
  • Philippines: Winemaker creates premium coconut wine

    (TheMalayMailOnline) - A Filipino winemaker is hoping to put coconut-based wines, which have long been consumed in parts of South Asia and Africa, on liquor store shelves around the world. Made from the sap of coconut palm flowers, Vino de Coco is slated to hit shelves this month in China, where...
  • Wine: An Eminent New Leader for a Cult Cabernet

    (WSJ) - THE NAPA WINE community has been speculating for months about the intentions of Frédéric Engerer, the peripatetic CEO of Château Latour, who has been spotted prowling the valley with an acquisitive gleam in his eyes. I'd played the guessing game myself, and tried t...
  • 2013 Wine Vintage: Central United States

    (Wines&Vines) - While most West Coast winegrowing regions bask in what looks to be another boom year, vineyard conditions east of the Rockies have been neither uniform nor uniformly favorable during the 2013 growing season. Colorado: Cooler than ever  It’s no surprise that mu...

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