Wine Industry News

  • Keeping Sheep in Vineyards After Bud Break

    (Wines&Vines) - The Napa Valley Grapegrowers held its seventh annual Organic Winegrowing Conference on July 25, attracting growers and suppliers from far beyond the Napa Valley to discuss the latest findings, products and practices for sustainable and organic grapegrowing. The event was held...
  • UPDATE 2-China agrees to talks on French wine dispute, EU says

    (Reuters) - China has agreed to discuss dropping its inquiry into whether Europe is dumping wine, the EU's trade chief said on Monday, after EU and Chinese officials made a deal to avoid tariffs on solar panels from China. After resolving their biggest trade dispute yet, Beijing and Brussels wil...
  • China's Communists warn cadres: No wine at lunch

    (AP) - China's Communist Party has disciplined or scolded several officials for holding lavish wedding banquets, drinking wine at lunch and other extravagances as it tries to show progress on a frugality campaign aimed at addressing public anger. The official Xinhua News Agency said late Monday th...
  • France: Storms wreak havoc across the Medoc

    (Decanter) - Strong winds and heavy rainfall over the weekend wreaked devastation across much of the Medoc with Pauillac being the worst affected commune. The adverse weather conditions, between 11pm on Friday night and 2am Saturday morning, saw wind speeds reach up to 165km/hour and 60mm of ...
  • US: Feds target alcohol on social media

    (NBBJ) - The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau recently unveiled new guidelines for how wineries, distilleries and breweries can market themselves and their products on social media, making the formal distinction that all activity on social media for such businesses is a form of advertis...
  • Burgundy Hail Damage May Cut Vintage by 4 Million Bottles

    (Bloomberg) - The damage to Burgundy’s wine region from hail storms that pounded vineyards in villages including Pommard and Volnay last week may cut the 2013 vintage by as many as 4 million bottles, regional council estimates show. Hail, floods and high winds damaged 1,350 hectares (3,336...
  • High-tech corkscrew takes wine from uncorked bottle

    (BostonGlobe) - The Coravin Wine Access System , set to go on sale today at the company’s website, is built of stainless steel and aluminum. It looks like NASA’s idea of a corkscrew. Only instead of a screw, there’s a Teflon-coated needle that easily pierces the cork. The d...
  • China agrees to talks on French wine dispute, EU says

    (Reuters) - China and the European Union have agreed there is a "window for discussions" to try to resolve accusations that Europe is dumping wine in China, the EU's trade chief said on Monday. The agreement is part of a deal announced at the weekend to defuse a row over dumping of Chinese ...

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