Wine Industry News

  • UK: English wine helps Majestic profits sparkle

    (HeraldScotland) - Wine merchant Majestic posted a small rise in profits today after a year in which it said sales of English sparkling wine showed a significant increase. The retailer, which has plans to grow its 193-strong store estate to around 330 locations in the UK, posted pre-tax...
  • Tech-minded wine startups get snobby: They want Millennials

    (BizJournals) - Baby Boomers can't dominate the wine market forever, so startups like Uproot Wines are now chasing the Millennial market with a tech-centric and irreverent approach. The Sideways -esque generation of 40- and 50-something wine snobs may rule the wine market now, but a growing ...
  • French Cuisine: Foodies Fight to Protect the Term 'Restaurant'

    (ABCNews) - An increasing number of establishments in France are serving pre-made food to their customers. Old-school foodies want to put a stop to the practice with an initiative to apply the term "restaurant" only to places that serve fresh food made on site. Be it Boeuf Bourguignon, rack...
  • US: Wineries court gay customers

    (PressDemocrat) - Los Angeles couple Brian Chield and Bryan Hollingshead sat around a patio table Saturday sipping Rosso di Sonoma, a red blend from their host Petroni Vineyards, perched high over Sonoma Valley. For a warm weekend in Wine Country, the scene was hardly groundbreaking. But th...
  • US: Wineries increase in Ohio, Michigan

    (ToledoBlade) - Dustin Heineman gently cradled a tiny bunch of young grapes, examining a cluster that months from now will be harvested for one of his family’s 25 varieties of wine. That’s assuming, of course, that the fruit thrives. “Grapes are very temperamental,” sa...
  • Bernard Arnault still wealthiest wine owner in France

    (Decanter) -  Bernard Arnault of LVMH – owner of Hennessy, Moët et Chandon and Chateau Yquem – continues to head up the list of wealthiest wine owners in France, according to the second annual roundup published in Challenges magazine this week. His fortune is listed at &eu...
  • France condemns attack on Chinese wine students

    (Reuters) - France's interior minister has condemned as racist an assault on six Chinese students by drunken locals in the Bordeaux wine-producing region that left one seriously injured. The attack comes amid reports that wealthy Chinese tourists are being increasingly targeted by mugger...
  • Closer Look: China's Trade Gambit with EU Wine

    (Caixin) - The European Commission (EC) said on June 4 that it would impose a provisional 11.8 percent anti-dumping tariff on Chinese solar panels from June 6 to August 6. One day later, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced it would launch an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation o...

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