Wine Industry News

  • Mexican grape crop appears light at start, good volume through June

    (ProduceNews) - The 2013 Mexican grape season is expected to start out a little later and a little lighter than normal, but with full crops, abundant promotional opportunities and normal timing from late May or early June through the end of June, according to most of the growers, shippers and marke...
  • California: North Coast grape growers optimistic on climate

    (PressDemocrat) - North Coast grape growers say they take climate change seriously, but they remain optimistic about finding ways to produce premium crops should temperatures rise as much as a new study suggests. The study, the latest in a decade of such research, predicts parts of the Rocky Mou...
  • US brewer offers $1m Bigfoot reward

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - US brewer Olympia Beer is offering US$1 million for “the safe return of “Bigfoot”. The year-long contest has started in “an effort to highlight the proud histories of both Bigfoot and Olympia Beer in the [US] Northwest”. The grand prize of $1m, wi...
  • Treasury Wine Seeks Cooler Land as Climate Shifts Season

    (Bloomberg) - Treasury Wine Estates Ltd. (TWE), the world’s second-largest listed wine company, is seeking out vineyards in cooler regions in preference to ones in warmer areas as climate change starts to shift growing seasons. The wine maker’s land acquisition teams are looking to b...
  • US: Single-Serve Format for Fine Wines

    (Wines&Vines) - Producers of fine wines are not getting their share of lucrative wine-by-the-glass programs in up-scale restaurants and hotels, contend Sunny Fraser and David Gordon. The Miami-based couple challenges that shortfall with “The Vini,” a sleek, screwcapped glass tube th...
  • Billionaire William Koch wins wine fight; jury deciding damages

    (HuffingtonPost) - A federal jury in New York City sided with a Florida billionaire Thursday, finding that a California businessman defrauded him by selling bottles of phony vintage wine. The jury in Manhattan returned its verdict and was then sent back to determine how much businessman Eric Gre...
  • Study: Wine regions may lose up to 73% of land by 2050

    (Decanter) - A new study released this week by researchers at the University of Texas suggests that areas suitable for viticulture will decrease between 25% and 73% in major wine producing regions by 2050 – directly impacting countless fine wine regions across the globe. The study, publish...
  • FRANCE: BORDEAUX ESTATE TO TURN CARBON EMISSIONS INTO TOOTHPASTE

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - Château Smith Haut Lafitte in Bordeaux is to turn its carbon emissions into toothpaste. Speaking to the drinks business at an en primuer tasting of the estate’s wines last week, co-owner Daniel Cathiard revealed details of the unusual plan. “Our aim is to ...

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