Wine Industry News

  • Minnesota wine-making taking off with advent of cold-tolerant grapes

    (TwinCities) - Not so long ago, Minnesota had no wine-making industry. It sure does now, with 40 wineries in the state -- double the number from 2007 -- along with scores of picturesque vineyards, and more opening each year. The rapid growth of Minnesota's wine-making was clear this week at th...
  • US: Wine futures auction raises $3.04 million

    (NapaValleyRegister) - Two of the top bidders at Saturday’s Premiere Napa Valley wine trade auction together bought more than two dozen lots, and each spent more than $230,000 buying futures of Napa Valley wines. The auction raised $3.04 million, slightly less than the $3.1 million it raised last ...
  • China’s largest local brand goes global

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - COFCO is planning to sell globally-sourced wine under its local wine brand Great Wall, as well as add to the group’s international investments with an Australian winery. Speaking to the drinks business earlier this month, senior manager for COFCO Wines & Spirits, Shu Yu, sai...
  • Read and drink at your own risk...

    (NWWB) - In 2003, South Africa’s Medical Research Council not only reported that alcohol abuse costs South Africa at least 9 billion rand a year, but that at least 50% of all road accidents and murders, as well as more than 60% of hospital trauma, are as a direct result of intoxicated individuals ...
  • Virus that causes grapevine red blotch disease identified

    (Phys) - The virus is of particular concern to wine grape growers, whose grapes must reach a certain sugar content level before they are suitable for winemaking. "The most urgent research need now is to determine how the virus spreads," said Deborah Golino, a Cooperative Extension plant disease s...
  • Wine industry leading way on climate adaptation

    (ABCNews) - A study has concluded many McLaren Vale wine producers are leading the world in preparing for future climate change. It compared the region on Adelaide's southern outskirts with a French wine region, Roussillon, because of their climatic similarities. Co-author and Adelaide Univers...
  • China’s looking to take over another industry—wine

    (TheGlobeandMail) - The chateau seems to say you’re in France, and so do the roses and grapevines. But you’re not even close. You’re in a vineyard in Miyun County, near Beijing, that is being tended by Chinese workers. If the centuries-old London-based wine merchant Berry Bros. & Rudd is ri...
  • Canada: BC announces major changes to liquor laws

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - The government of British Columbia (BC) has announced a raft of major reforms to the Canadian province’s liquor licensing laws. The new changes, announced earlier this month, are expected to make it easier for small and medium-sized BC breweries, wineries and distilleries get...

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