Wine Industry News

  • NY wine industry celebrates one of best-ever years

    (AP) — New York's wine industry is celebrating a good year, with an early harvest, superb quality, and numerous medals. The New York Wine and Grape Foundation says 17 new licenses were issued in 2012, bringing the number of wineries to 328 with nine more still pending. In international wine...
  • Pricing, M&A to dominate wine business in 2013

    (NBBJ) - Hot topics in the North Coast wine business in 2012 were rapid grape and bulk-wine inflation as bottle sales outstrip anticipated supply, an unexpectedly big, “perfect” harvest and a string of mergers and acquisitions. Dominating 2013 likely will be moderating supply pricing and acceler...
  • Moon phases and stag's bladders: wacky wine-making

    (AFP) - The sun is setting and the slopes of the Cote d'Or are soaking up the last few rays of the day. A waning moon has just appeared to the east. It is the ideal time for some of Burgundy's celebrated vines to be given a feed of a dung-based compound that has spent most of the last year fermen...
  • US: Napa County responds to climate plan critics

    (NVR) - Is Napa County’s Climate Action Plan fair? Members of agriculture and wine industry groups in the county raised this critical question Thursday during a meeting with the plan’s author, county Planning Director Hillary Gitelman, and Kirsty Shelton, who’s managing the plan for the cou...
  • Burgundy Drinkers Will Pay More as 2012 Production Drops

    (Bloomberg) - Despite losing as much as 40 percent of their grapes for the 2012 harvest, the vintners and merchants of Burgundy are smiling. In Burgundy, whose wines compose only about 3 percent of France’s total production, the wineries sell just about every drop they make, even in abundant ye...
  • Big Shake-Up at Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

    (WSJ) - Robert M. Parker Jr., widely regarded as the world's most powerful wine critic, has some far-reaching changes planned for his 34-year-old newsletter, the Wine Advocate. Mr. Parker intends to phase out the print version of the newsletter, which he built over the past several decades into one...
  • US: Agency regulates booze, smokes

    (Tennessean) - Deep in a secure laboratory just outside Washington sits the federal government’s heaviest smoker. It’s a half-ton hulk of a machine, all brushed aluminum and gasping smoke holes, like a retrofit of equipment used on an Industrial Revolution production line. It can smoke 20 cig...
  • Wine not heart-healthy for fatties

    (WAToday) - MANY believe a glass or two of wine is good for them, with its antioxidants working to protect the heart. But if you are carrying extra weight, drinking has no protective effect, new research has found. An obesity expert from London, Tim Lobstein, said findings that small amounts of a...

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