Wine Industry News

  • 18th-Century French chateau demolished 'by mistake'

    (NYDailyNews) - Imagine leaving your historic French chateau on a business trip – only to return and find it was demolished by mistake. That’s what Russian businessman Dmitry Stroskin claims happened to his 18th-century mansion in Yvrac, a town northeast of Bordeaux, but local residents of th...
  • Top 50 most powerful women in wine: 50 – 41

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - Which game-changing women hold the most power in the wine world today? The fact that there are enough powerful women working in wine to warrant a top 50 is a sign of how far the industry has come in a short space of time. Since Sarah Morphew Stephen became the first female Mas...
  • Winemaking Students Learn Overseas

    (Wines&Vines) - When Matt Cates returns from Spain today he’ll be wiser and maybe a bit jet-lagged. The Umpqua Community College student traveled overseas in September to learn the craft of making fine Tempranillo at Dominio de Cair, a new winery near the town of Aranda de Duero in Spain’s DO Ri...
  • Louis Roederer sells Bordeaux property to HK group

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - Louis Roederer has sold one of its Bordeaux properties, Château Bernadotte, to the Hong Kong-based King Power Group. The sale of the 40-hectare Crus Bourgeois estate was announced today (6 December). The estate was purchased by Louis Roederer along with Pichon Longueville ...
  • How Silicon Valley Has Transformed The Wine Industry

    (Melodika) - Silicon Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay area have long had a reputation for being both the center of high tech innovation and a hub of viticultural refinement. Now, these two seemingly disparate worlds are beginning to intertwine. The innovative spirit of Silicon Valley is turn...
  • Treasury Wine raises a glass to global travel

    (TheAustralian) - TREASURY Wine Estates is making a pitch at the duty-free traveller market, hiring three senior executives to lead a push into a sector long dominated by spirits. TWE managing director for global travel retail, Andrew Carter, said the company wanted to boost the presence of its w...
  • Country Life: Wine barrel laments

    (NVR) - Pity the poor wine barrel. A beautiful oak barrel is the keeper of the valley’s nectar one day; and, once used, too quickly sent to unknown exile. Used wine barrels are like nuclear waste — no one is really sure what to with them. New wine barrels cost a ton of money. As any winema...
  • Don’t Tax Our Wine Irish Cry as Budget Finds Austerity Threshold

    (BusinessWeek) - The Corkscrew Wine Merchants in Dublin did a week’s trade in one afternoon yesterday as shoppers made sure they beat a surprise increase in tax on alcohol. Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan said he would raise the levy on a bottle of wine by 1 euro ($1.30), or about 40 perc...

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