Wine Industry News

  • Tbilisi's Soft Power of Wine, Smiles and Tourism

    (TheMoscowTimes) - Nervousness was in the air the other afternoon when my S7 Airbus, packed with Russian tourists, touched down at Tbilisi's international airport. The tourists walked down a sparkling glass corridor to a terminal that Russian bombs narrowly missed four years earlier during the war w...
  • UK lawmaker splashes out on English sparkling wine

    (Reuters) - Controversial former Conservative Party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft on Wednesday uncorked plans to tap into Britain's burgeoning sparkling wine industry. The multi-millionaire member of Britain's upper house of parliament aims to produce 400,000 bottles a year from vineyards in souther...
  • New World rises to the challenge of Europe's poor wine harvest

    (Reuters) - North American winemakers are having a near perfect harvest this year in stark contrast to their European counterparts, who have suffered from bad timing and worse weather. In Portugal some vineyards are reporting yields down 40 percent and in parts of Burgundy in France hail storms h...
  • Wine glut nearing an end: analysts

    (ABC) - A new report on the international wine market gives grape growers and wine makers signs of hope that the global glut may be ending. Rabobank's latest wine quarterly for the three months to October says a massive global oversupply of wine between 2004-10, that depressed prices and led many...
  • USDA Grants Benefit California Wine

    (Wines&Vines) - In spite of uncertainty about future agriculture programs due to Congressional failure to pass the 2012 Farm Bill, the California State Board of Food and Agriculture’s October meeting in Sacramento focused on the success of California projects that have benefitted from the U.S. Dep...
  • Legend Cellars hit by $2.7m wine theft

    (Decanter) - A former employee of wine storage business Legend Cellars is accused of stealing US$2.7m-worth of wine from private clients' lockers. George Osumi, who is the father of Legend Cellars' current president, Scott Osumi, attempted to cover his tracks by replacing the stolen wines with 'much...
  • Top 10 spirits brands

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - Which spirits brands are the most popular in the world? Jack Daniel's is the fifth most popular spiritIn spite of a global recession millions of cases of spirits are still sold around the world every year. Whether in a cocktail, a mixer or straight-up, people enjoy their ...

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