Wine Industry News

  • Brewer creates beer from his beard

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - A brewer in Oregon has created a beer that uses the yeast found in his beard. John Maier of Rogue Ales Brewery Company in Newport, Oregon and the company president, Brett Joyce, were apparently looking for a new source of yeast for their brews when a lab technician swabbed Mai...
  • Wine Industry Buoys Oregon Employment

    (Wines&Vines) - Oregon unemployment rates increased this summer. After bottoming out at 8.4% unemployment in May, August ended at a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.9%—but the wine industry bears a bright light for the state’s job market. While state-wide unemployment in Oregon climbed to 11.6% in ...
  • Objections to Scottish minimum pricing now Europe-wide

    (Decanter) - Spain, Italy, Portugal and France have joined Bulgaria in formally objecting to the Scottish government's legislation introducing minimum unit pricing on alcohol. Earlier this month Bulgaria objected to the European Commission about the plans for a minimum price of £0.50 per unit of al...
  • Chinese buys first Bordeaux classed growth

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - Château Bellefont-Belcier has become the first Bordeaux classed growth to be sold to a Chinese buyer. The 13-hectare St-Emilion grand cru estate is understood to have been bought by a Chinese industrialist who, according to French newspaper Sud-Ouest, employs 20,000 workers...
  • Sugar, Part II: What Does Acid Do?

    (PalatePress) - People who concern themselves with “consumer acceptability” of fruit know that sugar is a pretty good predictor of how consumers will feel about a given apple or grape or orange; the more sugar (that is, the higher the °Brix level), the more people like the fruit in question. Bu...
  • US: Three Biggest Wineries Take Half the Growth

    (Wines&Vines) - The Wine Industry Financial Symposium held Monday and Tuesday was itself an indication of the health of the recovering wine business. Fully 330 lenders, growers, wine companies and suppliers attended the conference, up from 260 last year. Vineyard executive David Freed started the sy...
  • Olympics-German wine 'Olympiad' accused of ambush marketing

    (Reuters) - A wine fair in southwest Germany has been ordered to stop using the Olympic name and a similar logo or face a hefty fine, with the German Olympic Committee accusing it of ambush marketing. The community of Langenlonsheim used the Olympic symbols, including a seven-ring logo as opposed...

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