Wine Industry News

  • China's Fine Wine Counteroffensive

    (BusinessWeek) - On the outskirts of Yinchuan, a sleepy provincial capital near the Gobi Desert, workers put the finishing touches on Château Changyu Moser XV, a vast building with white stone walls and black-tiled mansard and domed roofs. If it weren’t for the cast-metal statues of Chinese lions...
  • Why vintners avoid organic winemaking

    (Philly) - Buzz: Hey Marnie, I saw a wine bottle in the store yesterday that said it was made from organic grapes. Why not call it organic wine? Marnie: Because they mean different things, Buzz. Grapes grown naturally, without chemicals like fertilizers and pesticides, have been shown to make bet...
  • Amazon Gets Into Wine

    (WineIndustryInsight) - Amazon is getting back into the wine business in time for this year’s holidays, according to Washington State sources close to the mega-online retailer who spoke to Wine Industry Insight on condition of anonymity. Indeed, Napa and Sonoma County vintners who attended meet...
  • Bodegas Bretón for sale

    (Decanter) - Bodegas Bretón in Navarrete, Rioja is up for sale after a difficult few years’ trading. The economic downturn started to bite in 2008, and it is reported that a group of businessmen from Aragón showed interest and offered to sell off the stocks of wine already in the bodega. Thes...
  • Drappier first in Champagne to use egg-shaped oak fermenter

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - Drappier has become the first Champagne house to ferment its wines in an egg-shaped oak container, despite losing 75% of its crop this year. Called the Ovum, the fermentor, inspired by Nomblot’s concrete egg, is made by Taransaud and costs around €30,000. According to...
  • Raise a glass! Women winemakers winning success

    (CBSNews) - In 1978, the first vintage that Cathy Corison made wine, she could count on one hand the number of women she knew of doing the same kind of work in the cellars of the Napa Valley. Without using all her fingers. Nearly 35 years later, Corison needs a lot more fingers. Winemaking remain...
  • OREGON PART 2: ONE DAY IN WILLAMETTE VALLEY

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - Willamette Valley is not one road of continuous wineries. You can stretch from the northern Chehalem Mountain AVA, south to Ribbon Ridge, west to the Yamhill-Carlton, south again to the McMinnville AVA or east to the Dundee Hills or to the southern-most Eola-Amity Hills. You wo...

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