Wine Industry News

  • U.S. wine consumption continues to grow

    (CapitalPress) - Thirsty Americans polished off 297 million cases of table wine last year, according to the Wine Market Council’s annual report on U.S. Wine Consumer Trends. “This was 1.5 million more cases than the previous year,” council president John Gillespie told a p...
  • Château Cantemerle: The Fifth Growth That Nearly Wasn't

    (Wine-Searcher) - After a century spent sadly shrunken and neglected, insurance company money returns Château Cantemerle near its mid-1800s heights. It’s a pleasing scene to picture. The year is 1855, Bordeaux is still one of the leading ports of France, although its glory has faded ...
  • Bordeaux 2013: ‘Not the most difficult vintage’

    (TDB) - The trials of the 2013 vintage were not as great as years such as 1987 or 1991 according to Mouton’s managing director Philippe Dhalluin as he revealed the “likely” composition of the 2013 blend. Dhalluin was speaking at a tasting organised by the Institute of Masters of ...
  • Why Can’t You Find That Wine?

    (NYTimes) - Often plaintive and occasionally hostile, the missives arrive regularly by email, snail mail and phone: “You have an uncanny ability to discuss wines that are difficult if not impossible to find,” one California reader wrote in June. And this from a reader in New York: &ldq...
  • Why we've called time on wine o'clock ...

    (Independent) - Lucy Rocca set up Soberistas.com in a bid to put the sexy back into sobriety. She talks to Chrissie Russell about her struggle with alcohol. Lucy Rocca didn't think she had a drinking problem. "I never drank during the day," she explains. "I didn't drink spirits, just nice, expensi...
  • Mosel and Sonoma Meet in the Finger Lakes

    (Wines&Vines) - On Feb. 4, Paul Hobbs, winemaker and owner of Paul Hobbs Winery in Sebastopol, Calif., and Johannes Selbach, winemaker and owner of Weingut Selbach-Oster in Zeltingen, Germany, announced that they plan to establish a vineyard and start a winery on Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes...

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