Wine Industry News
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(NacsOnline) - U.S. wine consumption grew 3% last year to reach 312.4 million 9-liter cases, according to The Beverage Information Group’s (BIG) recently released 2012 Wine Handbook. The group reports that 2011 was the 18th year of growth for the U.S. wine industry, as sweet reds and higher-end... -
(Wines&Vines) - In a bit of musical chairs, DFV Wines, the large wine company owned by the Indelicato family, is moving its bottling plant (and more) out of Reata Winery and into a leased building near the entrance to Napa County Airport. It will occupy 33,500 square feet of a recently built 107,000...Delicato to Move Bottling
August, 23, 2012 -
(SBWIRE)- Thanks to the online world, we are more linked, far well informed plus much more efficient when we are looking to purchase or lease a property, which is true for the most of the real estate buyers and sellers as well. Past gross sales facts, latest listings, digital tours, photographs as w...Wine Business Website Helps Realtors to Promote Vineyards and Wineries for Sale
August, 23, 2012 -
(AFP) - A European business group on Wednesday criticised Chinese calls to probe EU wine imports as "protectionist", as a dispute between the major trading partners threatened to escalate. The China Alcoholic Drinks Industry Association this week formally requested the government to investigate w...EU group slams protectionism in China wine row
August, 23, 2012 -
(Reuters) - South Africa is mulling retaliatory measures to protect its centuries-old wine industry and counter job losses caused by a British retailers' move to buy the product in bulk rather than in bottles, a trade official said. British retailers including Tesco and J Sainsbury are bottling t...S.Africa seeks steps to counter British bulk wine buy-official
August, 23, 2012 -
(DailyPress) - Since the introduction of screw caps in the wine industry, there has been a constant battle over which is more effective, corks or screw caps, and why. But one of the more interesting questions is how the average consumer reacts to the choice of these two closures. In the August 20...Wine Press: Corks or screw caps? Does it make a difference?
August, 23, 2012 -
(AP) — Most of the grapes in Glenn Warnebold's vineyard in Missouri's picturesque wine country are about two-thirds of their usual size. Others have been reduced to raisins by the drought that burned up many crops across the Midwest this summer. Yet Warnebold figures it could be a good year wit...US: Drought could produce good wine in Midwest
August, 23, 2012 -
(DailyMail) - Comedian Robin Williams is showing that the wine business is no laughing matter - he has put his Napa Valley vineyard in California on the market for $35 million (£22 million). The Mrs Doubtfire star, 61, is seemingly giving up on the wine making venture by selling the lavish propert...Robin Williams is selling his vineyard for a staggering $35 million
August, 22, 2012

