Wine Industry News

  • Champagne growing season 'worst in decades'

    (Decanter) - Champagne has had the worst growing season for several decades and the prospects for the 2012 harvest look increasingly bleak. Even with improved weather in the run-up to harvest, expected to start around 20 September, yields will be significantly down on recent years with frost, hail, ...
  • More Americans Drink Beer Than Wine: Report

    (HuffingtonPost) - Which alcoholic beverage is preferred more: Beer, or wine? According to a new Gallup report, Americans on a whole are more likely to opt for a cold one. However, it might be a generational -- and gender-based -- preference. People ages 55 and older are more likely to choose ...
  • Crop Forcing Improves Winegrape Quality

    (Wines&Vines) - Information gleaned from a “crop forcing” vineyard trial in Fresno shows good promise for improving winegrape quality from the San Joaquin Valley and other warm climates by managing vines to shift the grape-ripening period from hot summer months to cooler months later in the grow...
  • The Unique Charms of 'Miscellaneous Wines'

    (WSJ) - MOST WINE LISTS are organized according to popular regions or grapes, although an additional category is often tacked on at the end. This is where wines that won't easily fit in one place or another are assigned—a category that's invariably and, some might say, ignominiously entitled "Mis...
  • Harvest 2012: Field Notes from Napa Valley Winemakers

    (Patch) - The Napa Valley Vintners, a nonprofit trade group representing more than 430 Napa Valley wineries, asked some of its winemaker members to tell us how things are looking in the vineyards as harvest 2012 gets underway. This is the 150th anniversary at Schramsberg. We look forward to writi...
  • Treasury Wine's profit jumps, but challenges ahead

    (MarketWatch) - One of the world's largest listed wine producers Treasury Wine Estates Ltd. said Friday annual net profit jumped 40% as it withdraws from the heavy discounting segment of the U.K. market and cuts costs. Treasury's portfolio includes brands such as Beringer, Wolf Blass, Rosemount, ...
  • Australia's Treasury Wine sees slower 2013; focus on top brands

    (Reuters) - Australia's Treasury Wine Estates, the world's second-largest wine firm, posted full-year profit above analysts' forecasts, but cautioned growth will slow in 2013 as it builds inventory of premium wines for future years. Shares of Treasury Wine jumped 5 percent to a three-month high a...

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