Wine Industry News
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(TheIndependent) - Leading companies in the wine investment industry are looking to set up a regulatory body to combat an influx of bogus sellers and prevent company collapses. In the past two years, 50 wine investment companies have collapsed, potentially costing investors thousands, while the m... -
(CanberraTimes) - China cannot get enough of Australia's premium wines, according to a specialist exporter. Inland Trading Company principal Greg Corra, who is about to send his biggest wine consignment worth $US500,000 ($A487,000) to a supermarket chain in China, says although a difficult market, ...China thirsting for premium Aust wine
July, 08, 2012 -
(WatertownDailyTimes) - New Yorkers can hop across the Canadian border and bring back cases of wine while paying a nominal fee or no charge at all. Canadians, on the other hand, have made a habit of only sampling wine at vineyards here, not buying. And it’s not because New York wines taste bad. ...Leveling the winery field: U.S. lawmakers advocate repeal of Canadian wine tariffs
July, 08, 2012 -
(MedicalNewsToday) - Around seven percent of adults suffer from an intolerance to wine. This is the result of a survey presented by Peter Wigand and co-authors in the current edition of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztelb Int 2012; 109 (25): 437-44). The authors evaluated 948 questi...Some People Suffer Allergy-Like Symptoms After Drinking Wine
July, 07, 2012 -
(Food&Wine) - Every year, there is a flurry of headlines about the health benefits of wine. But can drinking wine really make a difference? Here, the news—very good news, indeed—from the latest studies. Note: The health benefits come from moderate wine consumption, defined by the American Heart ...8 Health Benefits of Drinking Wine
July, 06, 2012 -
(NYTimes) - Across many parts of wine-producing France, a lively debate is under way between partisans of two great vintages, 2009 and 2010. Some prefer the ripe, plump, charming 2009s, others the structured, sterner, more “classic” 2010s. But in one area, the southern part of the Rhône Valley,...Rising Stars of French Winemaking
July, 06, 2012 -
(WSJ) - AMERICA HAS NEVER been overly fond of its intellectuals. Ralph Waldo Emerson took note of this fact in a speech made at Harvard almost 200 years ago: "The mind of a country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Even today, anyone with a higher degree or a well-articulated belief ...Think While You Drink: In Defense of Wine Snobs
July, 06, 2012 -
(Wines&Vines) - Vineyard watchers fear this could be the year the voracious brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) enters local vineyards and orchards, potentially causing significant economic damage to the state’s grape crop. Since first being detected in the state in 2004, the bug—by now well estab...US: Oregon Winegrowers Raise Stink About Bug
July, 06, 2012

