Wine Industry News

  • Guide to Eco-Friendly Wines

    (Earth911) - Whether you’re a self-professed oenophile or just enjoy an occasional glass of red table wine with dinner, navigating the labels of wines that purport to be eco-friendly can be confusing: “100-percent organic,” “made with organic ingredients,” “natural” or “vegan-friendl...
  • Allergy-like symptoms after drinking wine

    (EurekAlert) - 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 Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztelb Int 2012; 109 (25): 437-44). The authors evaluated 948 questionnai...
  • BORDEAUX SLUMP HITS AUCTION FIGURES

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - The world’s five biggest auction houses have reported a 25% slump during the first half of 2012 as investors adopted a cautious approach to the big names and Chinese buyers shifted their focus towards Burgundy. Despite upbeat reports from many houses, Bloomberg reported that ...
  • US: TALKING URINAL TO STOP DRUNK DRIVERS

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - US authorities are trying to discourage drink drivers with target advertising: urinal deodorisers that “talk”. A total of 400 talking “urinal cakes” were distributed across Detroit as part of a trial to combat drunks from getting behind the wheel. Each device has a b...
  • English wine harvest 'not looking good', say winemakers

    (Decanter) - As England continues to suffer the wettest early summer since records began, winemakers are beginning to wonder if they are going to have any grapes to harvest at all. Rain has fallen across England more or less continuously since the beginning of June, and the Met Office has confirmed ...
  • California winemakers court Chinese buyers

    (LATimes) - With bottles ready for tasting, a group of Lodi wine producers waited anxiously recently for a delegation of monied businesspeople they hoped to impress. The vintners burst into applause when the group finally arrived, more than an hour late. The guests weren't Hollywood moguls or Sil...
  • The geology of wine

    (ChicagoTribune) - Wine descriptions are like monsters under the bed: they're there and they're not. Whenever I detail a wine to people at a tasting (or, indeed, in tasting notes that often accompany these columns) and say, for example, that the wine "smells and tastes of cherries," I right away ...

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