Wine Industry News

  • Is it OK to let the kids try wine?

    (HeraldOnline) - When my son James was 10 months old, he was baptized into my love of wine. The ceremony took place in Bordeaux, and I performed it myself, rubbing a small amount of 2000 Château Pétrus on his gums. Yes, the kid started well. Since the age of 4, he has been allowed to dip his fi...
  • US: Nurturing Iowa’s wine industry

    (TheGazette) - Only a decade or so ago, the idea of an Iowa wine industry seemed far-fetched. Today, there are about 300 vineyards and 100 wineries in the state. In the past 10 years, the number of Iowa wineries has quintupled. Iowa’s wine production has grown from about 50,000 gallons to 350,0...
  • SecondMarket Acts to Offset Facebook Fees Selling Wine, Art

    (BusinessWeek) - All good things must come to an end, and so it is with SecondMarket Inc.’s four-year run as the biggest private market for buyers and sellers of Facebook Inc. (FB) (FB) shares. The initial public offering Facebook has planned for today forced an end to the private trading, whic...
  • Greek winemakers see crisis as glass half-full

    (Reuters) - Greek winemakers are not pricing their wares in drachmas - yet. The winemakers, visiting New York as part of an international promotional tour, doubted Athens would leave the euro-zone even after Fitch Ratings Agency downgraded Greece's sovereign debt on Thursday, calling the country'...
  • The Bitter Economics of Sweet Wines

    (WSJ) - It was raining as I approached Barsac, the small village at the heart of France's sweet-winemaking region. Navigating my car along its tiny back roads, I had long since given up on my GPS, which insisted I had "reached my destination," though I was clearly still far from where I was supposed...
  • Shipwreck Champagne to be auctioned

    (Decanter) - A cache of 200-year-old bottles of Champagne discovered at the bottom the Baltic is to be auctioned next month. Four bottles of Veuve Clicquot, six bottles from the now-defunct Champagne house Juglar, and one Heidsieck & Co go under the hammer at Mariehamn on 8 June. Mariehamn is th...

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