Wine Industry News

  • Australian wine grape production at 5 yr low

    (Reuters) - Australian production of wine grapes is set to sink to a five-year low this year after two wet summers damaged vines in New South Wales and South Australia, data on Wednesday showed. Production in the 2011/12 season will total about 1.53 million tonnes, down 2 percent on last year, th...
  • Crisis-hit Italy Bets on Wine Industry: Entrepreneur

    (CRIEnglish) - Crisis-hit Italy will invest more in quality wine industry, a young entrepreneur who has been named by President Giorgio Napolitano as an "ambassador" of made-in-Italy in the world told Xinhua. "Italy's wine industry has a long tradition, but it has not been able to adequately pro...
  • US to review online marketing of beer, liquor and wine

    (KansasCity) - Twitter didn't exist the last time the Federal Trade Commission examined alcohol advertising, back in the last decade. Now hundreds of millions of tweets fly daily across the micro-messaging site, including an increasing number from wine, beer and liquor companies seeking market buzz...
  • Canada: BC Wine Region Matures

    (Wines&Vines) - A five-year adventure of cultivating a new wine-producing region on Canada’s West Coast has borne fruit, and the first wines are hitting store shelves. Fort Berens Estate Winery, based in the Fraser Canyon three hours north of Vancouver, hosted an official launch party Monday for t...
  • Red Wine 'Compound' Could Increase Lifespan

    (HuffingtonPost) - Hopes of developing anti-ageing drugs have been given a boost by new research involving an ingredient in red wine. Previous studies have shown that the plant compound resveratrol improves the health of mice fed a high-fat diet and increases their lifespan. Scientists have no...
  • Wine: What should the label disclose?

    (WashingtonPost) - Along with a sense of humor, wine should have integrity. Bonny Doon has both. On the back label of its 2011 Vin Gris de Cigare, right under the winery’s address — “Santa Cruz, CA, USA, EARTH” — I found this description: “Ingredients: 73% Grenache, 10% Mourvedre, 8% Gre...

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