Wine Industry News

  • Explaining the Aromas and Flavors of Wine

    (WSJ) - Wine often reveals a cornucopia of flavors. Watching a connoisseur identify these may induce a few sniggers, but a fine wine can boast several competing aromas, all jostling for attention in the glass. These can range from fruit (apple, lychee and plum) and berry (blackberry, gooseberry), to...
  • Wine exporters swoon at sight of Canada: Rabobank

    (BeverageDaily) - Faced with volume declines in core European export markets, exporters are reassessing the importance of smaller markets with better growth and pricing, and Canada is leading the way. Robobank reached this conclusion in its Q1 2012 Wine Quarterly trends and outlooks report, where it...
  • Wine industry eyes India’s growing market

    (WesternFarmPress) - Wine consumption in India is expected to grow year on year and could reach 2.4 million nine-liter cases by 2020, according to the IWSR India Wine Market Report.The wine market in India is currently small and consumption per capita is low compared to that of beer and spirits, but...
  • Do EU organic rules for wine leave glass half empty?

    (Reuters) - Italian vintners who avoid chemicals are disappointed with the new EU rules for labeling wines organic, saying the long-awaited criteria are too "lax". After lengthy debate, the European Commission agreed in February on a set of conditions which will allow a wine made from organic gra...
  • US: Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing Debuts

    (Wines&Vines) - A new organization, Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing Inc., chose Earth Day, April 22, 2012, to announce its formation as the first sustainable vineyard-certification program in the eastern United States. The wine and grape industries are playing a leadership role for the nonprofit...
  • The Music Behind the Wine

    (NYTimes) - It turns out that it’s not only chefs who are using music for inspiration: Whether it’s the polka beat of Mexican folk or the indie rock of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, tunes are also employed by winemakers in creating their latest vintages. A few of them wrote about the connection in r...
  • Italian-German Wine War in California

    (CN) - An Italian winery claims in Federal Court that a German wine distributor is relabeling and selling its wine on California's "gray market." Santa Margherita S.p.A. sued Unger Weine KG on copyright and trademark claims. Santa Margherita says that Terlato Wines is the authorized dist...

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