Wine Industry News

  • UK: ODDBINS WINE GUIDE FOR MAYORAL CANDIDATES

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - High street merchant Oddbins has created a wine guide for the London mayoral election. Seven wines have been chosen that sum up each of the mayoral candidates. For Boris Johnson, Oddbins has picked out a bottle of Diane de Belgrave Haut-Médoc Bordeaux. “Just like the c...
  • US: A troubling trend in teens drinking hand sanitizer

    (LATimes) - Medical experts warn parents to watch for danger signs of young people getting drunk on the over-the-counter cleansers, which have a high percentage of ethyl alcohol. Six teenagers have shown up in two San Fernando Valley emergency rooms in the last few months with alcohol poisoning afte...
  • UK: WINE PRODUCERS LOOK TO SMALLER MARKETS

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - Wine producers are looking to smaller markets like Canada for strong growth potential and better pricing, according to most recent Rabobank Wine Quarterly report.Canada is an attractive export market, at a time when they are in short supply. It is the sixth-largest wine impo...
  • US: Sonoma County adopts hillside vineyard restrictions

    (PressDemocrat) - New rules making it tougher to rip up forested hillsides to plant vineyards won qualified approval from the Sonoma County Board of Supervisor Tuesday. The stronger erosion prevention measures were unanimously approved by the five supervisors, but most acknowledged that the proce...
  • US: Wine Symposium Focus: Alternative Varieties

    (Wines&Vines) - The world’s lesser-known winegrape varieties will get a chance to take center stage as the focus of a symposium during this year’s annual conference of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture. Registration is now open for the conference scheduled June 18-22 in Portland, ...
  • US: Study examines economic impact of Washington wine

    (CBSNews) - A study released Tuesday shows that Washington state's wine industry has been a bright spot in an otherwise sour economy. The study commissioned by the Washington State Wine Commission, the industry's leading promotional group funded by member growers and wineries, shows Washington wi...
  • Top 10 wine consuming countries

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - Wine consumption across the world is expected to grow well into 2014, but will the traditional powerhouses head the leaders table? Italy was the top still light wine consuming country in 2010, however the balance is shifting. Statistics on still light wine drinking are a sol...
  • SABMILLER BREAKS RULES WITH INTERNAL SHAKE-UP

    (TheDrinksBusiness) - Mackay (pictured) will replace the current chairman Meyer Kahn, who has been at the helm of the brewing giant since it floated in 1999. Mackay will in turn be replaced by fellow South African Alan Clark, currently director of Europe, who will spend a year as chief operating ...

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