Wine Industry News

  • France: A Good Year for White Burgundy at a Good Price

    (WSJ) - Every time a great vintage is declared, it's always a mixture of good and bad news. Bad because the best wines can be scarce and the prices often high. Good because even the "lesser" wines are likely improved—and also well-priced. This column actually contains only good news: It's about th...
  • Bordeaux Châteaus Say They'll Lower Prices, But How Much?

    (WineSpectator) - After Americans passed on the 2010s, the first-growths are hinting that they'll drop prices substantially.Wine professionals from around the world have descended upon Bordeaux for the annual tastings of the new vintage. This is Bordeaux’s moment to dazzle, with Michelin-starred c...
  • BEER TRENDS: Brewers rolling out the barrel for fine, aged beers

    (WashingtonPost) - Fine wine is said to improve with barrel aging. So why not fine beer? That’s the thinking behind the emerging craft beer trend of aging brews in the barrel to give them more complexity. “There’s something extra about the flavor,” says Dougal Sharp, master brewer and owne...
  • US: Tech Maven Decries Wine's Innovation Problem

    (Wines&Vines) - Tim Bucher, a tech maven looking to change the way wine is sold, said the wine industry has an innovation problem. Not in making wine, but in selling it. Bucher, who addressed a group of Sonoma State University business school students and professionals at the school’s annual mixer...
  • Spain: Sogrape buys Bodegas LAN

    (Decanter) - In the first major takeover of a Spanish wine business by a Portuguese rival, Portugal’s Sogrape has acquired Rioja-based Bodegas LAN from its private equity owner for an undisclosed sum.The deal with Spanish investment group Mercapital includes Fuenmayor-based LAN’s main operations...
  • US: The Governor and The Donald Team Up for Wine

    (WineSpectator) - Though even mighty California struggles to gain a foothold in the Chinese wine market (not if Yao Ming has anything to say about it), Virginia is already on the ground in Shanghai: "We did this little deal, 7,000 bottles of Barboursville wine going to this one province in China," G...

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