Wine Industry News

  • AUS: Treasury Wine gets $31.5m in cash

    (NineMSN) - Treasury Wine Estates, the wine business formerly owned by Foster's, will receive a $31.5 million payment from the brewer to complete an IT overhaul. Foster's had agreed to install a new core operating IT system for Treasury Wine in May 2011, but has since been bought by Anglo-South A...
  • Bordeaux 2011: growing confidence in quality

    (Decanter) - As En Primeur week gets into its first full day there is growing confidence that the vintage is a good deal better than expected.Most winemakers and critics agree that quality is mixed: those properties with the money and manpower to work the vineyards, and practice strict sorting once ...
  • Vineyard Plantings Increase on Red Mountain

    (Wines&Vines) - While few winegrowers have been planting in California during the past five years, it’s a different story in Washington’s Red Mountain appellation. The American Viticultural Area, arguably Washington’s best known, has numerous vineyards being planted and planned. At present, ab...
  • BERGER: What's a cult wine?

    (PressDemocrat) - Have you got $100 for a bottle of wine? Not many people do, and yet some of these wines sell out quickly, and for a lot more money than $100 a bottle. The fact that such wines are popular these days prompted me to look into the category. So I called a wine snob. He declined t...
  • China: We Love NY Wine

    (13WHAM) - China is a notoriously difficult market to crack into. Yet representatives from Shanghai are in the Finger Lakes Region with an offer- if we build it will you come? “This is a very good opportunity, a first-time ever opportunity,” says Jinshui Zhang of NYS Small Business Developme...
  • New Nespresso limited edition coffee draws on wine-making technique

    (Nestle) - Nestlé’s premium portioned coffee brand Nespresso has developed a technique similar to that used to produce fine wine, to create its new limited edition Grand Cru coffee Naora. Specially selected Colombian Castillo coffee bean ‘cherries’ are left to mature on the plant until the...
  • US: Fight to put wine in N.Y. supermarkets continues

    (TheIthacaJournal) - The wine-in-supermarkets lobby, which has pushed millions of dollars into the effort to rewrite laws prohibiting the sale of wine in food stores, has slowed to a crawl this year, subdued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's opposition to the change. In recent years, upstate supermarket cha...
  • New York's Finger Lakes: The Next Great Wine Region in America?

    (TheAtlantic) - At a time when the local food movement has inspired many consumers across the nation to, for the first time, consider the wines being made in their own backyards, no up-and-coming domestic region has received as much serious attention as the Finger Lakes of upstate New York. To be sp...

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