Wine Industry News

  • Craft Wine : What the Wine Industry Can Learn from Craft Beer

    (PalatePress) - The wine market is crowded. There are thousands of wineries jumping up and down screaming, ‘ME, ME, ME!!!’, all trying to tell a story about what makes them different. It’s a story that wine buyers and potential customers are getting bored of. It is not the top tier of produ...
  • Wine-O Adviser | Heard about the new Parker wine-rating system?

    (SeattleTimes) - MANY OF YOU, like me, have long followed the reviews of Robert Parker, arguably the most influential wine writer in the world. Parker's success has been built upon his 100-point rating scale, in which wines from around the world are given point scores as well as written descriptions...
  • Pouring New Life Into Light Beer, a $50 Billion Market

    (WashingtonPost) - At a beer industry summit last month, Ed McBrien, distribution chief for MillerCoors, compared himself to a typewriter salesman in an iPad age. McBrien was sketching plans to resurrect light beer, a $50 billion market battling to stay relevant as makers of craft beer, wine and spi...
  • How the EU Plans to Solve the UK’s Alcohol Crisis

    (Iaindale) - The UK wine industry has been struggling for decades to find a way to communicate its products to consumers. 70% of wine is sold in supermarkets and the good shoppers of Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda and Morrison’s can’t tell one Aussie Chardonnay from another, have no idea if Falanghina i...
  • US looks to expand agriculture exports to China

    (BusinessWeek) - China's fast-growing economy is helping to drive demand for U.S. agricultural products, offering a potential new market for American corn, wine and other goods, a U.S. official said Friday. Michael Scuse, an acting undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said that w...
  • Prices may drop at Bordeaux wine futures sale

    (AFP) - Global wine buyers converge on Bordeaux for the annual futures sale that opens Monday, with a hit-and-miss vintage seen as a chance to pull skyrocketing prices back down to Earth. This year the main organiser of the event, the Union of the Grands Crus (UGC), expects to welcome about 5,000 w...

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