Wine Industry News

  • Can wine become an American habit? (Fortune, 1934)

    (CNNMoney) - Can wine become a national habit? Several people, not altogether disinterestedly, have set out to make it one. But even in the world's greatest grape-growing country, there are many obstacles. Fine sleet beat a painful tattoo against the windows of the Manhattan apartment in which Mr. P...
  • Alcohol Marketers are Turning to Social Media

    (Thenextweb) - Under the watch of the Federal Trade Commission, alcohol advertising has become a legal minefield. Backed by statistical analysis correlating the influence of different mediums on different age groups, television spots and print advertisements are subject to a breadth of restrictions ...
  • Greek winemakers keep glass half full

    (IOL) - At a first glance, the crowded tables outside Greece's restaurants might make you wonder about the economic crisis, but a closer look will reveal that customers are opting to forgo fine bottled wine for cheap tipple to save a bit of cash. The country's debt crisis means many Greeks can no...
  • Liquid Economic Indicators: The Wine Debacle

    With the European Union going into recession, possibly, with the US growing, but not enough, with China booming, or crashing, and with Japan languishing, the worldwide economic picture is confusing. Debt crises have been swept under the rug by voluminous money-printing, directly or indirectly, steri...
  • US: Making the Mondavi Legacy New Again

    (WSJ) - Fitzgerald's remark about there being no second acts in American lives is so good, one almost hates to cite counter examples, but Robert Mondavi founded the winery that made him famous at the age of 53, after a successful career at Charles Krug. His son Tim, formerly the winemaker at Robert ...
  • What’s in a wine label? Notes of bureaucracy

    (MiamiHerald) - What winemakers can and cannot say on their bottles can be a matter of government intervention. Pimpnho raspberry wine is not, perhaps, everyone’s picture of good taste. Still, regulators gave the sassy beverage label out of Lodi, Calif., a go-ahead several years ago. Much tamer...

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