Wine Industry News

  • How to Be Sure the Wine Matches the Label

    (WSJ) - Type the words "empty wine bottles" into eBay's search engine and you will soon be presented with a number of options to purchase all manner of empties from the world's greatest wine estates. Within seconds, I found examples of magnums and bottles of distinguished vintages from Bordeaux and ...
  • US: Beam's Skinnygirl Brand Enters Wine Market

    (WineSpectator) - The popular ready-to-drink low-calorie cocktail brand from Bethenny Frankel is poised to make a splash in the wine market. One of the biggest drinks industry success stories in 2011 expands to wine next month. Skinnygirl will introduce three low-calorie California wines priced at $...
  • Wine Turns Mortgage Title Mogul Into Entrepreneur of Viticulture

    (Bloomberg) -- On a crisp winter's day in 2010, Bill Foley was exploring a troubled winery for sale in Sonoma County, California, when he was taken aback by the sight of an enclosed horse-riding ring the size of an airplane hangar. Foley, who made a fortune selling mortgage title insurance during...
  • Does Nitrogen Cause Pinot Leaf Curl?

    (Wines&Vines) - In the past three years, the vine sickness Pinot Leaf Curl has struck more often and with greater severity in Sonoma County’s valuable Pinot Noir vineyards. The ailment also can affect Pinot Blanc vines and has been observed less frequently in Pinot Meunier. Pinot Leaf Curl, or PLC...
  • Treasury Wine Estates toasts solid first half profit

    (SMH) - Treasury Wine Estates, the world's second-largest wine firm, has continued to walk away from unprofitable markets causing volume sales to decline by 1.1 million cases or 6.2 per cent in the first half. But on releasing its first half half profit result this morning, the wine group, which ow...
  • California Wine In China: Vintners Work To Crack Asian Market

    (Huffingtonpost) - California winemakers think the days of rice wine in China are waning as vintners find success marketing high-end cabernets to a new generation of upscale consumers. Wine exports crushed international sales records in 2011, due in large part to growing demand for California win...

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