Wine Industry News
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(Ceskapozice) - Czech Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek’s plans to reintroduce excise duties on wine sales have met a rebuff from his own center-right TOP 09 and other parties in parliament. TOP 09 chairman Karel Schwarzenberg, the foreign minister, has come out against the party number two’... -
(Telegraph) - Wine makers of Paris are fighting to stage a grape growing renaissance in and around the capital – once France's biggest wine growing region – and are looking to London for inspiration. Mention the vineyards of Paris and most wine experts will roll their eyes and turn up their nose...France: Paris wine makers seek recognition for grape growing renaissance
February, 12, 2012 -
(Auburnpub) - Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent comments opposing the sale of wine in grocery stores, business groups supporting the proposal hope he rethinks his position. According to media reports, Cuomo said the sale of wine in food stores would be “disruptive to many stores, mom-and-pop s...US: NY: No consensus on wine in grocery stores
February, 12, 2012 -
(APP) - Few things say romance quite like a bottle of wine and night at the movies. Fortunately, a few days before Valentine’s Day, cinema fans will get a taste of both as the new wine documentary “Boom Varietal” screens at 7 p.m. today at Voorhees Hall in New Brunswick as part of the New Jers...Festival film tells tale of popular Malbec wine
February, 12, 2012 -
(Icenews) - ÁTVR, Iceland’s public sector alcohol retail monopoly, has refused to sell a red wine marketed under the branding of British rock band Motörhead. The decision was taken because the name is apparently a nod to amphetamine abuse and because the band sings about war, unsafe sex and drug...No Motörhead wine for Icelanders, branding too negative
February, 12, 2012 -
(TheLand) - GOVERNOR-General Quentin Bryce used her Australia Day address to highlight the importance of careers in agriculture and the vitality of farmers for all Australians. Speaking in a televised address from the Yarralumla Woolshed, Ms Bryce said 2012 would be a year to celebrate farmers an...AUS: ‘We need farmers’
February, 11, 2012 -
(Winnipegfreepress) - Winemakers in California strive for sustainability, but defining the word is tricky.If there was one word we Canadian writers and sommeliers heard tossed around liberally at California wineries, it was "sustainable." It's a term I've found puzzling as it relates to growing g...Red, white and... green?
February, 11, 2012 -
(Sanluisobispo) - A whopping 35 percent fewer wine grapes were crushed in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties in 2011 compared with 2010, due in large part to wildly unpredictable weather, according to the preliminary California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Grape Crush Report releas...US: CA: SLO County wine grape production hurt by weather in 2011
February, 11, 2012

