Wine Industry News

  • When Grapevines Will Not Die

    (Wines&Vines) - Considering how much cash and work growers spend to keep grapevines healthy, they are surprisingly hard to kill. It’s easy to rip vines out or cut them down, but that doesn’t usually kill them. Living remnants of the roots will remain, hosting pathogens and pests that could threa...
  • Barley wine’s not just for winter nights

    (Washingtonpost) - Like the terms jumbo shrimp, working holiday and pretty ugly, barley wine appears to be an oxymoron. The federal government recognizes the potential for confusion, and so requires brewers to slap the cumbersome phrase “barley wine-style ale” on the label of this strongest o...
  • Wine's Three Biggest Lies

    (WineSpectator) - Why good wine lovers tell bad lies. 1. If You Like It, It Is Good. This is, without question, the biggest lie of them all. I can't tell you the number of times I've heard wine lovers—fellow writers, merchants, consumers—serve up this whopper. Why do they do it? The answer is...
  • BERGER: The art of wine description

    (Pressdemocrat) - Describing what a wine tastes like is an art form that isn't taught in any school and is best created by those with an exalted sense of the absurd. I have seen wine reviewers who wax so poetic that the prose turns scarlet, as if embarrassed to be so manipulated. A wine can't ...
  • GTREE(TM) Set To Revolutionize Sustainable Label Offerings

    /CSRwire/ - Following years of research, testing and development, G3 Enterprises is now offering GTREE™ – an environmentally sustainable, high-performance wine label paper which was developed for use on all bottling lines, including those utilizing high-speed and mobile bottling application equi...
  • US: New Jersey Lets In Most Wineries

    (Wines&Vines) - After we published last month the welcome news that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had signed into law the long-sought legislation allowing direct-to-consumer wine shipments from within and outside the state, one reader commented that the cost for a permit was too high. At the time, ...

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