Wine Industry News

  • Wine: Bulgaria bounces back

    (Heraldscotland) - Thirty years ago, without their being aware of grape varieties, wine drinkers wouldn't venture beyond some reasonably well-known appellations and a handful of brands. The choice was simple – either claret, chianti and the likes of Blue Nun and Black Tower. Buying by grape see...
  • US: Grow Your Brand in a Growing Wine Industry

    (Wines&Vines) - More people are drinking wine, more retailers are selling wine, and it seems the wine world is beginning to shrug off the wet blanket of recession that began in 2008. According to Nielsen Co., which tracks retail growth in 120 categories, wine is one of only four categories currently...
  • US: Number of wineries continues to climb in Illinois

    (SJ-R) - Wineries continued to open in Illinois straight through the Great Recession, raising the total to more than 100 at the start of 2012, according to the Illinois Grape Growers and Vintners Association. Not that there haven’t been losses. “It’s ever-changing. We’re starting to se...
  • Social Media and the Wine Industry: A New Era

    (Vinography) - Ordinary wine consumers may want to skip this post. On occasion I write purely for the wine industry, and today I'd like to address the role of social media in the wine industry. Whenever I write these kinds of things, I like to remind people that by day I run a company called HYDRANT...
  • Italy's wine tourism generates USD 6.5 bn a year

    (Newkerala) - Wine tourism in Italy generates five billion euros (USD 6.5 billion) a year, just-released data shows. According to data released at the International Wine Tourism Conference that was held for the first time in Italy Monday-Thursday, some three million people are involved in the sector...
  • Kazakhstan zoo monkeys given wine 'to ward off flu'

    (BBCNews) - A zoo in central Kazakhstan, where overnight temperatures have dipped to nearly -40C, is giving monkeys a wine concoction as a remedy against flu. Karaganda Zoo chief animal specialist Svetlana Pilyuk told local media it was not a matter of making the animals drunk but of "relaxing" t...

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