Wine Industry News

  • US: Not your average Super Bowl battle: Wine vs. beer

    (Nashuatelegraph) - As the Patriots face off against the Giants for Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday, we can expect football frenzy to reach new heights. Of course, as any enthusiast for the event will readily attest, it’s not all about the game. Over the past four decades, the Super Bowl has become...
  • Hitler wine sales deemed legal in Austria

    (AP) - Officials say they have stopped investigating a man after finding no evidence that his sales of wine and schnapps with Adolf Hitler on the label were breaking a law against glorifying the Nazi era. State prosecution official Heinz Rusch says the investigation has ended because of lack of p...
  • France: Louis Latour looks at the bigger picture

    (Thedrinksbusiness) - Burgundy domain Louis Latour is hoping to encourage producers to work together to promote greater biodiversity and improve vineyard management with a project dubbed “Paysage de Corton”.Launched last year, the project was designed to make the producers in Corton “look at t...
  • Okanagan wine family expands into California

    (Vancouversun) - One of B.C.’s oldest and best-known wine-producing families is expanding into California’s Napa Valley as a way to build an international brand. The Stewart family, which owns Quails’ Gate Estate Winery of West Kelowna, is undertaking what it calls a “significant expansio...
  • Burgundy leads non-Bordeaux trade – but not DRC

    (Thedrinksbusiness) - Comte de Voguë and not Domaine de la Romanée-Conti led the trade in non-Bordeaux wines last month according to Liv-ex. Voguë accounted for 12.3% of non-Bordeaux trading during January and DRC only 8% “a signal perhaps”, said the index, “that more of the region’s lead...
  • Dom Pérignon chief debunks acidity “myth”

    (Thedrinksbusiness) - Dom Pérignon cellar master Richard Geoffroy described the connection between acidity and age-worthiness in wine as a “myth” during a tasting of the Champagne house’s new release from the notoriously warm 2003 vintage. Commenting on the decision by many of his peers not t...
  • Bulgaria Celebrates Vine and Wine Day

    (Novinite) - The Bulgarian Orthodox Church honors on Wednesday, February 1, the Day of Saint Trifon, the patron of vine-growers, wine-producers and tavern-keepers. The holiday is widely known in Bulgaria as Trifon Zarezan - from the Bulgarian verb "zariazvam" meaning to prune vines. Saint Trif...

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