Wine Industry News
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(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... -
(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...Hitler wine sales deemed legal in Austria
February, 02, 2012 -
(Washingtonpost) - Napa Valley wine producers will go a long way to protect their good name, all the way to Thailand if necessary. That’s the latest country which has awarded Geographic Indication status to Napa wine, which means they’ve agreed not to allow sales of wine labeled “Napa” if...US: Wine producers want to make sure what’s on the label truly reflects what’s in the bottle
February, 02, 2012 -
(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...France: Louis Latour looks at the bigger picture
February, 01, 2012 -
(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...Okanagan wine family expands into California
February, 01, 2012 -
(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...Burgundy leads non-Bordeaux trade – but not DRC
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(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...Dom Pérignon chief debunks acidity “myth”
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(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...Bulgaria Celebrates Vine and Wine Day
February, 01, 2012

