Wine Industry News

  • Breakthrough in NZ wine production

    (NZHerald) - Scientists have found that wild yeasts vary from region to region, and can have a unique influence if used in the wine-making process.Climate, soil and geography have long been recognised playing an important role in shaping the character of a region's wines and whose interplay is at th...
  • Chardonnay marks 100th birthday of growth in U.S.

    (Reuters) - Chardonnay, the world's most popular white wine, dates back centuries, but it owes much of its history in the United States to a winemaker who planted the grape in California 100 years ago. Ernest Wente, of the family-owned Wente Vineyards east of San Francisco, brought cuttings from ...
  • France: Chapoutier pours scorn on natural winemakers

    (Decanter) - Renowned Rhone producer Michel Chapoutier has added to the natural wine debate by denouncing natural winemakers as out-of-touch hippies making defective wines.Interviewed in the current issue of Decanter, Chapoutier tells John Livingstone-Learmonth the practice of natural winemaking –...
  • US: State cuts affecting Texas wine industry

    (WOAI) - When you think of fine wines, your first thought might not be Texas, but you would be wrong. The Texas wine industry is growing at an amazing rate, and a lot of that growth is in the Hill Country just north of San Antonio. While it's growing, the industry's future growth is in jeopardy b...
  • AUS: Wine industry unfazed by smoke threat

    (ABC) - The Western Australian wine industry says it is not too concerned about smoke taint from fires over recent days in the south-west. Some grape crops are nearing the harvesting stage slightly earlier than usual because of warm weather accelerating the ripening process. It is a high risk ...
  • US: CA: Nano-brewers on the rise in the North Bay

    (Petaluma360) - Beer is downsizing. Following the arc of small-scale artisan salumi, cheese, bread, olive oil and garagiste winemakers, now micro-batched, regionally-sourced, hand-crafted beer is the hottest thing in brewing. And the North Bay has a growing stake in the trend.Somewhere between home-...
  • Banker Toasts Wine Award, Pours Money Into South African Farm

    (Bloomberg) -- Banker Michael Jordaan is off duty and about to enjoy the fruits of his second job: wine farming. Jordaan, 43 -- head of FirstRand Ltd.’s retail banking unit, First National Bank -- arrives for dinner at La Cucina Di Ciro, a popular Italian restaurant in Johannesburg’s leafy Pa...
  • Distilled spirits, wine make gains at beers' expense

    (ChicagoTribune) - U.S. sales of spirits rose 2.7 percent in 2011, an industry trade group said on Monday, citing new products and consumers' thirst for high-end libations such as super-premium vodka. On a revenue basis, sales rose 4 percent, to $19.9 billion, restoring the industry to pre-reces...

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