Wine Industry News

  • France: Burgundy climats edge closer to UNESCO listing

    (Decanter) - The campaign for Burgundy's Cote d'Or Climats to join the UNESCO world heritage list has moved closer to its goal. Last week the Ministry of Ecology and Culture agreed to officially propose its inclusion in the July 2013 listing. The term climat is specific to Burgundy, and relates t...
  • High wine prices key to New Zealand’s strategy

    (Thedrinksbusiness) - The high price of New Zealand wines is key to developing consumer confidence in the consistent quality of the country’s exports, according to JF Hillebrand’s New Zealand branch manager Olivier Daull.The average price of a bottle of wine from New Zealand in the UK comfortabl...
  • US: Wine Trade Show Draws Thousands To Downtown Sacramento

    (Capradio) - Dinner reservations might be hard to come by in downtown Sacramento over the next two nights. That's because thousands of wine professionals are in town for one of the industry's largest trade shows.The Unified Wine & Grape Symposium will attract nearly 12,000 wine professionals to the ...
  • Good Company Wines acquires CellarThief.com

    (PressDemocrat) - A growing Sonoma online wine retailer that specializes in “flash sales,” or limited-time deals, has acquired a Southern California competitor. Good Company Wines, the parent company of members-only wine sales website Invino.com, acquired San Diego-based Internet retailer Cellar...
  • BERGER: The radical changes in wine-making

    (PressDemocrat) - Wine once was a simple beverage — the product of fermented grape juice. But that was when it was a common quaff with little to recommend it. And in many places in the world, it still is just that. However, fine wine is one of the most complicated of subjects, taking years to m...
  • Margrit Mondavi to publish 'frank' memoirs

    (Decanter) - Robert Mondavi's widow Margrit is writing her memoirs and her publishers promise full and frank revelations about her life with Robert Mondavi.The book, which is being ghost-written by author Janet Fletcher and will be published in July, takes the form of a series of reminiscences and r...
  • North America: Wineries Continue to Proliferate

    (Wines&Vines) - In spite of a weak economy, the number of wineries in North America continued to grow in 2011. The latest tally by WinesVinesDATA, the research arm of Wines & Vines magazine, identified 7,345 wineries now operating in the United States, up by 450 wineries or 6% from a year ago. Canad...

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