Wine Industry News

  • Champagne sales surged in 2011, booze headed for 2012 boost

    (LATimes) - Ringing in the New Year is hardly about the resolutions -- clearly, booze is the star. And 2012 might be alcohol’s best year in a while. Take Champagne sales. Worldwide, shipments of the bubbly were up 5.2% during the first half of 2011, according to the trade group Comite Interprofes...
  • Is the secret of passito wine in a gene?

    (Teatronaturale) - Many factors contribute to the creation of a great passito wine; among the others there are the grape variety, the terroir, the agronomic treatments and the enological techniques. From today we now even something more It is well known that some wine varieties give their best in m...
  • Canada: Let the wine flow

    (Theglobeandmail) - MPs have reached all-party support on an issue – a rare political feat in Ottawa. This is to be applauded, particularly as it will yield better access to good Canadian wine. Though hard to believe, Canada has a Prohibition-era law that makes it illegal for individuals to take ...
  • US: N.J. wine producers fight to direct ship bottles out of state

    (Courierpostonline) - A trio of kids scoot around the vineyards and country-chic tasting room of Wagonhouse Winery in South Harrison, giving chase to their parents, Dan and Heather Brown, as they tend to grapes on their 11 acres and customers who stop by for a bottle of pinot gris. When Dower, Da...
  • 2011 turns out to be cheerful year for Indian wines

    During the year Indian wine received its long due recognition at the international level. While there was excess production in 2011, wine producers were not complaining as sales remain on higher side . After three years of sluggish growth 2011 was in the favour of Indian wines. Over the past three ...
  • Best of Unfiltered 2011

    (Winespectator) - All eyes were on the scantily clad pin-up princesses of the Austrian wine industry and the hunky Sonoma winemaking Bachelorette suitor in 2011, but a looming international wine crime wave demanded attention as well. Five years of intensive research at the Unfiltered Institute for C...
  • Fight Against Vineyard Foe Near End?

    (Wines&Vines) - After a decade of research, millions of dollars and the death of more than a few good vines, the battle against Pierce’s disease and its vector the glassy-winged sharpshooter carries on, but the end may be in sight. Once dreaded as the harbinger of a California winegrape indust...
  • Some France makers of wine go natural, and fight the system

    ( LATimes) - Many natural winemakers have been ejected from the French regulatory system; others leave because they believe certification methods reward low-standard industrially and chemically produced wine. Standing by the wood-burning oven in their kitchen, Claire Cousin rips apart the frame ar...

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