Wine Industry News

  • US: Wine: The Cases have big plans for Sweely — and Virginia

    (WashingtonPost) - What happens when a conservative community, hesitant to change its ways and dependent for its livelihood on the slow cycle of the seasons, meets an innovator accustomed to rapid transformations in the way people live, work and communicate? Now that Steve and Jean Case of America ...
  • Chinese wines beat Bordeaux in blind tasting

    (AFP) - A remote region of northern China that began growing grapes for fine wine just a decade ago has beaten the centuries-old French wine-producing region of Bordeaux in a blind tasting held in Beijing. A group of wine experts -- five French and five Chinese -- ranked the bottles from the remo...
  • Wine Books Worth Reading

    (NYTimes) - ALONG with top 10 lists, columns on sparkling wines (next week’s treat) and gift roundups, the end of the year would not be complete without a torrent of new books on wine and spirits. Here are four of the most notable. The rise of natural wines over the last five years has provoked on...
  • Downturn in Chinese Wine Collecting?

    (WSJ) - Is it possible that the Chinese love affair with first growth Bordeaux and Chateau Lafite in particular, is on the rocks? Recent auction results suggest that this may be the case, and that the Lafite phenom was something of a speculative bubble. Not as extreme a bubble as, say Dublin real...
  • US: Napa Grapegrowers Make a Trade

    (Wines&Vines) - Vineyard owner and manager Davie Piña admitted that persuading vineyard owners to sacrifice vines for the sake of juvenile salmon and river sediment it wasn’t an easy sell. “That was probably the hardest part,” said Piña, owner of Piña Vineyard Management LLC and leader of t...
  • The Scottish vineyard making its own wine

    (List) - Scotland as a wine producer? The implications of climate change may not make it such a fanciful idea, and Fife chef Christopher Trotter isn't hanging around waiting for proof. Lynda Hamilton talked to him of grape expectations. In the spring of 2011, Christopher Trotter planted a 2.4-hec...

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