Wine Industry News

  • Italy: Slow as the mountain: making wine in Etna's shadow

    (AFP) - When a would-be winegrower comes to Salvo Foti, Sicily's top wine consultant, for tips on starting a vineyard, he begins with a warning: to make good wine you have to be in it for the long haul. "When they ask me 'What's the first thing I should do?'. I say 'Have children'," Foti told AFP...
  • Wines market to men using sports, video games and sex-appeal

    (Canada) - The wine world is already so masculine, making special efforts to underscore its machismo seems akin to gluing chest hair to Rambo. Nevertheless, ``manly'' wines are the industry's latest fling, in large part due to young men being part of the fastest growing wine consumption demograph...
  • Top 10 Wine Spas Worldwide

    (Gayot) - Since the opening of the world's first official wine spa in the Bordeaux region of France in 1999, high-end spas around the world have followed suit. While the true, trademarked Vinothérapie treatments are only available at Caudalie-affiliated spas like Les Sources de Caudalie in France (...
  • Can’t wine about $110M in revenue

    (NYPost) - Wine drinkers worldwide are calling him the Anti-Christie’s. John Kapon, a 40-year-old New Yorker with a scruffy beard and gravelly voice, has become the world’s biggest wine auctioneer during the span of a few years — and he has uncorked the growth with unlikely methods. Floo...
  • US: Cork Dork: I-1183 Faces Legal Challenges

    Two labor unions have filed suit in King County challenging a rule that initiatives should address a single issue. Initiative 1183, privatizing liquor sales in Washington state, has already been challenged legally before it goes into effect. Under I-1183, state liquor stores will go out of business ...
  • Why do we get hangovers?

    (NewWorldWinemaker) - It’s happened to the best of us and, unfortunately, we all know the feeling: Waking up the next morning, feeling like death warmed up and swearing you’ll never drink again. But what exactly is a hangover and what in wine causes hangovers? For those who don’t know, comm...
  • US: Napa Climate Change: Tempest in Teapot

    (Wines&Vines) - —Napa Valley Vintners assigned a group to analyze trends in climate change and how it could affect the valley’s wine industry. The recently reported results: Unknowns still outweigh certainties. “We’re still not interested in denying climate change is happening,” said Chris...

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