Wine Industry News
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(Dailymail) - It's Europe's biggest warehouse and promises a very merry Christmas - if you like wine. Because between now and the big day an astonishing 11.5 million bottles of wine will be leaving this huge warehouse and wine packaging facility bound for supermarkets, off-licences and bars. T... -
(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...Italy: Slow as the mountain: making wine in Etna's shadow
December, 11, 2011 -
(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...Wines market to men using sports, video games and sex-appeal
December, 10, 2011 -
(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 (...Top 10 Wine Spas Worldwide
December, 10, 2011 -
(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...Can’t wine about $110M in revenue
December, 10, 2011 -
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 ...US: Cork Dork: I-1183 Faces Legal Challenges
December, 10, 2011 -
(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...Why do we get hangovers?
December, 09, 2011 -
(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...US: Napa Climate Change: Tempest in Teapot
December, 09, 2011

