Wine Industry News
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(Independent) - Of all the great food and drink pairings, one of the UK's favourite in recent years has got to be curry and lager. However, despite being billed as the perfect complement to chilli and spice, Indian lager may now have found competition in its fruitier cousin, Indian wine. India pr... -
(OIV) - The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV), the intergovernmental reference organisation for everything related to vine-based products, unveiled its report on the global economic vitiviniculture situation for the first ten months of 2011. Federico Castellucci, the OIV Director ...Global economic vitiviniculture data for 2011: stable wine production despite the fall in the world vineyard
December, 01, 2011 -
(Bostonherald) - Wine snobs aren’t the only people popping their corks at the ever-increasing number of plastic screw-caps on wine bottles. “I tend to stay away from bottles that have twist-off tops. I don’t know what it is,” said Antonio Musto, 22, of Walpole. “There’s something abou...Some wine drinkers see red over screw-caps
December, 01, 2011 -
(Chinadaily) - Wang Lijiao, a 61-year old wine maker, lives in a three hundred-year-old mansion at the center of Xiansai village near Qionghai city, Hainan province. Stepping into this old mansion, one can smell the mellow scent of Wang's home-made ricewine. Wang has been carrying on his ancestra...Traditional rice wine-making no successors?
December, 01, 2011 -
(Pennlive) - I wrote the other day about Cardinal Hollow’s (North Wales, Pa.) jalepeno wine and whiskey-barrel-aged mead, neither of which contain grapes. There are a number of other examples of beverages being sold as wine but not containing a single grape, such as Mt. Felix’s (Havre de Grace, ...Not a grape in sight, but these beverages are still defined as wine
December, 01, 2011 -
(Wines&Vines) - Winery clusters can bolster regional economic resilience, according to new research from Walla Walla Community College in partnership with Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. (ESMI) of Moscow, Idaho. Based on experience in Walla Walla, the research suggests that Oregon’s Umpqua Vall...US: Winery Clusters Foster Resilience
December, 01, 2011 -
(Pressdemocrat) - There's a new trend in wine packaging, and it borrows from its beer brethren. Restaurants have begun keeping wines in kegs, and pouring it out of a tap.Keeping wine on tap reduces packaging and storage space, saves time opening bottles — some of which might be corked — and allo...US: Wine on tap is the hot new trend
December, 01, 2011 -
(WestAustralian) - Vasse Felix chief winemaker Virginia Willcock has urged people to remember Margaret River is open for business despite the fires. The stellar wine producer took out the prize for best white at the Margaret River wine show last Thursday - the worst day of the bushfires - and sai...AUS: Marg River wine industry unscathed
November, 30, 2011

