Wine Industry News

  • Entire vintage destroyed from Burgundy clos

    (TDB) - Hail damage has ensured that not a single drop of wine is to be produced from one of Beaune’s most important premier cru vineyards in 2013. The Clos des Mouches vineyard, which covers 25.18 hectares in Beaune and is famed for the quality of its white Burgundy, was so badly hit by h...
  • Ancient Hebrew inscription refers to lousy wine

    (ANNB) - An ancient eight-letter inscription — dating back to King Solomon’s reign in Jerusalem some 3,000 years ago — was deciphered by a researcher from the University of Haifa, shedding light on the Solomonic kingdom’s impressively sophisticated administrative system. ...
  • So Are 2 Drinks A Day Really Too Many?

    (WBUR) - A lot of us are drinking too much, and on Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called us on it. More than eight drinks a week for women and 15 drinks a week for men can get you into trouble, the CDC warned. But that doesn't seem to jibe with other studies that found tha...
  • US: Beer Isn't Colorado's Only Local Pour

    (Wines&Vines) - The first time I visited Colorado wineries in the 1980s, I went to all two of them, one outside Colorado Springs and one in Palisades, on the western slope. Today there are 101 bonded and four virtual wineries in the state, according to Wines Vines Analytics, and the economic im...
  • 4 Ways Your Buttons Can Increase Conversion

    (VIN65) - The ‘Add-To-Cart’ or ‘Buy’ button is essential if you want to sell wine on your website. Things like the colours, size, font, and location of these buttons play a very large factor subconsciously for a website visitor and will dictate whether or not they buy from y...
  • US Rapper “Diddy” acquires DeLeón Tequila

    (TDB) - US rapper, Sean “Diddy” Combs, has advanced further into the spirits market by acquiring premium Tequila brand DeLeón. The joint acquisition, by Mr Combs and drinks giant Diageo, was confirmed today. The Tequila brand was founded by drinks entrepreneur Brent Hocking...
  • Germany: Mosel bridge 'bombshell' heartens protesters

    (Decanter) - Campaigners fighting the controversial Mosel bridge project in one of Germany's premier wine regions have seized on a leaked expert study that warns the project could be structurally unsafe. German mainstream media has descended on the Mosel this week following leaked information fi...

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