Wine Industry News

  • France starts shipping beloved wine

    (UPI) - Beaujolais nouveau -- drunk the same year the grapes are harvested -- celebrated its 60th anniversary with some 50 million bottles shipped, officials said. The release of the "primeur" wine on the third Thursday of November has become a major event in the wine calendar, featuring a race t...
  • Coping with Climate, Controlling Leafroll

    (Wines&Vines) - For Scott Williams, vineyard manager at Pacific Vineyard Co. in the Edna Valley, 2010 was the most difficult growing season he’d ever encountered—that is, until 2011 rolled around. “Our fruit set was pretty compromised, and it just seemed like everything was going wrong,” Wil...
  • News Analysis - Could a paper wine bottle design really work?

    (Designweek) - Design and sustainability experts say designs for a ready-for-production paper wine bottle, unveiled this week, are progressive and practical, although questions of aesthetics remain. The idea was conceived by ‘inveterate tinker, engineer and inventor’ Martin Myerscough, who says ...
  • Chile calls on Hong Kong to solve fake wine mystery

    (MonstersandCritics) - The Chilean consulate in Hong Kong has called on police to solve a mystery in which 100 crates of fake wine were found abandoned in the city, a news report said Friday. Consul-general Mario Ignacio Artaza told the Hong Kong Standard newspaper that he feared for the reputati...
  • Beaujolais Nouveau: Oui ou Non?

    (WSJ) - France has a love-hate relationship with Beaujolais Nouveau. Though the release of this gamay-only wine on the third Thursday of November is a much-awaited and high-profile event in France, many of the French turn up their noses at it: too young, too artificial or just too bad. Some pe...
  • Winemaking: It’s NOT my year

    (Montrealgazette) - I was tasting the wines of a young winemaker from Burgundy a few years ago. The subject turned to wine critics, and he told me, with a tone of contempt, “it takes three years from my vines flowering to when I put my wine to market. These people sit down, have a sip, and after a...
  • Vintners Ask: Where Did the Tannin Go?

    (Wines&Vines) - A harvest that veteran winemakers and growers called unlike any they had ever witnessed has come to a close, but the challenges are still fresh. That was the sense at the Napa Valley Grapegrowers’ Wine and Grape Expo held Nov. 16 at the Napa County Airport. Throughout the day, a br...
  • Biodynamics are 'emotional black magic': Richard Smart

    (Decanter) - The organic and biodynamic winemaking lobby uses 'emotional black magic' to get its message across, a prominent consultant will argue in a debate next month. Viticulturalist Richard Smart is going head to head with biodynamic evangelist Monty Waldin (pictured) in a debate at the London ...

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