Wine Industry News

  • First came the plastic cork, now get ready for the paper wine bottle

    (Guardian) - British firm plans to turn your wine cellar green. The UK will soon see the launch of the world's first paper wine bottle. It may have oenophiles spluttering into their claret, but the company behind the product is already in talks with a leading supermarket chain and insists it will be...
  • Young Guns: Wine Startup--for Oenophiles and Average Joes Alike

    (FoxBusiness) -33-year-old Philip James is selling wine on a website. That’s not a novel idea. What’s unique is that he only sells a few, hand-picked wines at a time--with an editorial explaining where it’s from and what it tastes like. It’s also significant to note that in a year his sta...
  • Just One Look - The Colors of Wine

    (Technorati) - Most people don’t realize that one can glean a great deal of information about a wine before one ever smells or tastes it…but it’s true. Once a wine has been poured into your glass, a visual observation of that vinous beverage can relate to you many things about what you’ll so...
  • Cool things to know about wine

    (Chicagotribune) - Let's go to wine school. Or, better yet, fun school. The best way — the only way — to learn about wine is to taste it. But then there are the admissions tests, all that bewildering stuff before the first class: the special glassware; the tomelike restaurant wine lists; the ...
  • UK: 'Don't be a victim': WSTA publishes wine investment guide

    (Decanter) - A new investment guide highlighting the pitfalls and dangers of wine investment has been launched by the UK Wine and Spirit Trade Association. Investing in Fine Wines – subtitled ‘Don’t be a Victim of Fraud’ - aims to help wine buyers make the right checks before they part with ...
  • AUS: Winemakers focus on quality over quantity

    (ABC) - The Wine Industry Association says Australian winemakers are producing higher quality products in a bid to counter the oversupply of cheap wine that has appeared on the market in recent years. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show a 19,000 tonne increase in the volume ...
  • Rioja wine runs £100,000 kitchen competition

    (Promomarketing) - Rioja wine brand Campo Viejo has teamed up with international appliances company SMEG to launch an on-pack consumer promotion. The competition offers 10 consumers the chance to win £10,000 to spend with SMEG to ‘Colour your Kitchen’ with the company’s kitchen appliances....

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