Wine Industry News

  • US: Healdsburg's Michel-Schlumberger winery sold

    (Pressdemocrat) - Healdsburg winery Michel-Schlumberger was sold Wednesday to a new company affiliated with the Westlake Village-based Adams Wine Group.The sale included the Dry Creek Valley winery’s inventory and its 100 acres, which include 65 acres of vineyards, according to Jacques Pierre Schl...
  • AUS: Cherry wine being exported to China

    (ABC) - An orchard at Wombat in southern NSW has begun exporting cherry wine to China. About 700 bottles of the strong, sweet liquor have been sent, and orchardist and winemaker Kerry Eastlake the whole region will benefit if the wine takes off. "If they can pick that up, it would be tremendou...
  • Privatized: Washington State Votes Yes

    (Wines&Vines) - Voters sent the Washington State Liquor Control Board’s retail system packing with the passage of Initiative 1183 in the state’s general election this week. Voter approval of I-1183 requires the state to “close state liquor stores and sell their assets, license private parties ...
  • NZ: Wine and potatoes impress the fairer sex

    (Yahoo) - New Zealand men looking for love might want to try a new approach at the supermarket after research shows that nearly nine out of 10 women judge a man's suitability as a partner on the contents of his shopping trolley. It's out with the lager and instant soup and in with new potatoes an...
  • Wine Industry in China Set to Boom

    (IBTimes) - The rapid economic development that China seems to be enjoying extends into investments in the production of red wine, particularly as a means to attain long-term profits.The Chinese wine market is expected to be worth 50 million nine liter cases within five years and up to 100 million n...
  • Global wine trade agrees emissions calculating system

    (Offlicencenews) - The wine trade has agreed on an international system for calculating carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions. The International Organisation of Vine & Wine has drawn up the Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol, which aims to make sure all businesses around the world which produ...
  • AUS: Winemaker threatens to leave industry over CSG

    (ABC) - The Hunter Valley Vineyard Association President says he will quit the region if the State Government renews AGL's licence to explore for coal seam gas in the wine growing area. Andrew Margan says at the end of this week the Government will decide whether to renew AGL's exploration permit...
  • Bordeaux pressures China to recognise appellation

    (Decanter) - Bordeaux is stepping up pressure on the Chinese government in an attempt to get it to recognise its Protected Designation of Origin status. The move comes from a growing realisation that Bordeaux’s greatest threat is not from fake bottles of first growths but from ‘passing off large...

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