Wine Industry News

  • Treasury Wines is going more upmarket in exports

    (Theaustralian) - TREASURY Wine Estates will inherit the mantle of Australia's biggest locally owned alcohol company in December, when shareholders in former stablemate Foster's are expected to approve a $12.3 billion takeover by British-South African beverage giant SABMiller. TWE managing direct...
  • US: Idaho wine country continues to grow

    (Tricityherald) - Tractors still dot the fruit-and-nut themed roads (plum, pecan, apricot) of Canyon County's Sunny Slope, but these days party-themed limousines and weekend wine tourists are also in evidence. Their quarry is a cluster of mostly small wineries with an increasingly big reputation....
  • Russia to stop using 'Soviet Champagne' name

    (Decanter) - Russian sparkling wine producers are to stop using the Shampanskoye name on labels after an historic agreement was reached at the weekend. Meeting at the Abrau-Durso winery in the country’s Krasnodar region near the Black Sea coast, members of the Russian Winegrower and Winemaker Unio...
  • NZ: Party over as wine profits plummet

    (Stuff) - More than 70 vineyards for sale as wine profits plummet. Export wine prices have slumped to a new low as the industry struggles to cope with changes wrought by a massive increase in supply of Marlborough sauvignon blanc. Latest Overseas Merchandise Trade figures show that wine export...
  • UK: Children 'drinking adult alcohol intake'

    (BBC) - Children as young as 12 claimed they drank the equivalent of 19 glasses of wine per week when questioned for a UK-wide survey of 83,000 school pupils. Of those aged 12 or 13 questioned by the Schools Health Education Unit, 4% claimed they drank 28 units or more - more than the weekly adul...
  • UK: Low alcohol market hits 1 million cases

    (Drinksint) - Low and no-alcohol wine sales are growing rapidly from a small base and getting close to 1 million cases in the UK, according to the latest figures from Nielsen. That is not far off the volume sold by Argentina, one of the top 10 wine-producing countries in the UK market. The sec...

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