Wine Industry News

  • US: Cold Snap Hurts Western Colorado’s Wine-Grape Crop

    (AP) - Western Colorado’s wine-grape crop faces another blow this year after record-low cold temperatures earlier this month killed vines and grape buds across the valley. “It’s been really cold and it was very early,” said state viticulturist Horst Caspari at Colorado St...
  • Sake is known as Japanese rice wine, but it’s actually beer

    (KansasCity) - The cup of warm sake you’ve probably had up to now bears as much resemblance to good sake as Godzilla films do to great Japanese cinema. Complexity is available, if you branch out beyond the dreck that many Asian restaurants have offered customers until recently. Sake is ...
  • Napa Valley: Vineyard manager sued over grape dispute

    (NVR) - A winery is suing its vineyard manager for allegedly transporting grapes to the manager’s own winery on the Silverado Trail instead of the plaintiff’s ranch, according to a complaint filed in Napa County Superior Court. In a lawsuit filed Dec. 23 in Napa County Superior Court...
  • Betting on quality over quantity, UK bubbly set to rise

    (TaipeiTimes) - English sparkling wine makers are seeking to build their brand with high standards to take on industry leaders Spain and France. With revelers raising a glass of bubbly to the New Year, England’s tiny sparkling wine industry is set for a lift this year as established b...
  • Wine Country's next generation breaks from their parents

    (SFGate) - When Napa County became an internationally recognized wine culture capital in the 1980s and '90s, many of the vintners were successful retirees from San Francisco and Silicon Valley looking for a second career and a nice view. A generation later, their kids who grew up among the vines ar...
  • Electronic tongues to aid wine makers

    (IET) - Portable electronic tongues could provide a cheaper and more flexible way for wine makers to test the maturity of their grapes, a study has found. The voltammetric electronic tongue used by researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain consists of eig...
  • California’s Island Winery, Reborn

    (Independent) - Santa Barbara Family Realizes Historic Dream of Growing Wine Grapes on Catalina. After crashing through dry stalks of fennel, gingerly stepping over clumps of poison oak, and dodging branches of lemonade berry, Geoff Rusack crouched beneath a canopy of scrub oak, looked toward th...

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