Wine Industry News

  • AUS: Treasury 'best thing that's happened' to Wolf Blass

    (Decanter) - Premium Australian producer Wolf Blass will drive to promote its icon wines under its new owner Treasury Wine Estates. Foster’s completed the spin-off of its wine division in May this year, in a move welcomed by Wolf Blass chief winemaker Chris Hatcher as ‘the best thing that’s ha...
  • Egg white clarified wine still poses allergy risk, EFSA concludes

    (BeverageDaily) - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that wine clarified with egg white can still cause allergic reactions in susceptible individuals and should be labelled accordingly. EFSA said its panel on dietic products, nutrition and allergies (NDA) was asked by the Europe...
  • US: Winemakers fear rot, hurry to harvest last of grapes

    (KGO) -- The sun was shining in wine country Tuesday, giving the grapes a chance to dry out after the early rain. But the weather is clearly affecting the crop that was already suffering from a slow growing season. Wine growers are moving faster than usual to get the last of the grapes off the vi...
  • Putting Boxed Wine to the Taste Test

    (NYTimes) - A FEW weeks ago, Suzanne Ermel, who lives outside of Chicago, was at a Jewel-Osco supermarket when she saw a woman put a five-liter box of Franzia wine into her grocery cart. “I said, ‘Don’t do it!’ ” said Ms. Ermel, 30, an unemployed lawyer. She then pointed out that another...
  • US: The Fine Wine of the NFL

    (Isportsweb) - There are only a few things in this world that get better with time: wine, trees, cheese, and Ray Lewis. For 16 years Ray Lewis has been a dominant force in the NFL and unlike most players in the league Ray isn’t regressing, he is progressing. Ray Lewis, 36, has revolutionized th...
  • US: Mendo Winegrowers: Damp but Determined

    (Wines&Vines) - Despite a summer that never seemed to get hot, and a drenching rainstorm that swept through the region at the onset of crush, Mendocino County grapegrowers remained confident and optimistic about the 2011 harvest. “The biggest problem was the delay,” said winemaker Zach Rasmuson...
  • US: Colorado Wine Industry Aims High

    (PalatePress) - From the Denver/Boulder area, the Grand Valley AVA of Colorado is past the Continental Divide on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The trip westward on Interstate 70, which winds through canyons that the word “pcturesque” struggles to describe, is rewarding if undertaken ...
  • US: New law streamlines storage-pond process for California wineries

    (PressDemocrat) - Winegrape growers and environmental groups are both applauding the approval of what supporters are calling a streamlined application process that would allow vineyard and orchard operators to establish off-stream water storage ponds without waiting years for state approval. Curr...

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