Wine Industry News

  • US: Calaveras Shows Off its Vineyards

    Murphys, Calif.—An annual tour of top Calaveras County winegrape vineyards showed growers how to achieve better management practices. The Calaveras Winegrape Alliance (CWA) vineyard tour, organized jointly with the University of California Cooperative Extension, visited six vineyards July 22. Cala...
  • Wine's Link to Breast Cancer May Depend on Your Genes

    A Canadian study finds wine lowers risk in women with a mutation, but raises risk for others.Medical research on the link between alcohol and breast cancer is yielding new insight but is also making the risks less clear. A new study has found evidence that moderate wine consumption may protect some ...
  • French monks pray and make wine on the Med

    (Reuters Life!) - A group of southern French monks adhere strictly to the centuries-old rules of their monastery as they pray and work in a small community. But with modern marketing techniques they are lifting the wines they make to must-have items on exclusive tables in France and abroad. The ...
  • UK consumers are buying more wine

    The proportion of consumers buying wine in the last 12 months has increased to 59% of the UK population (from 55% in 2009) according to Wine, a new Market Report Plus from market intelligence provider Key Note. The UK market experienced a small increase in sales during 2011, with the market value...
  • 'Most valuable' bottle of white wine sells for £75,000

    A 200-year-old bottle of white wine has been sold for £75,000, setting a record for the most expensive bottle of white wine not bought at auction. The 1811 Chateau d'Yquem was purchased by French collector Christian Vanneque. Guinness World Records said the bottle, which was sold at the Ritz,...
  • US: California wine grape growers can only hope good times continue

    California may be the most diversified agricultural region in the nation and the world, yet there are some interesting parallels between the seemingly fragmented segments.One is that growers and processors, regardless of commodity, are constantly seeking to open new markets and expand existing ones....
  • Success in a Bottle: Wine Sites Finally Start to Win Over Web

    From soil to sip, it takes a long time to make the finest wine. So it's fitting that the industry's journey to online buying has been a slow one, marked by legal and legislative hurdles that have scared away some of the biggest retail players. But a scrappy group of pure-play wine sites may have ...
  • Weekly wine defined: Grappa

    This week’s wine term doesn’t have to do with wine itself, but it comes from grapes, which in my mind means I can define it as a wine term. The word is: Grappa. Actually, Grappa has close ties to wine because it’s made from the parts of the grapes and vines that are discarded in the wine...

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