Wine Industry News

  • Wrong temperature can spoil wine's taste

    The strange thing is that we all should have known better, but the day was so nice and the people so enjoyable that no one really complained. It was an event staged by a winery for a small group of media people, all of whom have been in the wine writing biz for decades, and the day was so lovely ...
  • Australia Puts Health Warnings On Alcohol

    SYDNEY -- Australia's liquor industry launched a voluntary program to label its products with health warnings Tuesday, possibly to pre-empt future criticism that it is contributing to excessive drinking that is part of the national culture. About 80 percent of alcohol sold in the country – beer...
  • India: Wine makers may turn to grape brandy to combat oversupply

    Bangalore: The R400-crore wine industry is facing a crippling problem of excess production, with 25 million litres lying unsold at the end of April, the close of harvest season this year. This has forced some of the wine makers to eye the premium grape brandy segment to wriggle out of this situat...
  • US: Baseball's new chant: Get your wine here!

    (Reuters Life!) - Beer, long the preferred beverage at baseball games, is seeing some competition from wine as North American stadiums go up market and increase their beverage offerings. Wine has been seen as the beverage of choice by the upper classes, while beer and hotdogs have been staple fare a...
  • Red Wine Counters Effects of Microgravity

    We hope the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on her final mission remembered to pack a few bottles of red wine -- a smooth merlot, or light and fruity pinot noir, maybe even a robust malbec with a bit of kick to it. That's because, according to researchers in France, drinking red wine ca...
  • US: Hess buys Sonoma pinot specialist MacPhail Family Wines

    MacPhail Family Wines, a highly-regarded pinot noir specialist in the Russian River Valley, has been acquired by the Napa-based Hess Collection. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal included the MacPhail brand as well as existing inventory. The winery facility in Healdsburg was not in...
  • Airlines reeling in premium passengers with wine

    (AP) — Delta Air Line's master sommelier Andrea Robinson opened up bottle after bottle of white and red wine from France, Italy, Australia, the U.S. and other parts of the world. As she tasted them Monday, a blue bucket sat on the table next to her. It was there so she could spit out each sip, ...

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