Wine Industry News

  • US: Economist Sees Red Over Rep. Paul Ryan’s $350 Wine Choice

    On Wednesday night, Economist and Rutgers associate business professor Susan Feinberg kept tabs on Rep. Paul Ryan’s dinner tab at Washington’s Bistro Bis, and confronted the Congressman after his meal for partaking in $350-a-bottle wine, while his party seeks painful cuts to government programs ...
  • Canada: Wine gaining on beer as favoured drink

    Canadians are moving from grain to grape, with a new report confirming the wine industry here is outpacing growth in the overall drinks sector. The output of the country's wineries has grown at an average annual rate of 7.6% since 1998, outstripping the overall beverage sector which grew at 1%, a...
  • US: Will Napa Valley Be Able To Produce Wine In 30 Years?

    By 2040 Northern California might have 50% less land suitable for growing premium wine grapes due to climate change. According to a new study by Stanford University, increased temperature can significantly alter the viability of certain grapes in Napa Valley. But, on the flip side, cooler parts of O...
  • US: NY wineries want feds to speed up bottle labeling

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. — New York's wineries say the federal government is putting a cork in their business by taking too long to approve new labels for wine bottles. Sen. Charles Schumer is heading Friday to two wineries in New York's Finger Lakes region to press the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade...
  • The Rising Price of Bordeaux

    It's been 12 years since I started taking a serious interest in Bordeaux's en primeur market. Back then, when I was just starting out in the wine trade, the top wines—Château Lafite, Latour, Mouton Rothschild—were around £90 a bottle, or £1,080 a case. As a young graduate, I remember think...
  • AUS: High dollar opens door to Europe's wine

    AT a time when per capita beer consumption is at a 62-year low, Australian drinkers seem to be developing a taste for finer things, such as French champagne. The currency boom that has devastated wine exports is a boon for adventurous drinkers, who are increasingly eschewing the domestic stuff fo...
  • Wine adulteration 101

    The history of the wine trade is filled with stories of wine that has been manipulated, adulterated (substances not related to grapes being added) and even counterfeited. We have grown used to spinning cones and reverse osmosis, electron dialyses and ion exchange, thermoflush and decanting, cmc’s ...
  • UK: Rexam looks for can prospects in the wine sector

    Rexam Beverage Can Europe is taking aim at opportunities in the wine sector as it works with its filling partner DIS to upgrade filling equipment for packaging wine in cans. DIS has installed equipment that it claims will allow smoother and more precise filling for wine. The new machinery filters...

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