Wine Industry News

  • AUS: Alcohol industry upset over link in plain packaging ads

    WHILE Australian anti-smoking campaigns are broadcast around the world, the latest advertising efforts of the tobacco industry have angered a potential ally against government regulation - the wine industry. Heavy smoker countries including Russia, China, India and Vietnam, along with at least a ...
  • Canada: Ontario gives $12 million to grape and wine industry

    The provincial government is giving $12-million over four years to Ontario's grape and wine industry to replant crops and improve vineyards. The money is being allotted to help growers pull out some of their existing vines and plant more popular grape varieties instead. The cash could also be use...
  • Lighter, greener plastic wine bottles gain favor

    (Reuters Life!) - Wine producers from New Zealand, the United States and even France are switching from glass to plastic wine bottles, saying they are lighter, good for the environment and not bad for the wine. The PET, polyethylene terephthalate, bottles are 100 percent recyclable, unbreakable, ...
  • US: Can TTB Keep Up With Wine Industry?

    Washington, D.C.—Tasked with regulating both U.S. wine producers and imports, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau continues to refine procedures while coping with budget restraints. As a division of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the bureau issues statistical wine reports. The most ...
  • Will Grapegrowers and Consumers Accept GMO Wines?

    Would you drink fluorescent green wine? Most molecular biologists-in-training experience their first taste of genetic engineering by transferring a jellyfish gene into (harmless) Escherichia coli, making the bacteria glow green under UV light. One slow day this past winter, my lab-mates and I contem...
  • AUS: Boost for WA Wine Industry

    Western Australia’s wine industry has received a $377,000 shot in the arm from State Government designed to help it target overseas markets. Agriculture and Food Minister Terry Redman said the funding, over the next three years, would help market the State’s premium wines into targeted intern...
  • US: Hispanics and 'Millennials' fuel rise of Moscato, Malbec

    Moscato, Riesling and Malbec have shown 'explosive' growth in the US in the last two years, Neilsen's latest survey shows. The top six wine types – Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Pinot Grigio and Sauvignon Blanc – represent 64% of US consumer spending on wine, but other vari...
  • AUS: Margaret River 'worst crisis' forces producers out

    An increasing number of Margaret River grape growers are being forced to abandon the region, as plummeting demand combined with an oversupply of grapes has led to losses in the industry. The drop in demand for premium wine from the region has resulted largely from intense competition from heavily-di...

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