Wine Industry News

  • NZ: Government simplifying wine excise tax rules

    Economic Development Minister David Carter and Customs Minister Maurice Williamson today announced changes to wine excise tax regulations which will benefit more than half the country's wineries. From 1 July, thresholds for the payment of excise tax will lift tenfold, allowing smaller wineries to...
  • Rodent Control for Vineyards

    It doesn’t take dynamite to dispatch gophers—as Bill Murray memorably tried in “Caddyshack”—but ridding a vineyard of pocket gophers can be challenging. An oversubscribed group of grapegrowers gathered recently at the University of California Davis’ Oakville Experimental Vineyard in N...
  • US: Crimson Wine Group Acquires Seghesio Family Vineyards

    Crimson Wine Group CEO Erle Martin announced today the acquisition of Seghesio Family Vineyards, one of California's oldest family owned wineries specializing in estate-grown Zinfandel wines. Another milestone in Crimson's history, Seghesio Family Vineyards joins the estate-focused portfolio of luxu...
  • Chinese fine wine: 'Our time will come'

    The phrase "Chinese fine wines" might seem like a contradiction in terms. Fine wines being sold in China seems understandable -- as the Chinese population's affluence grows, so does their taste for luxuries like wine. Until recently, the good stuff has all been imported. Fine Chinese wine was ...
  • US: Texas Needs More Wine

    How does a state that is not California, Washington, or Oregon establish itself as great place to make wine? According to Russ Kane of Vintage Texas, you simply let the wine speak for itself. Russ Kane and Steve Krueger (Sommelier at the Westin La Cantera) recently hosted the Culinaria Texas Two-Sip...

Newsletter

Be informed, subscribe for our weekly newsletter.

/ Back to Top