Wine Industry News

  • Are wine, beer vegan? Vegetarian? Answer is complicated

    It's not easy, living vegan or vegetarian. But at least you can have a drink with dinner, right? After all, wine is grapes. Beer is grain. Liquor is grain or potatoes and such. All vegan. Right? Not so fast. Don't forget that wine, when first fermented, can be a bit cloudy from tiny susp...
  • NZ: Wine industry collaboration 'will crack Chinese market'

    New Zealand's wine industry must mount a joint effort if it is to crack the Chinese market, an Australian consultant has told wine exporters. Frank Gibson, an experienced adviser to businesses entering China, told an Auckland workshop that New Zealand wine had enormous prospects. "This is one ...
  • Internet Gives Wine Auctions New Wrinkle

    HONG KONG — Wine, around since the Stone Age, is now slowly catching up with the Digital Age.In recent years, a number of famous auction houses, including Sotheby’s and Christie’s, have been experimenting with online bidding during their live sales of brands like Château Lafite Rothschild and...
  • The Box Wine Short Course

    Stereotypes exist for a reason. Mainly, they are rooted in some level of truthiness: However, here’s a bit of stereotypical truthiness that is no longer valid. Box wines don’t suck. In fact, these days, depending on where you look in the wine aisle, much of the box wine in the U.S. is quite ...
  • A bottle of Chateau Latour? Certainly, that's £135,000

    A single bottle of wine has sold for £135,000 in a London auction. The six-litre bottle of 1961 Chateau Latour was sold to a Chinese bidder at Christie's auction house. The sum was more than three times the expected price. Wine experts said the bottle was of "perfect provenance". It would ...

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