Wine Industry News

  • US: Potential, hurdles noted in Arkansas wine industry

    Grape and wine production has been a steady growth industry for U.S. agricultural products and agri-tourism in the past decade. The 2007 Census of Agriculture listed grapes as the 6th largest crop harvested in the U.S. with more than 25,000 farmers dedicated to grape growing. Additionally, U.S. grap...
  • California: Grapegrowers Accused in Fish Kill

    Santa Rosa, Calif.—Before 8 a.m. on April 29, a federal agent and a fisheries biologist found 159 juvenile steelhead trout stranded along a branch of the Russian River in Mendocino County; 21 were confirmed dead. According to Dan Torquemada, assistant special agent in charge, the National Oceanic ...
  • Britain's winemakers revel in prospect of early harvest

    Vintage year in offing as unseasonal sunshine cause buds to emerge earlier than normal.For the hardy British winemaker who has the tough task of trying to create a vintage to compete with the great European and New World producers, spring can be a cruel season. But thanks to this year's unseasona...
  • U.S. wine industry weighs implications of label laws

    Wine quality can only be assessed by opening a bottle and tasting the wine. For that reason, labels and label information are extremely important in wine marketing, since they allow consumers to make quality judgments without actually tasting a wine. In an extremely competitive international mark...
  • Salud! Blend (but don’t microwave) to improve a mediocre wine

    Go ahead, pair white wine with lamb or red wine with salmon. Drink it in a juice glass or a plastic cup. But be warned: Some rules about wine were not meant to be broken. Wine likes certain temperatures, usually around 50 to 59 degrees Fahrenheit for storage, cooler than the average kitchen ev...
  • California: Central Coast Vines Hit by Frost

    Vintners along California’s Central Coast are evaluating their vineyards after one of the worst frosts in years struck the area’s wine regions last month. For two nights beginning April 8, temperatures dropped as low as 24° F in some areas and stayed below freezing for several hours. The cold d...
  • German frosts 'worst for 30 years'

    German vineyards have been devastated by some of the worst frosts the country has seen for 30 years. Temperatures dipped as low as -5C on the night of 3-4 May in areas including the Pfalz, Rheinhessen, Franken and Württemberg. The German Wine Institute (DWI) said it was too soon to assess the im...
  • Mystery collector to sell rare wines

    (Reuters Life!) - An anonymous French wine collector is giving new meaning to the term spring cleaning - at least when it comes to emptying out his cellar. He is selling 315 bottles spanning more than 60 vintages from the top Bordeaux houses at Christies in Geneva on May 17 and was also behind th...

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