Wine Industry News

  • Making wine helps to heal scars of war in Bosnia

    (Reuters Life!) - Alija Lizde spent five months in military prison camps in 1993. His only crime was being a Bosnian Muslim, but that was enough for the Bosnian Croat military police. Now Lizde heads a small wine-making cooperative in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina where he works with six Croats...
  • AUS: Wine guru backs call to double price of casks

    A LEADING wine industry figure has broken ranks, declaring it's time to adopt a Henry tax review recommendation that would double the price of cask wine and cut more than $100 off the price of a bottle of Grange. Treasurer Wayne Swan disowned the recommendation on the release of the review, sayin...
  • California: CrushPad Will Move to Sonoma

    Sonoma,CA — After exactly a year in Napa Valley, CrushPad is moving to Sonoma. The specialist in small-lot winemaking will move 18 miles west, into Sonoma’s 300,000-case Sebastiani Vineyards & Winery, now owned by investor Bill Foley’s Foley Family Wines. CrushPad founder and CEO Michael Br...
  • Bordeaux 2010: frost threatens buds brought on by heatwave

    Bordeaux vignerons are by turns delighted and worried by the extraordinary mini heatwave that sat over Bordeaux last week. As most of Western Europe basked in weather more common in June than April, Bordeaux sweltered in temperatures that regularly topped 30 degrees Centigrade.But winemakers now h...
  • Moldova denies ban on wine imports to Belarus

    There’s no ban on Moldovan wine supplies to Belarus, spokeswoman of Moldova’ government Tatiana Kazak was quoted as saying by the press. According to her, representatives of the Belarusian embassy in Moldova have contacted the Moldovan government and explained that there’s some misunderstan...
  • US: A survey of wine industry M&A buyers

    Anticipated rebound in wine consumer, acquisition spending could expand pool of M&A buyers in 2011 There are indicators that our economy is crawling out of its deep recession. Employment data is getting incrementally better, corporate profitability is on the rise, merger-and-acquisition activity ...
  • Formula 1 Scot slows down to become winemaker

    I am trying to picture what it is like to be in a pit stop during a Formula One race, but I can’t get Bernie Ecclestone out of my head. All I can see is the octogenarian F1 supremo drunk on the fumes of burnt rubber and gasoline, grinning at the ear-shattering roar. Try as I might, I cannot con...
  • NZ: Put a cork in it if you want to sell red wine in China

    The cork might have to make a comeback if New Zealand is to take full advantage of the booming Chinese wine market. Some Hawke's Bay wineries are already enjoying success with exports to China, where the focus is very much on red wine. "China is our biggest export market now," Matariki winery ...

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