Wine Industry News

  • Record month for fine wine investment

    Year-on-year, the indices were up 40.8 per cent and 52.4 per cent with the positive returns coming at a time when most stock markets were relatively weak. The Wine Investment Fund (TWIF) claimed evidence has emerged that the market is in a new phase in terms of favoured brands. Lafite, in particul...
  • MRI scanner for wine to detect explosives at airports

    Hold on to your bottled water: a machine originally designed to check the quality of wine could soon lift the current restrictions on taking liquids aboard aeroplanes. In 2002 Matthew Augustine, a chemistry professor at the University of California, Davis, US patented a device to determine wheth...
  • AUS: Constellation sale 'positive' says AV chief

    McGuigan wine producer Australian Vintage says the sale by Constellation of its Australian and European businesses of to private equity firm Champ is positive news for the industry. Australian Vintage was itself in talks about a merger of its Australian and UK operations with those of Constellati...
  • California: Leafroll Talk Draws Crowds

    St. Helena, Calif.—An overflow crowd of growers, vineyard managers and viticulturists got an update about leafroll viruses this week at the Napa Valley Vineyard Technical Group’s monthly meeting. Area growers have been concerned that leafroll virus is on the rise, and many wondered if there were...
  • Grape expectations: Introducing Marquette wine in Iowa

    Marquette wine may be the most highly anticipated new product to ever hit Iowa's commercial wine industry. And it's time has arrived. Now aging in wine cellars across Iowa, the Marquette is a descendant of the popular pinot noir and can survive 35 degrees below zero. It was developed at the Un...
  • SPAIN: Rioja wine region threatened by power lines

    Some of Rioja's most prestigious vineyards may be under threat from plans to build an extensive network of electricity lines across the Spanish wine region. Winemakers in the region are protesting against a series of high voltage lines that will run from Haro to Burgos in North West Spain. Construct...
  • Climate change may cool Napa Valley, says study

    The Napa Valley may be set to become cooler as a consequence of climate change, according to a new in-depth study carried out for the local vintners’ association. Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) was prompted to commission the study – Climate and Phenology in Napa Valley: A Compilation and Analysis of...
  • Mediation for Wine Industry Disputes

    How grapegrowers, wineries and suppliers can work together to avoid litigation.With reduced demand and prices for North Coast winegrapes—and a spreading rash of winery defaults, foreclosures and bankruptcies unsettling the business—”The last couple of years have been a challenging time for gra...

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