Wine Industry News

  • India: Moet Chandon introducing cousin Mohit Chander

    LVMH owned Moet Hennessey India, the importer of Moet Chandon Champagne plans to produce in Nashik a premium version of the French bubbly that might be christened as Mohit Chander (MC), writes Subhash Arora who believes the nick name will be Chandon as in the other non-French countries where the b...
  • Environmental impact of winemaking different

    Winemaking wastewaters have different pollution coefficients. Basic information to improve the management of cellar treatments. A South African research took into exam the impact of different winemaking techniques on wastewaters, in order to design new and more efficient systems, dependent on the ut...
  • Indiana's great wine hope

    Traminette, the signature wine variety for Indiana, is steadily gaining additional growers and aficionados. "We had a winery tell us that Traminette sales were up 300 percent since last year," said Jeanette Merritt, wine marketing specialist at Purdue University. "We have new wineries opening all th...
  • CHILE: Bottled wine exports rise strongly in 2010

    Exports of bottled wine from Chile rose strongly in value terms during 2010, according to recent figures from trade body Wines of Chile. Bottled wine exports for the 12 months to the end of December rose by 12% on 2009, to US$1.27bn, Wines of Chile said today (7 February). In volume terms, exports r...
  • China Buys Bordeaux Estates, Wine as 2008 Vintage Hits Shelves

    A blizzard threatened the New York arrival of nearly 100 Bordeaux chateau owners who were eager to show off their 2008 vintage, now bottled and soon to appear on retail shelves. They, and the wines, made it and tales of hours on airport tarmacs mixed with wine talk as I sipped and spat the 100-pl...
  • Correlation Between Crude Oil and Fine Wine Prices

    In the world of investing, there have been many studies over the years showing how portfolios diversified across multiple asset classes are the secret to solid long-term investment returns – possibly producing less upside during stock market booms but offering greater downside protection in period...
  • North Dakota: Grape Growers Triumph

    Meanwhile, a bill allowing North Dakota Grape Growers to distribute wine free of whole salers passes the house. State Grape and Wine Committee Chairman Rod Ballinger says the bill will open up the free market to wine makers by allowing wineries to distribute on a small scale to retailers and distri...
  • Washington state enjoys record wine grape harvest

    KENNEWICK -- Despite a year when weather rarely cooperated, the Washington wine industry still enjoyed a record harvest in 2010. Washington crushed 160,000 tons of wine grapes, up from 156,000 tons in 2009 -- a 2.5 percent increase, according to data recently released by the U.S. Department of Agric...

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