Wine Industry News

  • AUS: Winemakers urged to address wine glut

    A national grape growers body says the Hunter is in a good position compared to other wine producing regions, despite the current poor market conditions. The Wine Grape Growers of Australia group is urging winemakers around the country to work with the industry to address the long standing over-sup...
  • California Grape Growers Bullish

    Sacramento,CA — A normally cautious spokesman for California grapegrowers gave an uncharacteristically upbeat prognosis about the financial health of vineyards for 2011 at the bustling Unified Wine & Grape Symposium on Wednesday. Nat DiBuduo, the president of Allied Grape Growers, said that demand...
  • Wine prices level off

    SACRAMENTO — The economic storm that has battered the North Coast wine industry since 2008 appears to be over.Three years of slumping wine sales finally hit bottom in 2010, analysts said Wednesday at the annual Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento, the largest wine industry conference in t...
  • UK: Government wine sell off urged

    The Government is sitting on a wine cellar worth tens of thousands of pounds, an MP has revealed. Labour former minister Tom Watson (West Bromwich East) has asked the Government to reveal its wine list for more than 13 months but his requests have been continually rebuffed. On Tuesday, he was fina...
  • Wine practices that leave a bad taste in my mouth

    Ever wonder what the wine, spirits and beer industries would look like if consumers had more say? Your thirst for change is clear from my inbox. From rising alcohol levels to excessive restaurant booze markups to plastic corks so snug that they have to be extracted with the jaws of life, you’re ti...
  • UC Davis to open Mondavi Institute for Wine, Food Science

    The University of California Davis is set to celebrate the grand opening of a 34,000-square-foot teaching-and-research complex — the “world’s most environmentally sophisticated” facility for making wine, brewing beer and processing foods — on Friday in the courtyard of the Robert Mondavi I...
  • Vineyard Labor and the Law

    Sacramento, Calif.—Speakers representing human resources, academia and California agriculture exchanged ideas about vineyard labor this morning, and a comment from Mike Carlton, director of the labor division for the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association, summarized the overall message: “If you ...
  • Indians Ready for Wine-at Lower Prices

    Wine may not have won over the beer and whisky guzzling Indians fully yet-just over a million cases of wine are sold annually in India but the popular accompaniment with food around the world is waiting to explode as a lifestyle product - if priced right, according to various Indian experts, claims...

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