Wine Industry News

  • Argentina pulls ahead of Chile in wine exports to U.S.

    Buenos Aires – Argentine wine exports to the United States topped those from neighboring Chile last year, spokespersons for the National Institute of Viniculture told Efe Tuesday. Argentina exported $222 million worth of wine to the United States in 2010, compared with $210 million for Chile. ...
  • Constellation plans to close Blackstone’s Kenwood winery

    KENWOOD — Constellation Wines U.S. on Monday informed the 10 employees at the Blackstone winery and visitor’s center in Kenwood that it would be closed as of March 1 and possibly put up for sale, as production of Blackstone Sonoma Reserve wines has already relocated to Sonoma.“We determined it...
  • Winegrapes Face Trials in Alabama

    Auburn, Ala.—A researcher at Auburn University has planted Pierce’s disease-resistant grapevines developed at the University of California, Davis, to see if that state can produce traditional table wines. As in every other state, interest in winemaking and grapegrowing is expanding rapidly in...
  • Troubling trend of biodynamic winemaking

    There is no elegant way to put this: Part of the newest fad in winemaking involves placing German chamomile flowers in a cow's intestine, hanging the intestine from a tree in the summer, burying it in the ground over the winter, digging it back up again in the spring, discarding the intestine (thank...
  • New grapes needed to ensure future wine

    Scientists says the future of wine-making depends on developing new varieties of grape.Nearly all types of grape in use today belong to one species, meaning that they are vulnerable to the same diseases.Researchers in the United States have made genome maps of more 1000 vine samples.Writing in the m...
  • A wine bottle that prevents sediments is now available

    A Spanish company Estalpackaging has started to distribute a revolutionary bottle designed by the basque restaurateur Martin Berasategui.This bottle called the “Martin Berasategui System” was designed to prevent wine sediments from reaching the wine glass during decantation. The company was awar...

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