Wine Industry News

  • It’s time to deregulate Tennessee’s wine industry and wineries

    HUMBOLDT, TN- How do you create good jobs in the rural counties of Tennessee without millions of dollars in incentives? You deregulate Tennessee’s wine industry and farm wineries. North Carolina has done it. Virginia and Missouri have done it, as well. As you can see, Tennessee has overlooked this...
  • Wineries Good for Virginia

    Gov. Bob Mcdonnell is ringing in the new year with some new initiatives and Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Todd Haymore announced those plans Friday. Haymore says that promoting the wine industry in Virginia is one of McDonnell's top initiatives in 2011. Curt and Jackie Hartman are ge...
  • The wine in Spain is very rarely plain

    There's no getting away from it. The wines I have enjoyed most over the past few weeks, festive season included, have had something inescapable in common. They have all been from Spain. Should this come us a surprise? Hardly. Spain's extraordinary diversity as a wine-producing nation is no secret...
  • Wine booming after 40% rise in 2010

    Wine investors enjoyed a stellar 2010, with prices for the top vintages rising 40% on surging demand in Asia. Over the twelve months, the 40% rise for fine wine's benchmark index – the Liv-ex 100 – comprehensively beat the return investors gained on the FTSE 100, which rose by 9%....
  • Vintage Wine Estates acquires Cosentino in Napa

    Vintage Wine Estates has acquired Napa Valley’s Cosentino Winery, which ceased trading in November after failing to secure extra finance to cover its debts.Now the Santa Rosa-based Vintage Wine Estates has expanded its premium Napa and Sonoma winery portfolio by purchasing the winery for an undisc...
  • Rain, Not Sun, Greens This Winery

    Paso Robles, Calif.—Thoughts of “green” wineries typically turn toward the sun: In the past decade, dozens if not hundreds of North American wineries have gone at least partly off the power grid by installing arrays of solar panels. If there’s enough sunlight to grow grapes, there’s suffic...
  • Why isn't more wine 'organic'?

    Sulfites are forbidden in organic products by the USDA, but most winemakers consider the preservative crucial in winemaking, so few wineries want the label. This sounds familiar: a national consumer group is fighting to maintain organic standards against industry people who want to weaken them. But...

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