Wine Industry News

  • Treasure in Winery Trash

    Napa, Calif.—Wineries may soon be finding a small treasure in the waste they now pay to discard. Food & Vine Inc., a Napa-based company that specializes in grapeseed oil and related products, is introducing presses that wineries can use to extract valuable oil. The company also plans to process th...
  • Optical Sorters Hasten Harvest

    High-tech photos and precise air blasts identify and remove MOG.Grapes, stems and leaves are photographed as they enter the Delta Vistalys optical sorter. After a week of unseasonably high temperatures, the sky darkened and cast a somber, uneven light across the crush pad at Clos Pegase winery in N...
  • Flash Extraction Goes to Work

    Winemakers excited about effects on phenolics, flavor isolation.The 6,000-gallon stainless steel tank doesn’t stand out much at the Monterey Wine Co., a custom crush facility in King City, Calif., that can process 9,000 tons per year. But the intermittent explosions—pop, pop, pop, every few seco...
  • Toasting History: 500 Years of Wine Drinking in Ancient Greece

    How commonly used items – like wine drinking cups – change through time can tell us a lot about those times, according to University of Cincinnati research to be presented Jan. 7 by Kathleen Lynch, UC associate professor of classics, at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Ameri...
  • Spanish company comes up with new shape for wine bottles

    The bottle has been developed in conjunction with the top Spanish chef, Martín Berasategui.A Spanish company has picked up a top award in Paris for its new revolutionary wine bottle. The bottle’s design is based on a sort of false bottom, with a lip at the base of the bottle which acts in the sam...
  • Georgian wine enjoys export boost

    Exports of Georgian wine saw an upturn in 2010, the agriculture ministry said on Friday, although the industry is still struggling to revive itself after losing its biggest foreign market in Russia. Fifteen million bottles were exported over the past year - a 34 percent increase on 2009, ministry s...
  • China's nouveau riche thirsty for premium vino

    (Reuters) - Following the explosion in demand for designer bags, Italian suits and fast cars, expensive French and Italian wines are set to be the next must-have accessory for the wealthy Chinese consumer. Wine bars are proliferating rapidly in Shanghai, the country's glitzy financial capital, wh...

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