Wine Industry News

  • Grapes good for wine, for jam, for munching

    If one of your New Year's resolutions is to eat healthier, try our Roasted Grapes and Yogurt Parfait.Today's recipe showcases a fruit that has been around since biblical times. Today, there are more than 8,000 varieties of grapes worldwide, each specifically grown for wine, juice, raisins, currants,...
  • Oklahoma: Expanded wine and beer sales on table

    Oklahomans are again debating the merits of wine and strong beer sales in grocery stores as the state Legislature is expected to take up the issue in 2011.Proponents of the measure say it would attract more businesses to Oklahoma and help keep college graduates in the state. But opponents worry that...
  • Beware of the Bubbly: Why Champagne Is More Intoxicating Than Wine

    Ringing in the New Year with a champagne toast is a ritual as old as time itself. Its fizzy effervescence certainly makes for an appropriately celebratory drink. But too much of a good thing sometimes leads to becoming a bit more tipsy than we’d planned… and possibly a nasty hangover to boot. Of...
  • Egg White Fining, Malolactic Levels: Wine Wizard

    Is the salmonella (commonly associated with eggs) a problem to consider when fining with egg whites?Egg whites are an ancient, traditional and natural additive and are sometimes used to pull excessive tannins out of wine in a gentle treatment process known as “fining.” Practiced for centuries al...
  • Spumante vs. Champagne: Battle of the Bubblies

    When you pop a cork this holiday season, there's a good chance that the bubbles in your glass won't be French. Hard times, it turns out, can sometimes be good times - especially if you're a producer of Italian sparkling wine, or spumante. While the recession has taken some of the fizz out of France'...
  • Stopping Vineyard Grinches

    Benton City, Wash.—Bears, birds and even a harvest-time grinch with a tasted for Mourvèdre were present in Northwest vineyards this year, as patience squared off against covetousness.While most vintners—even ice wine producers—were able to get grapes in and wines down for the winter prior to ...
  • Wine under water: a scientific study

    It is not your average wine cellar.But the Spanish seabed may produce a better quality of beverage than any old underground storeroom.Vast numbers of bottles are being submerged in a major study to see if a marine environment really does produce a tastier tipple.In the lab, the boffins have plenty t...
  • Wine auction sales top $350 mln; Champagne anyone?

    (Reuters) - Auction houses sold more than $350 million worth of wine worldwide in 2010, an amount roughly in line with or exceeding their pre-recession levels of 2007. And all of them credited their sales in Hong Kong or Asian buyers for the spike in sales figures.Sales in Asia were "particularly ro...

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