Wine Industry News

  • S. Africa Must Boost Wine to China, Standard Bank Says

    (Bloomberg) -- South African wine producers need to look at increasing exports to China, which is set to become the seventh largest consumer of wine by 2012, Standard Bank Group Ltd. said. China “offers real opportunities for South African wine makers,” Willie Du Plessis, director of agricultura...
  • Chr. Hansen launches frozen yeast for easy wine-making

    Directly inoculated Viniflora® FrootZen™ helps wineries meet consumer demands for natural, authentic and fruiter wines Pursuing its strategy of offering natural, high value specialty yeasts and malolactic cultures to the wine industry, Chr. Hansen once again launches a breakthrough innovation wi...
  • Xu Lei confirmed as Mouton 2008 artist

    Chateau Mouton Rothschild has just revealed its wine label for the 2008 vintage – confirming Chinese painter Xu Lei as the artist. Xu is artistic director of Today Art Museum, Beijing’s leading contemporary art gallery, and a graduate from the prestigious Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts. For the l...
  • SA wine industry needs to ensure sustainability

    Agriculture in general and wine production in particular need to change to ensure profitability and long-term sustainability, Standard Bank said on Monday. Pressure on the South African industry was intensifying as vineyards aged and international competition for market share increased, the bank's d...
  • U.K. Considering Moves to Cut Tobacco And Alcohol Consumption

    (Bloomberg) -- U.K. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said he’s looking at ways to cut tobacco and alcohol consumption as he tries to improve public health, with the focus on the poorest people.The government will ban “below cost” sales of alcohol, Lansley told the BBC’s “Andrew Marr Show,�...
  • Could 50% of Russian wine be fake ?

    A top Russian alcohol market official says half of all wine and 70 percent of the cognac on that country’s store shelves is counterfeit.Vladislav Spirin, a policy official at Reh Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation, says the fake wine and cognac is made out of “concentrates, aromatiser...
  • Canada: Feds Pouring Money Into Wine Industry

    It could spell good news for the our Local Ontario South Coast Wine Organization.... The federal government is pouring almost half a million dollars into Canada's wine industry. More than 200-thousand dollars will go towards boosting exports to new international markets. There's also money to upgrad...
  • PA: Store wine kiosks could be short-lived

    HARRISBURG -- If proposals to privatize state liquor stores gain momentum, new self-serve wine kiosks could go the way of eight-track tapes and floppy disks. The wine-dispensing contraptions first appeared in Pennsylvania grocery stores just five months ago, and already some lawmakers warn they coul...

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