Wine Industry News

  • Canada: Who's the wine industry's daddy?

    Historian Alun Hughes started researching the widely-heralded father of Canadian wine as part of a larger book on Niagara's wine industry.He didn't expect to possibly rewrite history. For years, nearly every book referencing Ontario's wine history has proclaimed Johann Schiller as the so-called fat...
  • Historic vineyards purchased

    Booth Bella Oaks has purchased the historic, 18-acre Bella Oaks Vineyard in Rutherford. Originally planted by Barney and Belle Rhodes in 1973, grapes from this Rutherford Bench vineyard have been used for the production of the Heitz Bella Oaks vineyard-designated wines. The 2007 vintage will be ...
  • Fingerprinting red wine

    A sensor that can discriminate between different tannins and be used to fingerprint a wide variety of red wines to confirm their authenticity has been developed by US scientists. Eric Anslyn and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin and University of California Davis have developed a s...
  • Guess what! Wine even fights cavities!

    New research shows that drinking wine and eating cranberries can help ward off cavity-causing bacteria. Dental researchers from the University of Rochester say that cranberry and wine can fight against Streptococcus mutans, which invades mouths after meals. S. mutans prey on sugar residue left on te...
  • BANKING: Ag lending landscape in Wine Country may be heating up

    TEMECULA -- The nation's wounded commercial banks have either stopped paying or substantially trimmed the dividends to investors that were common before the Great Recession landed on Main Street.But consider the quirky structure of the government-sponsored American Ag Credit, however, with a $275 mi...
  • Kofi Annan to address Spanish wine conference

    Kofi Annan will deliver the keynote address at the World Climate Change and Wine Congress in Spain in April. The former United Nations Secretary-General and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Kofi Annan will be the guest of honour at the Congress, which will take place on April 13-14 in Marbella.Th...

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