Wine Industry News

  • AUS: Wine drinkers to shun foreign affairs

    WINE lovers are urged to get over the "cultural cringe" and drink only Australian-made drops during January to support the struggling industry and to encourage winemakers to rethink what they produce. Award-winning winemaker Stephen Pannell launched a website last week asking Australians to avoid im...
  • The French paradox gave wine industry a boost

    GRANDVIEW -- Twenty years later, wine is still good for you. That's what a leading health researcher told Washington's grape growers at an industry meeting Friday. Using a mixture of caution, humor and societal criticism, Dr. R. Curtis Ellison told growers, field workers, processing employees and o...
  • Low-allergenic wines may be possible

    (UPI) -- Discoveries by Danish researchers could help wine-makers develop low-allergenic vintages -- wines with less potential to trigger allergy symptoms. Scientist Giuseppe Palmisano of University of Southern Denmark in Odense and colleagues identified 28 glycoproteins -- proteins coated with suga...
  • Hong Kong launches web page to highlight booming wine market

    The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office has launched a wine web page intended to lure more Bay Area, California and U.S. wineries to export their wares to the famed Chinese seaport metropolis.The site, created by the trade office's San Francisco outpost, is part of the group’s broader website. Si...
  • Sherry makes a come back

    Sherry, the unfashionable fortified wine, is enjoying a major revival, according to sales figures. Often dismissed as a tipple enjoyed by grandmothers at Christmas, sherry is flying off the shelves and appearing on the menus of an increasing number of restaurants, as well as being championed by cele...
  • Wine-trashing microbe identified

    Scientists have unmasked a culprit responsible for contaminating untold bottles of wine with the musty, corky odor generally known as taint.More than 20 years after the isolation of MDMP, a compound that can turn even the finest wine into plonk, the identity of a microbe that churns out the stuff is...
  • World's oldest wine sale enters the internet age

    The medieval and the ultra-modern will join hands tomorrow when the world's oldest and most prestigious annual wine auction enters the age of Facebook and Twitter. The annual auction of the Hospices de Beaune, which sells wines from fragments of leading Burgundy vineyards bequeathed to charity over...

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