Wine Industry News

  • World's wine glut claims more NZ victims

    The international wine glut has claimed more New Zealand casualties with a large corporate vineyard owner forced to seek a capital restructuring and a steady stream of smaller vineyards facing receivership or mortgagee sales. The ASX-listed Challenger Wine Trust's problems have thrown further light...
  • Germany 'smallest harvest' for 25 years

    Germany is poised for its smallest wine harvest in a quarter of a century after cold weather at flowering and localised hailstorms affected production. According to the German Wine Institute (DWI), quality will be ‘good’, and the wines will be less full-bodied than recent vintages, exhibiting gr...
  • AUS: Time is ripe for wine grapes

    CSIRO researchers have discovered a new method growers could use to control when their grapes ripen, without affecting wine quality.Grape berry ripening is occurring earlier and the harvest season is becoming shorter, possibly due to increases in atmospheric temperatures and CO2 levels. This is caus...
  • Substance Found in Red Wine May Help Treat Malaria

    /PRNewswire/ -- A compound found in the skin of grapes and used to make red wine may help fight severe malaria, raising hopes of finding a new adjunctive therapy against an illness that kills an estimated 1 million people a year, according to a study presented today at The American Society of Tropic...
  • Yountville 'highest Michelin star concentration in world'

    With six stars within six blocks, Yountville in Napa, California is claiming to have the highest concentration of Michelin stars per capita in the world – as revealed in the newly published Michelin Guide San Francisco, Bay Area & Wine Country 2011. Overall, the Napa Valley has cemented its reputa...
  • A venture into coffee

    Negative criticism on the “coffee Pinotage category” is as common as coffee to Kenia. Interestingly enough, the blows usually comes from “traditionalists” making comments on how “this style does not reflect typical Pinotage” and “I would rather have my coffee in the morning out of a cu...
  • State of Washington Wine Industry: The Same

    Wash. – Many voters in the 2010 midterm elections took the chance to express their discontent with how government is handling the affairs of the nation, but Washington state voters opted -- by a narrow margin -- to keep the state in the business of regulating and selling alcohol, including wine. I...
  • Hong Kong to be region's wine hub

    Hong Kong is keen to establish itself as the wine hub of the region as it kicks off on Thursday, the third annual Hong Kong International Wine and Spirits Fair. Officials also predicted Hong Kong would surpass New York as the world's biggest wine auction centre this year. The wine event attracted a ...

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