Wine Industry News

  • US: California wine harvest set to fall

    California's wine grape harvest is set to be 12% lower this year, according to the California Wine Institute. The 2010 harvest is likely to be 3.3m tonnes, 6% lower than the forecast in August and 12% down on 2009, said the Institute, citing estimates from the California Department of Food and Agric...
  • Portuguese wine family saves the grapes

    (Reuters) - Climate change has a serious impact on all kinds of crops, including grapes, but one Portuguese wine family is trying to save some of the country's seldom-used varieties from global warming. Portugal has about 258 indigenous varieties of grapes but many are no longer used to make wine...
  • Hangover from wine gaffe stops Philippine officials tweeting

    (AFP) – Twitter jokes about bad wine and a lack of handsome men in Vietnam by one of Philippine president Benigno Aquino's speechwriters has left all government communication officials in the drink. The Philippines has ordered staff in its communications office to temporarily stop using the micro-...
  • Russia rejects 655,000 liters of imported Moldovan wine in October

    Russia's consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor rejected 655,000 liters of imported Moldovan wine in October due to safety reasons, the Russian chief sanitary doctor said, RIA Novosti reported. "We have allowed 6.08 liters [of wine] and rejected as defective 655,000 liters," Gennady Onishchenko...
  • New Wineries Sprout Coast-to-Coast

    Vines and berry bushes bear fruit from New York to Oregon. Nights are longer, days are darker, but hopeful vintners across the continent are pinning their hopes on brighter times to come, as tiny new wineries break ground, bottle wine and open for business this fall. Here are a few we’ve unearthed...
  • Postmodern Winemaking: Speculations About Minerality

    Some of you are already wincing. No topic has wrought more confusion and ruffled more feathers among dedicated enophiles than the incessant bandying about of the lofty sounding “M” word. For some (myself included), asking whether minerality exists is like asking whether the sky is blue. Yet for ...
  • Monitoring Malolactic

    How to stop worrying and love Oenococcus oeni.Days are getting shorter. Birds dart and weave across harvested vineyards looking for stray berries to eat. Sore backs are beginning to hurt slightly less. Harvest cuts and calluses are starting to heal and slough off work-stained hands. The constant fat...

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