Wine Industry News
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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... -
(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...Portuguese wine family saves the grapes
November, 02, 2010 -
(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-...Hangover from wine gaffe stops Philippine officials tweeting
November, 02, 2010 -
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...Russia rejects 655,000 liters of imported Moldovan wine in October
November, 01, 2010 -
Three bottles of Château Lafite Rothschild 1869 became the most expensive wine ever to be sold at auction when they fetched HK $1,815,000 ($232,692) per bottle in Hong Kong on Saturday night, three times the high presale estimate of HK $65,000. All three bottles were sold by phone to a single Asian...Wine Auction at Sotheby's Hong Kong Makes History as a Baron's Tipple Fetches $8.4 Million
November, 01, 2010 -
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...New Wineries Sprout Coast-to-Coast
November, 01, 2010 -
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 ...Postmodern Winemaking: Speculations About Minerality
November, 01, 2010 -
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...Monitoring Malolactic
November, 01, 2010

