Wine Industry News

  • Champagne continues fight against nuclear waste dump

    The Champagne region is embroiled in a legal battle to prevent the French national atomic agency ANDRA from dumping nuclear waste near its vineyards. According to French press reports, the CIVC - Champagne's trade association - has asked the administrative court in Châlons-en-Champagne to cancel pe...
  • Immigrant Wine Growers Shape Napa Valley

    The American Dream always awakes and inspires recent immigrants. Napa Valley is no exception. Charles Krug, a 27-year-old Prussian immigrant, founded the first winery in 1861. Other Europeans, particularly Italians, Germans and French, followed. In 1966, Robert Mondavi, of Italian descent, built Nap...
  • How Sweet it is: Wine Industry Owes Sweet Wine Drinkers HUGE Apology!

    /PRNewswire/ -- A consumer study released today shows that physiology plays a major role in determining wine preferences and that White Zinfandel drinkers are often the most sensitive tasters shattering the myth about sweet wine consumers. The study was conducted in conjunction with the Consumer Win...
  • State's pot crop worth $14 billion, dwarfs wine grapes

    As cash crops go, marijuana is a whopper. The value of California’s 8.6 million-pound pot harvest is about $14 billion, dwarfing wine grapes at about $2 billion, according to state reports. Making it legal, as Proposition 19 on the Nov. 2 ballot proposes to do, presumably would allow banks to lend...
  • Proposed Law Would Limit Interstate Wine Shipping

    IT’S just one more anonymous warehouse here in a mundane industrial district, but within its humble walls lie 23,000 temperature- and humidity-controlled square feet of Garagiste, one of the quirkiest, least-known retail treasures in the wine world. Least-known, that is, unless you are one of the ...
  • Vintner Opposes Prop. 23

    California leads the world in many ways. Our agricultural economy is productive and diverse; we have made big gains in the quality of our air and water, and we are in the forefront of the clean energy industry. We should be using this leadership and innovation to keep moving forward and to help with...
  • Pernod Ricard sells wine brands, assets for $88m to Lion Nathan

    Pernod Ricard New Zealand, the local arm of the French liquor company, has sold a dozen wine brands and some wineries to a Lion Nathan New Zealand-led joint venture for $88 million. Lion Nathan will pick-up a dozen new wine brands including Lindauer, Corbans, and Saints, while its partner Indevin, ...

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