Wine Industry News

  • China becomes 8th biggest wine market

    China has become the eighth largest wine consumer market in the world, Popular Daily reports. China Food Association released the 2009-2010 Chinese wine industry market report on Oct. 10, saying that in 2009, Chinese production of liquor totaled nearly 7.1 million tons, beer output reached almost 42...
  • Meet Brett: Why You Do or Don’t Want It In Your Wine

    Have you met Brett? Brett is mentioned so often in the wine industry that you might think he’s Robert Parker’s protégé nephew. Not so, but the truth is just as controversial.Brett, known technically as Brettanomyces bruxellensis, is a yeast. That puts it into the same category as our old frien...
  • Hall Wines Acquires Roessler Cellars

    St. Helena, Calif.—Kathryn and Craig Hall’s 35,000-case Hall Wines of Rutherford and St. Helena is acquiring a substantial portion of 7,000-case Roessler Cellars, Sonoma. Owner Roger Roessler will retain partial ownership of the brand and will continue to be involved in the winery’s promotion....
  • UK: Foster's Treasury Wine Estates readies TV push for Wolf Blass

    The wine unit of Foster's Group, Treasury Wine Estates, has lined up a television advertising campaign in the UK for its Wolf Blass wine brand.The division confirmed today that the nationwide push will launch this month and will highlight the Ashes cricket series in Australia later this year, and tw...
  • BANKING: Credit crunch threatens Temecula wine country expansion

    TEMECULA ---- In Wine Country's field of dreams, growers say they can't even get to first base on scores of proposals to build wineries, or expand with hotels and other tourism pet projects. The reason: Banks won't lend. This year's wine grape harvest was enough of a headache. After contending with...
  • Wine industry calls for recycling changes

    The wine industry is calling for major changes to the way glass is recycled in New Zealand. Many of the bottles collected are being crushed into roads, rather than being made into new bottles. Until two years ago, a plant in Onehunga recycled 98 percent of collected glass – melting it down and tur...
  • Lodi Vintners toasts new approach

    The oldest winery in Lodi just installed the latest thing in winemaking technology: a nearly $1 million "flash détente" system that provides better control over flavor and color, particularly in red wine. "It's really exciting," said Barry Gnekow, a consulting winemaker working with Lodi Vintners a...
  • Nearly 1,000 enter Wine Country Marathon

    Running was not a solo sport for the 947 people who leaped into action just after sunrise Sunday and paced their way through Dry Creek Valley for the Wine Country Marathon. Saundra Small-Stampo, 48, of Palo Alto completed her third half marathon holding her 29-year-old son's hand as she pushed th...

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