Wine Industry News

  • Most Sonoma Wines Must Say 'Sonoma County'

    Sonoma, Calif. -- On Sept. 24, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law AB1798, the Sonoma County conjunctive wine label initiative. The new law takes effect Jan. 1, with a three-year phase-in period. Wineries must comply by Jan. 1, 2014.What does this mean for Sonoma County wineries? ...
  • Ascentia Wine Estates claims legal victory over W.J. Deutsch

    Eight Estates Wine Holdings, the parent of Healdsburg’s Ascentia Wine Estates, said Friday that a Delaware judge has thrown out a lawsuit against it by former marketing partner W.J. Deutsch & Sons.The ruling was announced in Chancery Court in Dover, Del., on Thursday, according to an Oct. 1 statem...
  • Wine tourism in India catching on

    The Indian wine market is accelerating quicker than you can say “cheers”.Bouncing back from the global financial meltdown and the Mumbai terror attacks — which affected tourism, the hotel industry and general spending — it appears that nothing can dampen the spirits of India’s wine pioneer...
  • Prime French vineyards left bare after 'wine mafia’ strikes

    French wine growers have fallen victim to a “mafia” which is systematically stealing entire crops of grapes. The criminals strip acres of vines bare and, overnight, take what can represent a year’s work for the farmer, which can mean financial ruin for the grower as agricultural insurance tend...
  • Colorado Winegrowers Still Feel December Freeze

    Grand Junction, Colo. -- Nearly 10 months after frigid temperatures seized acres of dormant vines on Colorado’s Western Slope, the region’s winegrape growers are still managing the fallout. And according to winemaker Nancy Janes, who owns Whitewater Hill Vineyards & Winery in Grand Junction, the...
  • Water Into Wine: A High-Tech Path to Legal Distillation

    For years I have been distilling illegally in my rotary evaporator because the products are delicious. I don't feel bad about being a scofflaw—our distillation laws are preposterous.Distillation is defined in the United States as any process that separates ethanol from an ethanol-containing mixtur...
  • Wash. wine group lures buyers to state's vineyards

    WAPATO, Wash. -- More then three dozen wine buyers from major U.S. restaurants and retailers are plucking grapes from vines and swirling and sipping wines during a road trip through Washington wine country this week, part of a concerted effort to raise the industry's profile outside the Pacific Nor...
  • Major Chinese rom-com set in Bordeaux

    A Chinese romantic comedy has been set in in the Pessac Léognan region of Bordeaux.Cherish Our Love Forever, a follow-up to a highly popular television soap opera, takes place in Chateau Haut Bacalan and Chateau Lesparre, in Graves de Vayres. Both chateaux are owned by the Gonet family. Due out ...

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