Wine Industry News

  • Twitter starts wine sales to benefit education

    Twitter has extended social media to social wine making. The company announced in a blog post and video Friday that wines in its Fledgling Initiative would be available for pre-order this weekend. "The Fledgling Initiative embodies two things that are at the core of Twitter’s mission: provi...
  • Warnign signs hit Oregon wine industry

    A cool spring, followed by a summer that saw only sporadic heat spikes, has shoved harvest back anywhere from two weeks to a full month, especially in the northern Willamette Valley. That opens the harvest to potentially drowning rains and botyrtis, a moldy fungus that thrives in damp, humid conditi...
  • Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards finalizes purchase of Widmer Wine Cellars

    Schuyler County-based Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards has finalized the purchase of Widmer Wine Cellars in Naples, Ontario County, from Constellation Brands.The Seneca Lake winery plans to produce its major labels in Naples, including Hazlitt Red Cat and White Cat.As part of the sale agreement, Hazlitt will ...
  • Bulgaria’s wine woes

    Bulgaria’s 2010 wine year will be a memorable one for all the wrong reasons, it seems, with a harvest yielding grapes of poorer quality than last year, and domestic sales and exports down. Mass-circulation daily 24 Chassa said that the quality of this year’s grapes was significantly poorer th...
  • Bordeaux's Best-Kept Secret

    There are still a few ways to drink like a king on the wage of a pauper. Admittedly, the Asian-fueled wine boom is making life very difficult for Claret lovers who take issue with spending more than a £1,000 for a bottle of 2009 Bordeaux. OK, so maybe the price of Château Lafite Rothschild is a...
  • Cru Bourgeois: new listing launched

    The new Cru Bourgeois selection has been announced in Paris and London – to the relief of everyone concerned. Frederique de Lamothe, the director of the Alliance des Cru Bourgeois du Medoc told Decanter.com today she was delighted to finally announce the results of three years’ work.‘There ha...
  • Our per capita wine consumption -- among lowest in Europe

    Ireland - The Irish Wine Association published its long-awaited industry fact-sheet recently. Drinks Industry Ireland takes a look at wine’s performance over the past 12 months.2009 proved a another “challenging” year for the wine industry here with total wine sales falling again from 8.4 mill...
  • Harvest Fair Showcases the Wine Country Spirit in Sonoma County

    (PRWEB) - Thousands of wine enthusiasts will once again flock to Sonoma County, California this October for the Sonoma County Harvest Fair. This annual celebration, considered as the best wine tasting event in the region, will be held on October 1-3 at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa. ...

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