Wine Industry News

  • B.C. ice wine producers celebrate deep freeze

    (CBC) - Ice wine industry leaders expecting a record harvest with 1,000 tonnes of grapes. While an early cold snap may have caused misery for some across B.C., the deep freeze has ice wine producers in the province's Okanagan region smiling. Dozens of grape pickers braved the early morning cold...
  • Canadian company looks to turn recycled wine corks to shoes

    (Tri-Cityherald) - Time is running out on the crowd-funding campaign launched by a Vancouver footwear company seeking to create carbon-neutral shoes made with used wine corks. SOLE has partnered since 2009 with ReCORK, a wine cork recycling plant in Napa, Calif., for material to create men's and...
  • TOP 10 WINES IN THE US PRESS

    (TDB) - Loredan Gasparini Casa Bianca Prosecco, Red Newt Riesling 2012 and Veni Vidi Vici Vini Pinot Noir 2010. In the Washington Post, Dave McIntyre put together “two flights of wines for your Thanksgiving consideration. Each flight consists of a sparkling wine, a white and a red. The d...
  • Update on Red Blotch Disease in Grapevines

    (Wines&Vines) - There was standing room only as growers and winemakers skipped the wine reception at the Nov. 13 Napa Wine + Grape Expo to hear the latest intelligence on red blotch virus from Dr. Marc Fuchs of the Department of Plant Pathology at Cornell University in Geneva, New York. Fuch...
  • SHADES MADE FROM WINE BARRELS LAUNCHED

    (TDB) - Robert Mondavi Winery has collaborated with California-based sunglasses maker Woodzee on a pair of shades crafted from old wine barrels. The frames of the Wayfarer-shaped specs are made from wood used to age Central Coast red blend, Robert Mondavi Private Selection Coastal Crush Red...
  • 1976 Judgement of Paris wines enter US hall of fame

    (Decanter) - The Napa wines that famously beat France's best in the 1976 Judgement of Paris tasting have been chosen from among millions of artefacts as one of the 101 items that 'made America'. Smithsonian magazine, representing the 167-year-old, US-based Smithsonian Institution, one of the l...
  • France: Wine lovers hail annual arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau

    (France24) - The ritual uncorking of Beaujolais Nouveau wines each November began at midnight on Thursday, part of an annual marketing campaign aimed at elevating a young wine that shares little with its more mature and refined French cousins. The wine world’s best-known party is beginning...
  • The Best (And Coolest) Gifts For Wine Lovers

    (Forbes) - It’s time to start stressing about the perfect gift for the wine lover in your life. Allow me to save you some time, as I’ve been stressing since August, compiling this ultimate guide to cool wine things. This year’s compilation has a design theme—focusing mainly ...

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