Wine Industry News

  • OXYGEN & WINE

    A few years ago the hot topic in wine science was the closures debate, and more recently it has been reduction. Now it seems that everyone is curious about the complicated interaction between oxygen and wine--a theme that incorporates both of the earlier hot topics, but which puts them in a broader ...
  • Cold stabilisation now

    Cold stabilisation of wine is one of those things that is very difficult to determine. When is a wine stable, and under which circumstances is it stable? The method used to determine the level of cold stabilisation will determine that. At one time the water bath method using electrical conductivity ...
  • Demand for Israeli wine is increasing faster abroad

    Israelis are buying NIS 800 million worth of wine a year, no more than they did three years ago. The head of the Israel Wine & Grapes Board, Tzachi Dotan, said he had no clear explanation, but it seems many consumers have switched to alternative alcoholic beverages in recent years. Despite the stagn...
  • The science and art of whisky making

    Whisky is the liquid gold that emerges from the distillation of base beer. It is "the separation of the gross from the subtle and the subtle from the gross ... to make the spiritual lighter by its subtlety" (Hieronymus Brunschwig, 15th century doctor and distiller). Almost all spirits are produced b...
  • Grape Prices Flat in Finger Lakes

    Geneva, N.Y. -- The surplus of grapes that was responsible for a drop in prices in New York’s Finger Lakes region in 2009 has eased, but prices this year remain close to where they were last year. Hans Walter-Peterson, viticulture specialist with the Finger Lakes Grape Program, told Wines & Vines ...
  • India dreams of success with 'chateau mango'

    India — Researchers in northern India say they have developed a wine made from mangoes that they hope might one day compete with the traditional grape-based variety.Scientists at the Central Institute of Subtropical Horticultural Research in Lucknow have produced wines using three types of mango n...
  • Kirin to buyout wine unit Mercian in $127 mln deal

    (Reuters) - Japan's top beverage maker, Kirin Holdings (2503.T), said it would acquire the shares it does not already own in Mercian Corp (2536.T) for about $127 million in stock to get a tighter grip on the scandal-hit wine maker. Mercian announced in May that had it inflated profits over several ...
  • New York harvest earlier, larger than 2009

    New York anticipates a larger and much earlier harvest this year than it had in 2009. The New York Department of Agriculture predicts the total crop (including table and wine grapes) will be 170,000 US tonnes, up from 2009's relatively low 128,000 tonnes. Growers across the state estimate they...

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