Wine Industry News

  • Cork uses environmental card in latest campaign

    s alternative closures now account for a third of the total market, the cork industry is mounting a new consumer campaign focusing on natural cork's green credentials. The www.ilovenaturalcork.com campaign asks consumers to sign a pledge to support natural cork and also calls on retailers and wine p...
  • Napa Makes Moth Control Mandatory

    Napa,CA -- Due to continued pressure from the invasive and destructive European grapevine moth (EGVM), Napa County agricultural commissioner Dave Whitmer warned growers and wineries that they will not be allowed to harvest, move or receive winegrapes unless they obtain a compliance agreement issued ...
  • Diageo sells Barton & Guestier

    Diageo has sold its Barton & Guestier Bordeaux wine business to France's largest wine company, Castel Frères, for an undisclosed sum.The sale, which covers the company's brands, inventory and land, including Chateau Magnol, comes as the UK drinks giant continues a wholesale review of its Diageo Cha...
  • Loosen brings Mosel campaign to UK

    Riesling veteran Ernst Loosen is taking the battle over the planned Mosel road bridge to the retail shelves of the UK with a new promotional campaign.The 'Bridge Too Far' neck hanger project, which highlights the ongoing campaign to stop the 1.7km bridge scheme, was the idea of Nigel Blundell, of Aw...
  • Foster's readies its wine demerger

    Foster's Group has announced its soon-to-be demerged international wine business will be renamed Treasury Wine Estates, creating a new corporate identity and image to represent the businesses' 12,000 hectares of vineyards, 20 wineries and portfolio of 50 wine brands. The newly named wine company wil...
  • Wine project to get $12m boost

    Taxpayers have had an apparently "savvy" decision made on their behalf – they're kicking in $12 million to fund research on sauvignon blanc during the next six years. The Foundation for Research Science and Technology grant will extend a research project on sauvignon blanc that began six years ag...
  • French wine scam effects Pinot Noir

    Are your taste buds good enough to distinguish between Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon or between Pinot Noir and Syrah? I don’t believe that I can always distinguish between certain varietals, but it is nice to be able to take a blind taste of a wine and then look at the bottle to find out exactly ...

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