Wine Industry News

  • Northwest Vineyards Warm Up

    Prosser, WA -- Temperatures in the Horse Heaven Hills this morning were climbing toward 78°F as Rick Hamman, director of viticulture at Hogue Ranches in Prosser stood in amid Merlot vines at the Zephyr Ridge vineyard. A cool spring has retarded development in many Northwest vineyards, and Hogue’s...
  • Long-running Burgundy-Beaujolais AOC disputes resolved

    New rules resolving long-disputed Burgundy and Beaujolais appellation issues have at last been released.Under the new rules white Beaujolais may no longer be labelled AOC white Burgundy.This is one of the most contentious of the issues to be addressed; the ruling closes a loophole that some Burgundi...
  • Open your eyes to improving wine quality

    Which of our five human senses — sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, — are the most useful in our assessment of the vineyard attributes that affect wine quality? My answer is undoubtedly sight, for the reasons I will give below. But why would one dwell on this seemingly obscure topic at al...
  • Diageo Takes Majority Ownership Stake in NUVO

    Following on the tremendous success of NUVO, the ultra-premium, imported pink sparkling liqueur, Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks company, announced today that it has increased its ownership interest in London Group, the joint venture that owns NUVO, making Diageo the majority partner with...
  • Wine sales bill rejected by Legislature

    ALBANY — Liquor store owners and small business advocates appear to have won the battle over wine in grocery stores by quashing a proposal by Gov. David Paterson that would have allowed such sales.Paterson had included the measure in his state budget proposal, but the Legislature rejected the gove...
  • New alcoholic drink combines tomatoes, plum wine

    A new alcoholic drink made from Japanese tomatoes was recently developed on the Atsumi Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture. Called Toma-teru, the drink is the brainchild of Kaori Fukui, a director of Mimasu Ltd., a vegetable and fruit wholesaler and retailer based in Tahara in the prefecture....
  • Lake County Envisions Five New Wineries

    Lower Lake, Calif. -- Lake County continues to be the North Coast wine region’s Cinderella -- before the fairy godmother appeared. But a large new vineyard development there could wave the magic wand and attract more visitors to the geographically attractive county north of Napa. Clay Shannon, a l...
  • FEATURE : French wine merchants told to think like Coca-Cola

    You know times have changed when French wines, bruised by competition from the “New World,” fight back with the upstarts’ own weapon — dropping complex regional labeling for the plain old grape name.Even the staunchest of Gallic wine lovers now order Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon instead ...

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