Wine Industry News

  • Polyphenols in red wine and green tea halt prostate cancer growth

    New report in the FASEB Journal suggests that disrupting a particular cellular signaling pathway could stop or slow the initiation, promotion, and progression of prostate cancer. In what could lead to a major advance in the treatment of prostate cancer, scientists now know exactly why polyphenols i...
  • Retail Wine Sales Grew Faster in May

    Calif. -- The pace of domestic wine sales accelerated even faster in May than in April, marking the fifth month in a row that off-premise sales beat last year’s results for the same months. Retail scan data as reported by the SymphonyIRI Group showed four-week sales ending May 16 up by 7.1% in dol...
  • Save the earth, drink box wine

    Box wine has come a long way since it was first introduced in the mid 1960s in Australia. Although box wines are popular throughout Australia and even in some parts of Europe, many people in the States consider wines that are sold in a box to be inferior to those sold in glass bottles. Note the conn...
  • Google goes wine-tasting

    Want to see what the Cape wineries have to offer… from the comfort of your desk?South Africa's winelands have become the first vineyards in the world to be covered by Google's innovative StreetView, which allows users to 'fly' through cities and towns around the world.South Africa is the first cou...
  • Viagra is Champagne's major threat

    Champagne's stiffest competition comes not from Prosecco, Cava or English sparkling wine – but from Viagra, according to Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger.Speaking at the Reuters Global Luxury Summit last week, the Taittinger chief executive also predicted that Champagne exports to China will outstrip th...
  • Bubble war: Is it Champagne or sparkling wine?

    (Reuters) - Wine labeling remains a highly confusing affair.The challenges range from the place-specific labels on most French, Italian and Spanish wines (such as Montrachet, Chianti and Rioja) that require a good deal of knowledge to understand what's actually in the bottle, to the continuing use o...
  • Foster’s Units May Be Targets for Tsingtao, Bright, Reports Say

    (Bloomberg) - Foster’s Group Ltd., Australia’s largest brewer, may get bids for its beer and wine units from China’s Bright Food Group Co. and Tsingtao Brewery Co., media reports said today.Bright Food has received information from bankers about Foster’s wine unit, as well as the beer divisi...
  • Nevada wine lovers fear federal legislation will cut access

    Wine lovers fear a new law being reviewed in Congress will end their convenient access to high-end wineries.Industry groups pushing the law say the fear is unfounded. The goal isn't to restrict shipping but to end a string of costly lawsuits they feel is chewing away at alcohol regulation, the group...

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