Wine Industry News

  • Wine industry set for holocaust

    There is no better metaphor for the Australian wine industry than its National Wine Centre, which has finally become a busy pavilion for weddings.It lies there, ribs poking skyward, its drying gizzards wriggling with brides. Its biggest publicity – ever – followed the assault of our Premier by R...
  • Currency Hedging Protects Wineries

    Vancouver, B.C. -- Wineries hoping to make their flagging dollars go further are joining a growing number of firms that practice hedging to make volatile foreign exchange markets work for them.Hedging reduces risk for wineries by reducing exposure to fluctuations in exchange rates, either through ac...
  • Co-op plants vineyard in Gloucestershire

    UK supermarket The Co-operative Group is to produce its own English wine from vines planted on one of the company's farms in Gloucestershire. The six-acre vineyard in Down Ampney, near Cirencester, will produce a white wine, mainly from the Ortega grape variety, from about 2014. The wine will be sol...
  • European Grapevine Moth Could Force Quarantine in Fresno County

    FRESNO,CA -- A tiny bug could spell big trouble for agriculture in the Central Valley as moth traps are confirming the presence of a destructive predator. Action News has learned a quarantine is in the works because the European Grapevine Moth has been detected in Eastern Fresno County. After fi...
  • Wine and immigration

    Picking grapes is hard work. There’s some skill involved, as I learned when I tried it myself. But mainly, it’s back-breaking labor and it pays poorly.You won’t find many Americans picking wine grapes, or harvesting any other kind of fruit or vegetable. The California wine industry needs hundr...
  • Small study of Glaxo "red wine" drug suspended

    (Reuters) - A clinical trial testing an experimental GlaxoSmithKline drug that mimics a health-boosting compound found in red wine has been suspended due to safety issues.A company spokeswoman said on Tuesday that the trial of SRT501 in patients with multiple myeloma had been suspended after a numbe...
  • Weather hits SA grape harvest but quality of wine

    Despite adverse weather resulting in a smaller grape harvest than usual, South Africa is producing some outstanding wines this year, according to listed company Distell, which accounts for a third of South Africa's total wine production. Erhard Wolf, the executive responsible for grape and wine sup...

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