Wine Industry News

  • Wine seller sues "Hell's Kitchen" star for skipping bill

    (Reuters) - A U.S. wine merchant went beyond just cursing Gordon Ramsay on Monday and filed a lawsuit against the television celebrity chef who is known as much for his command of swear words as he is for his sauces. The merchant, Wineberry America LLC accused Ramsay, his private equity backers the...
  • Bank study sees 2010 improvement for wine

    NORTH COAST — The high-end part of the wine industry will start to recover by the end of this year, with revenue growth this year for wines retailing for more than $20 a bottle of 8 percent to 12 percent from that of last year, according to an economic forecast released today by Silicon Valley Ban...
  • Ontario to Support VQA Wines

    Ontario -- On April 28, the province of Ontario announced that through the year 2014 it will invest a total of CAD $57 million in the success and long-term sustainability of its Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) wines. Both VQA wines and Ontario grapegrowers will receive support through three initiati...
  • English wine production doubles to 3 million bottles

    The number of bottles produced by English wineries jumped from 1.04 million in 2008 to 3.17 million in 2009, according to official figures released by English Wine Producers, the trade body.Though many remember last summer as a washout, the conditions were good for grape growing and substantially be...
  • Foster's wants wine tax reform

    AU - BEVERAGES giant Foster's Group has called for wine tax reform after the federal government rejected the Treasury's recommendation for an immediate overhaul of alcohol tax. Cheap wine producers and brewers were the main winners from the government's decision, with spirits and expensive wines at...
  • Wine grape growers relieved at volumetric tax reprieve

    The Australian wine industry has welcomed the news that the Federal Government has rejected one of the recommendations of the Henry tax review, that considered the way wine is taxed. The review suggested a move toward volumetric tax, which would have dropped the price of expensive wine, but dramati...
  • Wine into water as vintage dozen auctioned off

    AU - Funds raised in the auction of 12 bottles of wine will be used to fund a 'water bank' for South Australia. The bottles of 2005 Penfolds Grange vintage were released yesterday and are retailing at more than $500 each. The Murray Darling Association in South Australia has purchased a dozen to a...
  • Show Stopper: How Plastic Popped the Cork Monopoly

    ZEBULON, N.C.—In a nondescript factory in this small, wooded town, 10 giant machines worked around the clock last year to churn out 1.4 billion plastic corks, enough to circle the earth 1.33 times if laid end-to-end.Unknown to most American wine drinkers, the plant's owner, Nomacorc LLC, has quiet...

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