Wine Industry News

  • Constellation Brands Names Jerry Fowden to Its Board of Directors

    /PRNewswire/ -- Constellation Brands, Inc. (STZ 18.33, +0.12, +0.66%) , the world's leading wine company, announced today that its board of directors has elected Jerry Fowden, 53, to fill a board vacancy effective May 1, 2010. Fowden is chief executive officer (CEO) of Cott Corporation, a private l...
  • Rabobank says wine sector must speed up

    The Australian wine industry must move faster to address an over-supply of grapes to help restore competitiveness with other wine-producing countries, says food and agribusiness bank Rabobank.Rabobank said in its quarterly report on trends and outlook for the international wine market that the Austr...
  • Beer goes flat as Canadians turn to wine and spirits

    OTTAWA-The latest national figures suggest Canadian palettes — at least when it comes to alcohol — are becoming somewhat more sophisticated.Beer and liquor stores and agencies sold $19.4 billion worth of alcoholic beverages during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, three per cent more than i...
  • Swiss wine consumption drops

    Swiss residents drank less wine in 2009, a year marked by economic recession.Overall consumption in Switzerland dropped by 0.9 percent to 2,757 million hectolitres last year, 26,410 hectolitres less than in 2008, the federal agriculture department said on Tuesday.The amount of Swiss wine imbibed fe...
  • More Americans are buying and asking for organic wines

    The market for organic products in United States has grown more than 25-fold in the last two decades, so it's not surprising to learn that wineries have joined the move toward more eco-friendly products. But there are two important things to understand in a discussion of eco-friendly wine. First,...
  • The Claim: Alcohol Worsens Allergies

    Sniffling, sneezing and struggling through allergy season this year? You may want to lay off alcohol for a while. Studies have found that alcohol can cause or worsen the common symptoms of asthma and hay fever, like sneezing, itching, headaches and coughing. But the problem is not always the alcohol...
  • Battle lines draw up over proposed US shipping bill

    America's wine producers and wholesalers have begun high-stakes political warfare.Producers are mobilizing to kill a new House of Representatives bill they fear would block wineries' direct shipments to consumers. The measure, introduced on 15 April, is backed by distributors' powerful lobby, the Wi...
  • Bordeaux 2009: 'Slow start' to en primeur campaign

    As the first Bordeaux 2009 prices begin to appear, trade buyers are complaining of a 'slow start' to the campaign. Mathieu Chardronnier, managing director of Bordeaux negociants CVBG, told decanter.com that despite a lack of prices, interest in the vintage was 'definitely as high as hoped.' 'It is ...

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