Wine Industry News

  • Modest California wine shipment increases seen in 2009

    California vintners shipped 467.7 million gallons (196.7 million cases) of California wine to the U.S. wine market in 2009, up a modest 0.2 percent compared to the previous year’s volume. The estimated retail value of these sales was $17.9 billion, down 3 percent from 2008 as consumers traded down...
  • New tax on cheap wine puts Ontario vintners in a sour mood

    These are the days of wine and taxes, at least in Ontario, and the resulting struggle is ripening into a battle over economic policy, greenbelts and even environmentalism. The province has set up a huge greenbelt around Toronto, and now, through a selective tax increase on low-cost blended wines ma...
  • Champagne bubble bursts as French turn to fizzy wine, crémant

    The champagne bubble has finally burst as the French turn instead to the cheaper sparkling wine, crémant. As France and the world nurses its economic hangover, makers of crémant – fizzy wine that is made using exactly the same methods as champagne – are in the pink. "We are in a position to ta...
  • Severe Freezes Damage Iowa Grapevines

    Iowa - The winter of 2009-10 started early in Iowa. On Oct. 10, temperatures dropped well below freezing to as low as 22°F. The freeze was a harbinger of more winter problems that would follow in December and January. On Dec. 10, temperatures were recorded between minus-6° and minus-11°F, and on ...
  • Recession has major impact on global wine industry

    The picture painted by the International Organization of Vine and Wine’s (OIV) latest statistical compendium was rather bleak for 2009.With global consumption pursuing its downward trend, global commerce in wine also suffered from the recession and global wine production remained at a level unchan...
  • Winemakers combat counterfeits

    US wineries are using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to combat counterfeit in the winemaking industry.According to Payne Security, a company that develops anti-counterfeiting measures for the wine industry, RFID tags are placed inside wine bottle labels and can also carbon date win...

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