Wine Industry News

  • New Zealand overtakes Germany in UK wine sales

    New Zealand is claiming to have overtaken sales of German wine in the UK when looking at country of origin percentage shares.It points to the latest Nielsen data (MAT end March 2010)which shows New Zealand has a 3.3% share of the UK off-trade market and overtaken Germany for the first time. New Zeal...
  • Construction Continues for UC Davis' Showcase Winery

    Davis,CA - The new teaching winery now in the final stages of construction at the University of California, Davis, will be a vast improvement over the school’s present antiquated facility, and it will be far more than a modern science lab for students. It is being built as a site for research to r...
  • Wine beats stocks regardless of economy, study confirms

    Wine is a better investment than equities, especially in a bear market, a study shows.University of Fribourg PhD candidates Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf found that including investment-grade wine in a portfolio increases the portfolio's returns and mitigates risk, particularly during ...
  • Wine: Natural isn't perfect

    Wine is not immune to political correctness or polemics.The latest battlefront in wine is whether that juice you're drinking is "natural."The natural-wine movement has been sweeping France for a few years now, with stylishly dressed millennials in trendy wine bars in affluent urban neighborhoods cel...
  • Domestic Table Wines Grew By 5.3%

    California - Domestic table wine sales through March 21 grew at a healthy 5.3% annual rate over the previous 52-week period, as reflected in the latest retail data from Information Resources Inc. The off-premise market for domestic wines totaled $4.5 billion. In contrast, imports edged up just 0.3% ...
  • Cornell studying how to improve Finger Lakes Rieslings

    Rieslings already are putting the Finger Lakes wine region on the map.A group of Cornell University researchers is trying to make the variety even better. Among them is Anna Katharine Mansfield, an enologist who is nurturing the Riesling Terroir Project, which seeks to determine the defining charac...
  • Italy winemakers eye tweet sales with social media

    (Reuters) - Italian winemakers, usually wedded to centuries-old traditions, are slowly embracing Twitter, blogging and Facebook to boost sales that have been hit by the global economic crisis.Italy, the world's second-biggest wine producer after France, saw export sales drop 6 percent to 3.5 billion...
  • SA Wine Industry introduces world's first sustainability seal

    The South Africa wine industry has launched the world's first sustainability seal as a guarantee of eco-friendly production. Issued by the Wine and Spirit Board, the seal, intended for bottled wines only, is backed by a sophisticated tracking system in which bottle contents can be traced back to so...

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