Wine Industry News

  • In Germany, a Highway Threatens the Mosel Wine Region

    Despite the chill pouring in through the open window next to my desk, spring is here. For me, that means thoughts turn to riesling, German riesling in particular. In a few weeks I will post our wine panel report on the 2008 Mosel kabinetts, a rare and marvelous vintage for these lovely, delicate ...
  • California company brings wine testing to UCC

    Umpqua Community College intends to add a few more letters and a lot of prominence to its wine program with a renowned laboratory promising to open shop on campus. On March 17, ETS Laboratories founder and President Gordon Burns sent a letter to the local college committing to open a wine-testing...
  • Future of the domestic wine industry is in VQA

    Canada - Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor is correct in defending his government's legislative changes because they will redress imbalances that currently favor the Cellared-in-Canada hegemony.Anthony Bristow, chairman of the Winery & Grower Alliance of Ontario and chief operating officer of Grimsby-ba...
  • Grape genome mapping could boost harvests and wine quality

    American researchers have identified specific genetic markers in the grape genome to improve the fruit quality, and disease and pest resistance, and could quicken the development of better grapes. A team comprising computational biologists and geneticists from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Ser...
  • The 20 wine trends to avoid in 2010

    WINESTEIN UNCORKED When I floated to the office the idea of a column on what wine trends should never again enter the mainstream, it quickly transformed from a top 5 list to something like a top 20 in the space of a tweet. Talk soon turned from bad wine trends to spirits and, predictably, beer -...
  • California Promotes Wine Exports in Europe

    Germany - Wineries from Argentina, Chile, New Zealand and South Africa compete fiercely with California vintners to sell more wine in the U.S. market. Yet here at the annual international wine fair, ProWein, these competitors called a truce to jointly promote their wines to export markets around the...
  • Moderate drinking helps heart, but don't binge

    (Reuters) - One or two alcoholic drinks a day can help healthy people-and heart patients-live longer, new research confirms.But the two new studies-one of nearly 250,000 US adults, the other an analysis of eight previous studies of more than 16,000 people with heart disease and other problems relate...
  • Protection of wine prices in Spain

    Spain - Ministry of Agriculture to withdraw wine from market in attempt to push up prices Over the next few weeks the Ministry for the Environment and Agriculture will put into action a plan to withdraw two million hectolitres of wine before distillation at a price of around 1.85 euros per hectogra...

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