Wine Industry News

  • Praise for Tasmanian wine

    Tasmania has been touted as the 'most exciting wine area in Australia' by national industry group Wine Australia. Representatives from the organisation recently toured the state and praised the high quality of Tasmania's cool climate wines. They say Tasmania has escaped the effects of the wine...
  • Wines: Will global warming affect wine?

    The importance of climate for winegrowing is unbelievable. Although there have been many advances in winemaking, climate has remained the one element growers cannot control and which will determine the overall style of a wine as well as the quality of any given vintage. According to climatologists ...
  • Wine doesn't make women fat, report claims

    Researchers found that regular moderate female drinkers were less likely to become obese after a 13 year study of more than 19,000 women. The finding seems to contradict received dietary wisdom which has it that alcohol consumption leads to weight gain. The body may use calories from alcohol in...
  • Dealcoholised wine launched to combat alcohol abuse

    A new dealcoholised wine has been launched onto the Italian market, in an effort to combat alcohol abuse. The 0.5% wine is made from fully fermented wine that is vacuum distilled to reduce the alcohol content. The release of wine, called Winezero, follows Italian Agricultural Minister Luca Za...
  • Northern Sonoma County Wine Road - Barrel Tasting weekend

    The Northern Sonoma County Wine Road region, in Russian River Valley, Dry Creek Valley and Alexander Valley, is hosting their 32nd annual Barrel Tasting weekend on two weekends this year, March 6-7 and March 13-14, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day. Over 100 great wineries in this area are open ...
  • 'Pinotgate' controversy gives grape a bad name

    Could bungling by French vintners finally end our tortured love affair with Pinot Noir? The fallout of what we'll call Pinotgate began last month with 12 fraud convictions in a French court for selling to E&J Gallo wine labeled as Pinot Noir that was nothing of the sort; it was actually Merlot an...
  • Wine export gap after Chile quake

    AT THE risk of insensitivity, the earthquake that has affected Chile's previously robust wine industry has provided a rare glimmer of opportunity for an Australian sector that mostly has gone backwards. There are more than 100 million cases of Australian wine languishing in storage without throat...
  • For California Vintners, It's Not Easy Being Green

    (ScienceDaily)— "Green" labels do not pack the same wallop for California wines that they do for low-energy appliances, organically grown produce and other environmentally friendly products, but it's not because there's anything wrong with the wine, a new UCLA-led study has found. In fact, wines m...

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