October, 10, 2012 US: 'Epic' Harvest Kickstarts Oregon Teaching Winery

(Wines&Vines) - Weather is cooperating to deliver what vineyard managers and winemakers across Oregon are calling an “epic” harvest and “banner year,” it also is helping kick start production at the teaching winery at Umpqua Community College’s Danny Lang Teaching, Learning and Event Cente...

October, 10, 2012 Tbilisi's Soft Power of Wine, Smiles and Tourism

(TheMoscowTimes) - Nervousness was in the air the other afternoon when my S7 Airbus, packed with Russian tourists, touched down at Tbilisi's international airport. The tourists walked down a sparkling glass corridor to a terminal that Russian bombs narrowly missed four years earlier during the war w...

October, 10, 2012 UK lawmaker splashes out on English sparkling wine

(Reuters) - Controversial former Conservative Party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft on Wednesday uncorked plans to tap into Britain's burgeoning sparkling wine industry. The multi-millionaire member of Britain's upper house of parliament aims to produce 400,000 bottles a year from vineyards in souther...

October, 10, 2012 New World rises to the challenge of Europe's poor wine harvest

(Reuters) - North American winemakers are having a near perfect harvest this year in stark contrast to their European counterparts, who have suffered from bad timing and worse weather. In Portugal some vineyards are reporting yields down 40 percent and in parts of Burgundy in France hail storms h...

October, 09, 2012 Wine glut nearing an end: analysts

(ABC) - A new report on the international wine market gives grape growers and wine makers signs of hope that the global glut may be ending. Rabobank's latest wine quarterly for the three months to October says a massive global oversupply of wine between 2004-10, that depressed prices and led many...

October, 09, 2012 Rosé sold in plastic cup that was dismissed by Dragons’ Dean as ‘tacky’ has last laugh after winning wine Oscar

(DailyMail) - It was dismissed by the Dragons Den entrepreneurs as a novelty product without a future. However the company behind the ‘cup-a-wine’ concept – wine sold in plastic glasses with a tear off lid - has had the last laugh. First the product was snapped up by Marks & Spencer for ...

October, 09, 2012 USDA Grants Benefit California Wine

(Wines&Vines) - In spite of uncertainty about future agriculture programs due to Congressional failure to pass the 2012 Farm Bill, the California State Board of Food and Agriculture’s October meeting in Sacramento focused on the success of California projects that have benefitted from the U.S. Dep...

October, 09, 2012 Legend Cellars hit by $2.7m wine theft

(Decanter) - A former employee of wine storage business Legend Cellars is accused of stealing US$2.7m-worth of wine from private clients' lockers. George Osumi, who is the father of Legend Cellars' current president, Scott Osumi, attempted to cover his tracks by replacing the stolen wines with 'much...