September, 25, 2012 OREGON PART 2: ONE DAY IN WILLAMETTE VALLEY

(TheDrinksBusiness) - Willamette Valley is not one road of continuous wineries. You can stretch from the northern Chehalem Mountain AVA, south to Ribbon Ridge, west to the Yamhill-Carlton, south again to the McMinnville AVA or east to the Dundee Hills or to the southern-most Eola-Amity Hills. You wo...

September, 25, 2012 French vignerons ask government for insurance against bad harvests

(Decanter) - Independent winegrowers across France are calling on the government to underwrite an insurance scheme to protect them from the effects of bad harvests or currency fluctuations. As European aids such as crisis distillation and vine-grubbing schemes are coming to an end, winemakers are ho...

September, 25, 2012 California wine industry strong despite grape, labor shortages

(BizJournals) - Despite grape and labor shortages, many in the wine industry in California are predicting continued growth and prosperity, according to two surveys by the University of California Davis. Findings from the surveys of wine executives and winemakers were presented Tuesday at the Wine...

September, 25, 2012 Wall-Ye wine robot takes bow in France's Burgundy

(BangkokPost) - A new vineyard worker is looking for a job in France. White with red trim, 50 centimeters (20 inches) tall and 60 wide, he has four wheels, two arms and six cameras, prunes 600 vines per day, and never calls in sick. The Wall-Ye V.I.N. robot, brainchild of Burgundy-based inventor Chr...

September, 25, 2012 US: NY wine grape crop high in quality, lower yield

(AP) - This year's wine grape crop from upstate New York is high in quality with a bit less quantity. Growers say the warm early spring followed by a cold spell and a dry summer took a toll on the overall yield, but that the grapes that made it through are in good shape. "With warm, sunny days...

September, 25, 2012 Great European wine grapes, just not many to harvest

(Reuters) - Europe is in the midst of another crisis: not debt, but grapes. Yields are sharply lower, down nearly 40 percent in some of parts of Portugal, which means winemakers will have fewer grapes to blend and, in the end, fewer bottles to offer. The situation is even worse in parts of Burgun...

September, 25, 2012 Wine: Smooth Operator...

(NewWorldWinemakerBlog) - It all started in the mid eighteen hundreds, when a gentleman with the name of Antonin Prandtl, invented the first dairy centrifuge in order to separate cream from milk. At that stage he was working (probably with some sort of butter addiction) for himself and not for Cadbu...

September, 24, 2012 US: Wine Executives Reveal Optimism and Concerns

(Wines&Vines) - Each year, the Wine Industry Financial Symposium presents the results of a survey of wine industry executives conducted by Dr. Robert Smiley of the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management. Smiley shares the results of the study, completed with graduate research...