February, 05, 2018 So You Wanna Be a Wine Judge.Com

(TimAtkin) - Hello! And welcome to So You Wanna Be a Wine Judge.Com !, your online wine judge certification program. Once you complete this simple online course, you’ll be completely qualified to judge in any wine competition in the world! You may even be overqualified. It’s a little-k...

February, 05, 2018 Winemakers Turn to MIT to Save Pinot Noir in Warming Temperatures

(Bloomberg) - Biochemical engineer Jean-Francois Hamel has discovered the secrets to how natural yeasts affect flavors and alcohol levels in wine—and why they can help combat the potential effects of climate change. In a basement teaching laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Techno...

February, 05, 2018 Why Wine Corks Are On The Upswing

(Forbes) - The year 2009 struck a nadir point for the cork industry. Sales of wine corks had been declining since 2000, replaced by alternative closures that included aluminum screw caps, plastics and glass. The fall of cork had been predicted multiple times in the past. In 1993, The New York Times...

February, 05, 2018 How a Wine Newbie Got an Unexpected Education

(Winemag) - A writer finds a surprising source of knowledge and kinship in a big-box wine shop, meeting a teacher who inspires with his grandfatherly wisdom. W hen I was in my early 20s, I thought entering adulthood was simply a matter of checking tasks off a list: Graduate college. Get a job. ...

January, 24, 2018 Wine’s brewski moment: Canned wine is here, but can it avoid the down-market trap?

(SFChronicle) - Canned wine is at a crossroads. Once written off as a passing fad, canned wine now looks poised to become a permanent fixture of the wine shelf. By mid-2016 its meteoric popularity was apparent, with annual sales reaching $14.5 million according to analytics firm Nielsen — ...

January, 24, 2018 Economic impact of wildfires ‘overblown,’ says wine industry

(ModBee) - The wildfires that tore through Northern California wine country caused tourism to temporarily plummet but spared the vast majority of vineyard acres and had little impact on already harvested grape, said a panel of experts who weighed in Wednesday on the state of the industry. Still,...

January, 24, 2018 2018 Ushers in Favorable Wine Trends

(Wines&Vines) - Economist Mike Veseth opened the general session of the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium on a very positive note, telling the audience of several hundred that despite challenges including a severe labor shortage and increasingly fierce competition from imports and within the U...

January, 24, 2018 Spain’s 2017 harvest down 20%

(TDB) - Spain’s 2017 grape harvest is expected to be down by nearly 20% on 2016, according to provisional estimates by the Ministry of Agriculture, surpassing previous estimates of a 15% decline in the wake of spring frosts, heatwaves and drought. Provisionally, total production of wine and ...