February, 29, 2012 Canada: Wine Industry Losing Packaging Weight

(Sustainablebusinessforum) - Because of strict alcohol regulations in Canada, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario is the single largest buyer of wine in the world. Last year, they announced that by 2013, all bottles of wine that retail for less than $15 would have to weigh less than 420 grams when e...

February, 29, 2012 China: Shandong-made wines win over the world

(Chinadaily) - When Zhang Bishi founded China's first vineyard and winery in Yantai, Shandong province in 1892, there was no way he could have dreamed that, 120 years later, the wine would soon be known around the world. Changyu Pioneer Wine Co Ltd (Changyu), the company founded by the overseas C...

February, 29, 2012 BERGER: Seven pioneers inducted into Vintners' Hall of Fame at CIA

(Pressdemocrat) - Long ago, wine wasn’t an industry as much as it was a last resort in providing sustenance for a family. Often it was simply people making wine because it provided a living ... barely. An old Italian saying says, “Where nothing grows, plant grapes and olives.” Poor soils...

February, 29, 2012 Naked Champagne, the Making of Zero Dosage Champagne

(Palatepress) - Here in Champagne, one often says that champagne is first and foremost a wine. However the characteristics of this wine change significantly with the adding of the dosage (a mixture of base wine and cane sugar) at the time of disgorging. Today’s most popular Champagne style is b...

February, 28, 2012 US: Bay Area Wine Makers Lookout For Frost

(NBCBayarea) - Bay Area winemakers have endured an array of weather challenges over the last year; a cool summer, early rains, lack of rain and now warm temperatures that have brought some vineyards prematurely to life. Livermore winemakers said signs of life among the vines are not necessarily a...

February, 28, 2012 U.S. Wine to Overtake Italian Wine in Korea

(Chosun) - American wine is likely to overtake Italian wine in the market here as the Korea-U.S. free-trade agreement goes into effect. Lotte Department Store on Tuesday said U.S. wine, now in fourth place, will overtake Italian wine for the first time. Lotte came to the conclusion after a meeti...

February, 28, 2012 US: TX: Grand champion wine may get record bid at rodeo

(Chron) - One of the highlights of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo takes place Saturday night, and it could only be happening in Houston. It’s a wine auction. Only in H-Town, home to the biggest, best-attended rodeo on the planet by far, could bucking broncos and bottles of fine wine co-exist...

February, 28, 2012 British Columbia Wineries Await Answers

(Wines&Vines) - British Columbia finance minister Kevin Falcon unveiled the province’s budget last week with a pledge to sell B.C.’s government-owned liquor distribution business, including its warehousing facilities and associated distribution services. The plan is part of a liquidation of “s...