January, 16, 2012 US:CA: Sonoma Seeks Wine Image

(Wines&Vines) - When wine drinkers pick up a good bottle of wine priced higher than $15, they choose a Sonoma County label only 5% of the time. Vintners in Sonoma County hope to double that rate to 10%, and are pinning their hopes on a new branding campaign to crystallize the image of Sonoma County ...

January, 16, 2012 Fake football agent defrauds Luxembourg merchant

(Decanter) - Luxembourg wine merchant has been has defrauded of thousands of Euros of wine by a man posing as the agent for a premier league footballer. Some of the stolen wine – €26,100 of Ausone, Latour, Lafite, Petrus and Margaux – has subsequently been offered to the UK fine wine trade. ...

January, 16, 2012 US is biggest wine consumer, China joins top five; People paying more money for better vino

(NYDailynews) - US consumers were the world's top wine drinkers in 2011, while China displaced Britain to become the fifth largest wine consumer, according to new research released on Thursday. US consumers downed the equivalent of 3.7 billion bottles of wine, while China including Hong Kong dran...

January, 16, 2012 US: Pennsylvania Retailers lukewarm on newest wine sales idea

(Thetimes-tribune) - In Pennsylvania, consumers go one place to buy beer and another place to buy wine and spirits. But that could change.As lawmakers mulled over proposals to change that system - including one as dramatic as privatizing state-run wine and spirit stores - another proposal was throw...

January, 16, 2012 US: Feds create Coombsville, Fort Ross-Seaview appellations

(NBBJ) - Two new tightly focused American Viticultural Areas budded in the North Coast last week. Effective Jan. 13, the U.S. Trade & Tax Bureau established AVAs for Coombsville in southern Napa Valley and for Fort Ross-Seaview in western Sonoma County. The 11,075-acre Coombsville subappellation ...

January, 16, 2012 Great wines – easily made with Viniflora® Freasy™ - Chr. Hansen

(Chr.Hansen) - Get smooth, well-driven malolactic fermentations with new frozen wine culture from Chr. Hansen. Groundbreaking technology now available to small and medium sized wineries Great wines – easily made with Viniflora® Freasy™ Global wine producers and purchasers are focusing their...

January, 16, 2012 Bordeaux Goes Unsold, Price Qualms Damp $18.7 Million Sales

(Bloomberg) - Lots of first growth Bordeaux, including Chateau Lafite-Rothschild and Chateau Margaux, went unsold in a $18.7 million test of demand for fine wine. Wealthy Chinese and other collectors focused on the very best older vintages and Burgundies such as DRC Domaine de la Romanee-Conti at...

January, 15, 2012 Croatia looks to grow exports of its wines

(Journalgazette) - When Croatia was part of Yugoslavia, government policies forced farmers to rip out 395,368 acres of vineyards. Ethnic conflicts in the 1990s destroyed thousands more. Now, with about 82,000 acres under vines – still more than double the amount of New Zealand – Croatia is lo...