December, 02, 2011 AUS: Blaze destroys more than $1m worth of wine

(Brisbanetimes) - Fire has destroyed more than $1 million worth of premium wine at a family-owned winery in Queensland's Granite Belt overnight. The Puglisi family, of Ballandean Estate Wines near Stanthorpe, have been devastated by the fire which extensively damaged a warehouse holding five year...

December, 02, 2011 India is developing a reputation for wine

(Independent) - Of all the great food and drink pairings, one of the UK's favourite in recent years has got to be curry and lager. However, despite being billed as the perfect complement to chilli and spice, Indian lager may now have found competition in its fruitier cousin, Indian wine. India pr...

December, 01, 2011 Global economic vitiviniculture data for 2011: stable wine production despite the fall in the world vineyard

(OIV) - The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV), the intergovernmental reference organisation for everything related to vine-based products, unveiled its report on the global economic vitiviniculture situation for the first ten months of 2011. Federico Castellucci, the OIV Director ...

December, 01, 2011 Some wine drinkers see red over screw-caps

(Bostonherald) - Wine snobs aren’t the only people popping their corks at the ever-increasing number of plastic screw-caps on wine bottles. “I tend to stay away from bottles that have twist-off tops. I don’t know what it is,” said Antonio Musto, 22, of Walpole. “There’s something abou...

December, 01, 2011 Traditional rice wine-making no successors?

(Chinadaily) - Wang Lijiao, a 61-year old wine maker, lives in a three hundred-year-old mansion at the center of Xiansai village near Qionghai city, Hainan province. Stepping into this old mansion, one can smell the mellow scent of Wang's home-made ricewine. Wang has been carrying on his ancestra...

December, 01, 2011 Not a grape in sight, but these beverages are still defined as wine

(Pennlive) - I wrote the other day about Cardinal Hollow’s (North Wales, Pa.) jalepeno wine and whiskey-barrel-aged mead, neither of which contain grapes. There are a number of other examples of beverages being sold as wine but not containing a single grape, such as Mt. Felix’s (Havre de Grace, ...

December, 01, 2011 US: Winery Clusters Foster Resilience

(Wines&Vines) - Winery clusters can bolster regional economic resilience, according to new research from Walla Walla Community College in partnership with Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. (ESMI) of Moscow, Idaho. Based on experience in Walla Walla, the research suggests that Oregon’s Umpqua Vall...

December, 01, 2011 US: Wine on tap is the hot new trend

(Pressdemocrat) - There's a new trend in wine packaging, and it borrows from its beer brethren. Restaurants have begun keeping wines in kegs, and pouring it out of a tap.Keeping wine on tap reduces packaging and storage space, saves time opening bottles — some of which might be corked — and allo...