November, 18, 2011 Wine advances on China

(JancisRobinson) - 'A very famous Bordeaux Château is about to announce a major investment in China.' This was Li De Mei's tantalising sign-off at the end of perhaps the most relevant of many presentations given at a recent get-together of international wine luminaries in Hong Kong, WineFuture. Cou...

November, 18, 2011 France starts shipping beloved wine

(UPI) - Beaujolais nouveau -- drunk the same year the grapes are harvested -- celebrated its 60th anniversary with some 50 million bottles shipped, officials said. The release of the "primeur" wine on the third Thursday of November has become a major event in the wine calendar, featuring a race t...

November, 18, 2011 Coping with Climate, Controlling Leafroll

(Wines&Vines) - For Scott Williams, vineyard manager at Pacific Vineyard Co. in the Edna Valley, 2010 was the most difficult growing season he’d ever encountered—that is, until 2011 rolled around. “Our fruit set was pretty compromised, and it just seemed like everything was going wrong,” Wil...

November, 18, 2011 News Analysis - Could a paper wine bottle design really work?

(Designweek) - Design and sustainability experts say designs for a ready-for-production paper wine bottle, unveiled this week, are progressive and practical, although questions of aesthetics remain. The idea was conceived by ‘inveterate tinker, engineer and inventor’ Martin Myerscough, who says ...

November, 18, 2011 Chile calls on Hong Kong to solve fake wine mystery

(MonstersandCritics) - The Chilean consulate in Hong Kong has called on police to solve a mystery in which 100 crates of fake wine were found abandoned in the city, a news report said Friday. Consul-general Mario Ignacio Artaza told the Hong Kong Standard newspaper that he feared for the reputati...

November, 18, 2011 Beaujolais Nouveau: Oui ou Non?

(WSJ) - France has a love-hate relationship with Beaujolais Nouveau. Though the release of this gamay-only wine on the third Thursday of November is a much-awaited and high-profile event in France, many of the French turn up their noses at it: too young, too artificial or just too bad. Some pe...

November, 17, 2011 Winemaking: It’s NOT my year

(Montrealgazette) - I was tasting the wines of a young winemaker from Burgundy a few years ago. The subject turned to wine critics, and he told me, with a tone of contempt, “it takes three years from my vines flowering to when I put my wine to market. These people sit down, have a sip, and after a...

November, 17, 2011 Vintners Ask: Where Did the Tannin Go?

(Wines&Vines) - A harvest that veteran winemakers and growers called unlike any they had ever witnessed has come to a close, but the challenges are still fresh. That was the sense at the Napa Valley Grapegrowers’ Wine and Grape Expo held Nov. 16 at the Napa County Airport. Throughout the day, a br...