October, 31, 2011 US: Winemakers Go Native

(Independent) - It’s the poetry of abundance that gets most people giddy at harvest time — the heaping bins of grapes, the culmination of months in the vineyard, the crush. But for me the real thrill comes in the days following, when tanks begin to gurgle and emit their fragrant fumes. At that m...

October, 30, 2011 Treasury Wines is going more upmarket in exports

(Theaustralian) - TREASURY Wine Estates will inherit the mantle of Australia's biggest locally owned alcohol company in December, when shareholders in former stablemate Foster's are expected to approve a $12.3 billion takeover by British-South African beverage giant SABMiller. TWE managing direct...

October, 30, 2011 US: Idaho wine country continues to grow

(Tricityherald) - Tractors still dot the fruit-and-nut themed roads (plum, pecan, apricot) of Canyon County's Sunny Slope, but these days party-themed limousines and weekend wine tourists are also in evidence. Their quarry is a cluster of mostly small wineries with an increasingly big reputation....

October, 30, 2011 Russia to stop using 'Soviet Champagne' name

(Decanter) - Russian sparkling wine producers are to stop using the Shampanskoye name on labels after an historic agreement was reached at the weekend. Meeting at the Abrau-Durso winery in the country’s Krasnodar region near the Black Sea coast, members of the Russian Winegrower and Winemaker Unio...

October, 30, 2011 US: Brooklyn wine conoisseur stole $170K of expensive alcohols, scammed 23 people on WineCommune.com

(NYdailynews) - A portly Brooklyn wine connoisseur who stole $170,000 worth of high-end booze and bubbly will have to table his fine tastes for a while - and settle for prison chow. Federal Judge Jack Weinstein Friday sentenced limo driver Donald Trizzino, 50, to two years behind bars for scammin...

October, 30, 2011 NZ: Party over as wine profits plummet

(Stuff) - More than 70 vineyards for sale as wine profits plummet. Export wine prices have slumped to a new low as the industry struggles to cope with changes wrought by a massive increase in supply of Marlborough sauvignon blanc. Latest Overseas Merchandise Trade figures show that wine export...

October, 30, 2011 UK: Children 'drinking adult alcohol intake'

(BBC) - Children as young as 12 claimed they drank the equivalent of 19 glasses of wine per week when questioned for a UK-wide survey of 83,000 school pupils. Of those aged 12 or 13 questioned by the Schools Health Education Unit, 4% claimed they drank 28 units or more - more than the weekly adul...

October, 28, 2011 Glenmorangie Named 2011 Distiller of the Year by Wine Enthusiast Magazine

/PRNewswire/ — Glenmorangie has won the top honor in this year’s Wine Enthusiast Wine Star Awards in the Distiller of the Year category, beating out an impressive list of nominees. “We are extremely honored to be recognized by Wine Enthusiast for the great yet unseen lengths that we go to i...