October, 26, 2017 Wholesalers Block Shipping to 36 States

(Wine-Searcher) - It's not shippers blocking interstate wine delivery, it's the wholesalers, argues Liza B. Zimmerman. It has been a busy week for wine executives. First Amazon withdrew from the online wine sales marketplace and then both FedEx and UPS declared they would only allow reta...

October, 26, 2017 Terroir is a tycoon game that takes you from vine to wine

(Venturebeat) - Lots of folks enjoy a glass of good wine, but  Terroir  offers another way to appreciate the fruits of labor. It’s a simulation game where you can run your own vineyard. It’s developer General Interactive Co.’s debut, and it’s out now for PC and Mac...

October, 26, 2017 Harvest under dry climates: High Sugar vs. High Color.

(FruitionSciences) - In this blog we discuss why adapting harvest date to a warming environment is challenging …and why you may not have to trade off sugar concentration to get high color concentration. Higher sugar concentrations at harvest are often associated with an increase in temper...

October, 25, 2017 Oregon Wineries Grapple with Big Harvest

(Wines&Vines) - Three inches of rain that fell across the northern Willamette Valley this past weekend has largely put the brakes on the 2017 wine grape harvest, leaving winemakers to juggle the final influx of fruit while some growers scramble to salvage what grapes are left and find a buyer f...

October, 25, 2017 New nonprofit ‘Rebuild North Bay’ launched to address wildfire recovery

(PD) - More than 250 high-profile community leaders converged Wednesday at Sonoma State University to mark the launch of a new regional organization created to unite the public and private sectors in their efforts to help North Bay counties recover from the deadly wildfires that have ravaged m...

October, 25, 2017 Moët Hennessy Diageo picks W Asia as comms partner

(MarketingInteractive) - Moët Hennessy Diageo has appointed W Asia as its communications partner. The brief will see W Asia work closely with the Moët Hennessy Diageo team to develop impactful comms campaigns for its key brands in Singapore.  This will include its champagne and wi...

October, 25, 2017 NASA satellite image shows impact of Wine Country fires

(PD) - NASA has released a new image showing just how much land was lost to the deadly wildfires that hit Sonoma, Napa and surrounding counties earlier this month. The image, taken by an instrument on the organization's Terra satellite on Saturday and released Tuesday, shows the region's gr...

October, 24, 2017 Global wine production down in 2017 due to severe drought conditions

(UPI) -- An international winery organization said Tuesday that global wine production is expected to fall this year -- due largely to severe weather conditions that have hamstrung key regions of the industry. The Paris-based International Organization of Vine and Vineyards, a 46-nation adv...