May, 12, 2011 South Africa’s Wine Grape Crop May Increase 1.4% This Season, VinPro Says

South Africa’s wine grape crop will be 1.28 million metric tons this season, up 1.4 percent from last year, according to industry group VinPro. The crop will yield 992.5 million liters, including juice and concentrate for non-alcoholic purposes, wine for brandy and distilling wine, or 1 percent...

May, 12, 2011 Will this be English wine's best ever year?

The Queen's new vineyard in Windsor Great Park is not the only moving relationship the royal family has with English wine. And there. (Not British wine, note. British wine is made from fermented imported concentrate and your grandma may have kept a bottle under the sink in case of blockages. The des...

May, 12, 2011 US: Oregon wine region waiting to be discovered

Maybe it's climate change. Everywhere you look these days there seem to be new wineries popping up. Washington County, just west of Portland, Oregon is the latest region to register a big hit on the wine radar, and while the county lacks the sophistication of famous Napa Valley in California, that m...

May, 11, 2011 US becomes Canada's third-largest supplier

The US has become Canada’s third-largest wine supplier with exports increasing by one third in 2010. Ontario: 'world's largest wine buyer'' Canada bought 30% more wine in 2010 than in the previous year, totalling US$269m, according to American government statistics. There was also a subs...

May, 11, 2011 Chinese executive in 'Lafite' scandal disciplined

An executive at Chinese petroleum giant Sinopec has been demoted after it was discovered he spent millions on alcohol – including the finest cru classe Bordeaux. Lu Guangyu, the general manager of operations in Guangdong for state oil giant Sinopec spent some 1.6 million yuan (US$245,000) of compa...

May, 11, 2011 California: North Coast grape market begins to recover

NAPA — Grape growers, who are traditionally the last in the wine industry to benefit from an economic recovery, are finally starting to see a rebound in both prices and interest from buyers.Wineries are now committing to buying more premium grapes — and paying higher prices — for the first tim...

May, 11, 2011 China: 2000-year-old wine unearthed in Henan province

A Western Han dynasty ancient tomb group was accidentally found at a construction site in Puyang city, China's Henan province, on April 10. After a period of protective excavation of the tomb group, archaeologists found more than 230 ancient tombs in all, and a total of more than 600 cultural relic...

May, 11, 2011 ARGENTINA: Wine exports up in Q1

Thirst for Argentine wine rose in key export markets in the first quarter of 2011, according to the latest figures from Wines of Argentina. Wine exports rose by 8% in the three months to the end of March, to 62.9m litres, said the trade body at the end of last week. Bottled wine exports increased...