April, 19, 2011 Insuring wine goes down the hatch, not up in smoke

(Reuters) - There's a growing market for insuring fine wine as even people who had never thought to insure their liquid assets, or don't even have a cellar, discover they have a valuable commodity. "There are people who have not thought of insuring and they have been collecting for years," Yannic...

April, 19, 2011 How Winemaking Is Like the Fashion Industry

Vineyard owners love to talk about unchanging traditions. But over the decades, the style of their wines has probably changed.The world of wine likes to tout the traditional aspects of winemaking: the long history, the sustainable farming practices, the low-tech methods that have been unchanged for ...

April, 18, 2011 An iPhone Wine App., iWineMaker, provides helpful winemaking calculators and tips

An iPhone application, iWineMaker is helping both winemakers and wine enthusiasts with their wine calculations and additions. iWineMaker is the most powerful winemaking tool, which provides the most useful Oenology Calculators and information about Winemaking on to go. You can download and review th...

April, 18, 2011 AUS: Chinese poised to snap up wine industry bargains

A wine industry advisory firm warns overseas buyers, especially from China, are queuing up in expectation Australian grape growers are about to hit rock bottom. A high Australian dollar, grape glut and a disease-affected vintage have pushed growers to their limits. Industry adviser Toby Langle...

April, 18, 2011 Chateau Latour and Christie's to run ex-cellar sale

Chateau Latour is looking to emulate the runaway success of Chateau Lafite's Hong Kong auction last year with its own extraordinary ex-cellar sale. Christie’s Hong Kong will offer offer bottles from vintages from 1863 to 2009 direct from the cellars of the chateau, on 27 May. All bottles have b...

April, 18, 2011 US Wine Law: Granholm vs. Heald a Case of Distribution and Glory

The business of wine isn’t quite as simple as planting grapes and watching them grow. If you are a wine professional, chances are at some point you will need legal advice. From acquisition of land to obeying strict export laws – understanding the legal structure of wine production is key to d...

April, 17, 2011 US: "Failure is not an option," Ted Turner tells Earth Day crowd at Iron Horse Winery event

The best way CNN founder Ted Turner could describe the environmental crisis facing humanity, as he sees it, on Sunday was with a baseball analogy: “It’s the seventh inning and we’re down by two runs,” Turner said. “We have to hold them where they are and put three runs on the board in t...

April, 17, 2011 India: Domestic wine industry grows 300%

India's domestic wine industry expanded nearly 300 per cent in the last decade to an estimated 13.5 million litres annually, according to a report by the US Department of Agriculture. According to the report, India has an estimated 60 functional wineries, with 30 more companies having registered ...