January, 26, 2011 Foster's snaps up NZ winery stake

FOSTER'S has increased its exposure to New Zealand's Marlborough winegrowing region - home of Australia's current wine favourite, sauvignon blanc - by lifting its stake in one of the region's biggest contract wineries. Rapaura Vintners, which makes Marlborough wines for Babich Wines, Vavasour Wines ...

January, 26, 2011 AUS: Winemakers urged to address wine glut

A national grape growers body says the Hunter is in a good position compared to other wine producing regions, despite the current poor market conditions. The Wine Grape Growers of Australia group is urging winemakers around the country to work with the industry to address the long standing over-sup...

January, 26, 2011 California Grape Growers Bullish

Sacramento,CA — A normally cautious spokesman for California grapegrowers gave an uncharacteristically upbeat prognosis about the financial health of vineyards for 2011 at the bustling Unified Wine & Grape Symposium on Wednesday. Nat DiBuduo, the president of Allied Grape Growers, said that demand...

January, 26, 2011 Wine prices level off

SACRAMENTO — The economic storm that has battered the North Coast wine industry since 2008 appears to be over.Three years of slumping wine sales finally hit bottom in 2010, analysts said Wednesday at the annual Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento, the largest wine industry conference in t...

January, 25, 2011 UK: Government wine sell off urged

The Government is sitting on a wine cellar worth tens of thousands of pounds, an MP has revealed. Labour former minister Tom Watson (West Bromwich East) has asked the Government to reveal its wine list for more than 13 months but his requests have been continually rebuffed. On Tuesday, he was fina...

January, 25, 2011 Wine practices that leave a bad taste in my mouth

Ever wonder what the wine, spirits and beer industries would look like if consumers had more say? Your thirst for change is clear from my inbox. From rising alcohol levels to excessive restaurant booze markups to plastic corks so snug that they have to be extracted with the jaws of life, you’re ti...

January, 25, 2011 UC Davis to open Mondavi Institute for Wine, Food Science

The University of California Davis is set to celebrate the grand opening of a 34,000-square-foot teaching-and-research complex — the “world’s most environmentally sophisticated” facility for making wine, brewing beer and processing foods — on Friday in the courtyard of the Robert Mondavi I...

January, 25, 2011 Vineyard Labor and the Law

Sacramento, Calif.—Speakers representing human resources, academia and California agriculture exchanged ideas about vineyard labor this morning, and a comment from Mike Carlton, director of the labor division for the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association, summarized the overall message: “If you ...