January, 06, 2011 Why isn't more wine 'organic'?

Sulfites are forbidden in organic products by the USDA, but most winemakers consider the preservative crucial in winemaking, so few wineries want the label. This sounds familiar: a national consumer group is fighting to maintain organic standards against industry people who want to weaken them. But...

January, 05, 2011 Treasure in Winery Trash

Napa, Calif.—Wineries may soon be finding a small treasure in the waste they now pay to discard. Food & Vine Inc., a Napa-based company that specializes in grapeseed oil and related products, is introducing presses that wineries can use to extract valuable oil. The company also plans to process th...

January, 05, 2011 Wine Dealers Warn of Lafite Price Bubble as Auctions Double on Asia Demand

Surging demand in Asia for Chateau Lafite and other prestige French wines may be causing a bubble, dealers said.The warning for 2011 comes after the three biggest wine auctioneers had final sales figures of $259.3 million for 2010, more than double 2009, according to Bloomberg calculations....

January, 04, 2011 Optical Sorters Hasten Harvest

High-tech photos and precise air blasts identify and remove MOG.Grapes, stems and leaves are photographed as they enter the Delta Vistalys optical sorter. After a week of unseasonably high temperatures, the sky darkened and cast a somber, uneven light across the crush pad at Clos Pegase winery in N...

January, 04, 2011 Flash Extraction Goes to Work

Winemakers excited about effects on phenolics, flavor isolation.The 6,000-gallon stainless steel tank doesn’t stand out much at the Monterey Wine Co., a custom crush facility in King City, Calif., that can process 9,000 tons per year. But the intermittent explosions—pop, pop, pop, every few seco...

January, 04, 2011 Toasting History: 500 Years of Wine Drinking in Ancient Greece

How commonly used items – like wine drinking cups – change through time can tell us a lot about those times, according to University of Cincinnati research to be presented Jan. 7 by Kathleen Lynch, UC associate professor of classics, at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Ameri...

January, 03, 2011 Spanish company comes up with new shape for wine bottles

The bottle has been developed in conjunction with the top Spanish chef, Martín Berasategui.A Spanish company has picked up a top award in Paris for its new revolutionary wine bottle. The bottle’s design is based on a sort of false bottom, with a lip at the base of the bottle which acts in the sam...

January, 03, 2011 Georgian wine enjoys export boost

Exports of Georgian wine saw an upturn in 2010, the agriculture ministry said on Friday, although the industry is still struggling to revive itself after losing its biggest foreign market in Russia. Fifteen million bottles were exported over the past year - a 34 percent increase on 2009, ministry s...