December, 06, 2010 Australian wine production down 3.4% vs year ago

(MarketWatch) -- Australian wine production decreased in fiscal 2010, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics out Tuesday. Grape crush over the year totaled 1.6 million tonnes, down 7.5% year-on-year. The crush produced 1.1 billion liters of beverage wine, down 3.4% on last year. ...

December, 06, 2010 Functional Tech Group Sells Wine Yeast to Over 75 US Wineries

(Marketwire) - Functional Technologies, a world leader in yeast research and development, today announced sales results of its proprietary hydrogen sulfide (H2S)-preventing wine yeast into the key US market. In its first commercial season, the company's four Phyterra™ branded wine yeast strains, m...

December, 06, 2010 Lake County wine grape industry gaining identity despite economy

Over the past 20 years Lake County has worked to create its own identity and premium wine standing. There are now 32 wineries in the county and 8,400 acres of varietal wine grapes grown by 148 growers. Imports and the U.S. recession have hammered U.S. wine sales, particularly premium and ultra prem...

December, 05, 2010 Fiji Water Acquires Justin Vineyards as Winery Sales Increase

Billionaire Stewart Resnick’s Fiji Water LLC will acquire Justin Vineyards & Winery in Paso Robles, California, for an undisclosed price, adding upscale wine to his investments in bottled water and pomegranate juice. Justin, which makes about 50,000 cases of wine a year, was founded in 1981 by for...

December, 05, 2010 CA: Free our wine, and the rest will follow

he federal government should act on a motion by Ron Cannan, the MP for Kelowna-Lake Country, so that wine can flow more freely from province to province. It is strange for a federal statute to establish a whole set of interprovincial trade barriers. But the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act...

December, 05, 2010 Local winery's bold experiment: boxed vino

Promoting its new packaging as keeping its product fresher longer and customers costs lower, Albemarle County-based Virginia Wineworks this week will debut the state industry’s first wine bagged in a box for retail sale. Virginia Wineworks, based in the old Montdomaine Winery near Keane, will mark...

December, 04, 2010 Wine for Life: Italy group fights AIDS with wine

(Reuters) - Italy's quality wine producers are selling their finest vintages to help fight AIDS in Africa, fermenting the Latin proverb "In Vino Veritas," (In wine there is truth), into "In Vino Caritas" (In wine there is charity). "It's all about love, taking the love that we receive from nature, i...

December, 04, 2010 Let wine flow from Nagpur oranges!

NAGPUR: Technology to prepare wine from Nagpur orange has already been tried out successfully by some wine making industries. But, unfortunately not a single industry has come up in Vidarbha on any orange processing unit due to varied reasons including lack of political will on the part of local lea...