October, 19, 2010 Chilean wine sales soar on back of mine triumph

Sales of Chilean wine in the UK soared as consumers celebrated the rescue of the 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months.Sales of Chilean wine in the UK soared as consumers celebrated the rescue of the 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months.Supermarket chain Waitrose ...

October, 19, 2010 Champagne continues fight against nuclear waste dump

The Champagne region is embroiled in a legal battle to prevent the French national atomic agency ANDRA from dumping nuclear waste near its vineyards. According to French press reports, the CIVC - Champagne's trade association - has asked the administrative court in Châlons-en-Champagne to cancel pe...

October, 19, 2010 Immigrant Wine Growers Shape Napa Valley

The American Dream always awakes and inspires recent immigrants. Napa Valley is no exception. Charles Krug, a 27-year-old Prussian immigrant, founded the first winery in 1861. Other Europeans, particularly Italians, Germans and French, followed. In 1966, Robert Mondavi, of Italian descent, built Nap...

October, 19, 2010 How Sweet it is: Wine Industry Owes Sweet Wine Drinkers HUGE Apology!

/PRNewswire/ -- A consumer study released today shows that physiology plays a major role in determining wine preferences and that White Zinfandel drinkers are often the most sensitive tasters shattering the myth about sweet wine consumers. The study was conducted in conjunction with the Consumer Win...

October, 18, 2010 State's pot crop worth $14 billion, dwarfs wine grapes

As cash crops go, marijuana is a whopper. The value of California’s 8.6 million-pound pot harvest is about $14 billion, dwarfing wine grapes at about $2 billion, according to state reports. Making it legal, as Proposition 19 on the Nov. 2 ballot proposes to do, presumably would allow banks to lend...

October, 18, 2010 Proposed Law Would Limit Interstate Wine Shipping

IT’S just one more anonymous warehouse here in a mundane industrial district, but within its humble walls lie 23,000 temperature- and humidity-controlled square feet of Garagiste, one of the quirkiest, least-known retail treasures in the wine world. Least-known, that is, unless you are one of the ...

October, 18, 2010 Vintner Opposes Prop. 23

California leads the world in many ways. Our agricultural economy is productive and diverse; we have made big gains in the quality of our air and water, and we are in the forefront of the clean energy industry. We should be using this leadership and innovation to keep moving forward and to help with...

October, 18, 2010 Pernod Ricard sells wine brands, assets for $88m to Lion Nathan

Pernod Ricard New Zealand, the local arm of the French liquor company, has sold a dozen wine brands and some wineries to a Lion Nathan New Zealand-led joint venture for $88 million. Lion Nathan will pick-up a dozen new wine brands including Lindauer, Corbans, and Saints, while its partner Indevin, ...