October, 04, 2010 How Many Stink Bugs to Ruin Wine?

Keedysville, Md. -- How many stink bugs does it take to make a wine stinky? That was a question which, until recently, no one on the East Coast (or elsewhere) knew the answer to -- or even thought to ask. As long as stink bugs in vineyards were the native varieties, they were not a problem: Native s...

October, 04, 2010 Asda sued over frog in wine bottle

A woman is suing UK supermarket Asda after buying a bottle of wine from the supermarket – which allegedly contained a frog. Isolde Beesley says the small frog fell out of the bottle of Spanish wine and into her glass during a family celebration. Ms Beesley, from Leicestershire, says she has s...

October, 04, 2010 pH this, pH that

We are all taught how important pH is in winemaking. A low pH makes SO2 perform better by having a larger percentage of molecular SO2, it makes bentonite settle better, it keeps bad bugs at bay, and generally is something to brag about when you are gathered around a barrel at the end of the day. All...

October, 04, 2010 Altria Group Inc. gets taste of wine business

Virginia's wine enthusiasts might not have noticed it, but one of the state's largest companies has ventured into the wine business in a big way.It happened without a lot of fanfare because the company, Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc., is better known for cigarettes than chardonnays....

October, 03, 2010 Romanee-Conti Lifts Sotheby’s $13.8 Million Hong Kong Wine Sale

(Bloomberg) -- Burgundy’s Domaine de la Romanee- Conti led Sotheby’s two-day wine sale in Hong Kong, where Asian buyers branched out from top Bordeaux labels like Chateau Lafite Rothschild to extend their dominance in the global wine market. The auctions tallied HK$107 million ($13.8 million)...

October, 03, 2010 Foster's revamps European wine operations ahead of split from beer

FOSTER'S has restructured its key European wine operations to better reflect a historic shift of the beverage company's earnings away from traditional heavyweights Britain and Ireland and towards its growing customer base on the mainland, especially Scandinavia. The reorganisation of its manageme...

October, 02, 2010 Wine and sympathy

Penfolds is the rare producer where the job description for its winemakers includes playing therapist for its customers. Since 1991, the famous Australian winery has travelled the world and recorked nearly 100,000 bottles of its wines. These free clinics are open to anyone with Penfolds wines tha...

October, 02, 2010 Chinese Wine Speculators Pushing Up Prices

BEIJING - Even though many treat wine merely as another must-have luxury, wealthy Chinese are already making a splash in the wine futures market.Chinese buyers are the main force causing the French fine wine index to shoot up 37 per cent from one year ago and 24 per cent this year, Shanghai-based in...