March, 16, 2010 Nanocork™, Innovative Cork Wine Closure, offers Winemakers An Alternative

Nanocork™, the newest product in the wine closure market worldwide, offers wine producers the means to retain fresh fruit flavours and a long finish in white, rosé, and non-reductive red wines without concern about TCA contamination. An alternative to synthetic closures and screwcap, ACI Cork USA...

March, 16, 2010 Wine & Spirits Wholesalers spend $280K on lobbying

WASHINGTON(AP) — The Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America spent $280,000 in the fourth quarter lobbying the federal government on food safety and transportation, according to a recent disclosure report. That's up from the $240,000 the group spent in the year-ago period and the $260,000 it sp...

March, 15, 2010 Cameron Diaz, Recession Can’t Stop Winemakers in ‘Ugly’ Economy

(Bloomberg) - Vintner Ben Sharp was waiting to meet a distributor at a New York cafe last year when he spotted actress Cameron Diaz at a nearby table.“I thought, ‘The wine is a really important deal, but you see a celebrity and you get butterflies,” said Sharp, owner of Capture Wines in Califo...

March, 15, 2010 Microscopic Photography Reveals Bacteria Destroying Grape Plant Cell Wall

ScienceDaily — Like a band of detectives surveying the movement of a criminal, researchers using photographic technology have caught at least one culprit in the act.In this case, electron microscopy was used to watch a deadly bacteria breakdown cell walls in wine grape plants -- an image that prev...

March, 14, 2010 Thousands turn out for Sonoma County wine barrel tasting

Kevin Robinson traveled more than 500 miles from Orange County this week to taste Sonoma County wines, but his friends from Nashville did him one better. For their sixth consecutive year, the friends flew 2,000 miles to participate in the second and final weekend of this year’s Wine Road Barrel...

March, 14, 2010 Bulgaria's Largest Wine Expo Opened in Plovdiv

Bulgaria’s largest international commercial exhibit of wines “Vinaria 2010” was opened in Plovdiv Sunday by Economy Minister Traicho Traikov. In his opening statement, Traikov declared that the wine production sector in Bulgaria is developing as a combination of old traditions and new techn...

March, 13, 2010 HK Wine market may continue to boost

(Xinhua News Agency)- The wine market in Hong Kong, which developed rapidly in the past two years, may continue to boost, with its role as a "transfer station" for wine imports of Chinese mainland highlighted, said Jacky Cheung, the president of the Wine Association of Hong Kong during Wine Expo 201...

March, 12, 2010 US Wine Exports Down In Europe, Up In Asia

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. winemakers can be happy world consumers are buying their products in a tight economy, though exports were down in 2009 from 2008's record-setting year. Wine exports dropped nearly 15 percent last year. The largest decrease -- 21 percent -- was in shipments to the European Uni...