March, 04, 2010 For California Vintners, It's Not Easy Being Green

(ScienceDaily)— "Green" labels do not pack the same wallop for California wines that they do for low-energy appliances, organically grown produce and other environmentally friendly products, but it's not because there's anything wrong with the wine, a new UCLA-led study has found. In fact, wines m...

March, 04, 2010 Fifty wine lovers ‘handed over up to £100,000 each’ in scam

UK - Six people have been arrested in connection with a huge wine investment scam that has netted a gang more than £3 million in just over two months. Officers carried out a series of raids yesterday at two business premises and a number of residential addresses in the Docklands area of London and ...

March, 03, 2010 US wine drinkers file lawsuit over fake Pinot Noir

(AFP) — A California lawyer has filed a class action lawsuit against French wine producers and a US importer over the sale of millions of bottles of wine falsely passed off as Pinot Noir. "A class action complaint has been filed seeking to represent all California consumers who purchased falsel...

March, 03, 2010 Slowing economy takes toll on Oregon wine industry

A flagging overall economy took its toll on Oregon's wine industry in 2009, ending a 15-year string of increasing case sales and overall dollar values. Case sales of Oregon wine fell by five percent from 2008 levels, from about 1.75 million to 1.66 million, while total dollars realized from thos...

March, 03, 2010 Chile's Wine Industry Estimates $250 Million Loss

As rescue efforts continue, wineries prepare for harvest and estimate a loss of almost 14 million cases of wine. Despite strong aftershocks that continued to rumble Wednesday in devastated areas of Chile following Saturday's massive 8.8 earthquake, the wine industry is beginning to get a clearer pi...

March, 03, 2010 Wineries May Pay for Budget Shortfall

British Columbia considers increasing wine mark-ups to recoup tax reductions. Hard on the heels of an outcry in Washington state, the hurdles to entering the neighboring British Columbia market -- issues the Washington Wine Commission hopes to resolve soon -- the province’s cash-strapped governmen...

March, 03, 2010 Foster's adds new drops after wine cull

BEVERAGE major Foster's is extending the range of key wine brands following a savage culling of underperforming labels. The release of its Bin range of premium Penfolds wines, which went on sale this week, includes two new offerings -- Bin 23 Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir and Reserve Bin aged Release...

March, 02, 2010 Do Oil Sprays Delay Grape Ripening?

California -- Using horticultural oils to control powdery mildew and suppress grape leafhopper, mite, scale and mealybug is becoming a popular tool of integrated pest management (IPM) in vineyards, but Laura Breyer of Breyer's Vineyard IPM Service in Windsor says that questions have been raised abou...