June, 15, 2017 Château de Sancerre has a new owner after Campari sells up

(Decanter) - Château de Sancerre in the Loire Valley is to be sold by Gruppo Campari to Loire-based Maison Ackerman for €20.5m, signalling the Italian company’s exit from the still wine business. The deal with Ackerman, wine division of French agri-business Terrena, include...

June, 15, 2017 UK: Majestic Wine suffers £1.5million loss as overhaul continues leaving shareholders with a bitter aftertaste

(Thisismoney) - Majestic Wine has reported a £1.5million loss this year as it continues with a bold overhaul. The figure for the year to April 3 was down £6.2million from last year's £4.7million profit. Underlying profits tumbled 29 per cent to £12.9million on surging ...

June, 15, 2017 How much sugar is in a glass of wine?

(TheGlobeandMail) -  Question Some wineries add sugar to dry red wines after fermentation so that they taste “smoother” to the palate. How can I find out how much sugar is in what I am drinking? Answer To find out how much sugar might have been added to a given wine, yo...

June, 15, 2017 Why blending wine is one of the fastest growing trends in the industry

(LATimes) - For better or worse, and in some cases both, American wine drinkers are in thrall with the Blend. The wines, composed of three, four, five or more unidentified and often disparate red varieties, emblazoned with flashy names and at times lurid identity systems, represent one of the faste...

June, 13, 2017 Freak hail storm hits Napa Valley vineyards

(Dacanter) - Hail stones the size of walnuts peppered north California over the weekend, causing bewilderment and consternation among Napa Valley winemakers. Freak hail storms struck the  Napa Valley  on Sunday 11 June. Thunderstorms brought lightning, wind, rain and hail—as w...

June, 13, 2017 Vine Mealybug Flares Up in Central Coast

(Wines&Vines) - A proliferation of vine mealybug (VMB) has many grapegrowers on California's Central Coast returning to the drawing board for treatment options.  “It’s definitely increased,” Greg Miller, Central Coast field representative for insecticide manufacturer N...

June, 13, 2017 FRANCE: Campari Exits Still Wine Business With New Sale

(KamCity) - Gruppo Campari no longer has a presence in the still wine business, following its decision to sell the French Château de Sancerre operations. The wine business has been sold to Maison Ackerman, the wine division of local company Terrena, for an enterprise value of €20...

June, 13, 2017 Police stopped CRAV wine activists headed for Bordeaux – report

(Decanter) - It is believed that French police have stopped a possible sabotage attack by French militant winemaker group CRAV - or CAV - in Bordeaux in the past month. Southern France’s violent wine activist group, the Comité Régional d’Action Viticole, better kno...