April, 20, 2016 NZ: Wine harvest predicted to surpass 2015 vintage

(Stuff) - New Zealand's strong export market should be able to let wine producers cope with the  2016 vintage, which is shaping up to be larger than last year's. Michael Cooper said a just released Rabobank report on the size of the vintage was supported by anecdotal evidence from grow...

April, 20, 2016 Vintner Bill Foley buys Stryker Sonoma Winery in Geyserville

(PD) - Vintner Bill Foley has expanded his Sonoma County wine empire by buying the Stryker Sonoma Winery in Geyserville from owner Pat Stryker. The purchase this week by Foley Family Wines of Healdsburg includes the inventory, a production facility that can produce up to 20,000 cases annually an...

April, 20, 2016 Vinitaly and OperaWine put wine at the center of Verona in April

(WineSpectator) - For four days every spring, Verona becomes the center of the wine world. Vinitaly, one of the principal global wine fairs, takes over this beautiful, ancient city on the Adige river and turns it into a non-stop spectacle, a trade show and business conference that morphs into ...

April, 20, 2016 A Wine Mogul Says Fidelity Cheated Him Out of Millions

(Bloomberg) - Peter Deutsch hit it big bringing affordable Australian wine to the U.S. Then he poured a fortune into a troubled Chinese stock. And when his brokerage stood in his way, he fought back. As Peter Deutsch sat  in his spacious lakeside getaway in upstate New York one steamy July...

April, 20, 2016 LONDON GETS ITS FIRST “NAKED” RESTAURANT

(TDB) - From the city that brought you The Naked Chef comes the world’s first “naked” restaurant, a central London pop-up due to open in June. Billed as “London’s first naked food experience”, the three-month pop-up, called The Bunyadi, will encourage din...

April, 19, 2016 Spraying mistake costs Marlborough grapegrowers around $1.6 million

(Stuff) - A contractor has sprayed seven Marlborough vineyards with the wrong chemical, costing the grapegrowers around $1.6 million in lost revenue, a viticulturist says. The affected vineyards, about 5 kilometres from Blenheim in the Wairau Plain, were sprayed usi...

April, 19, 2016 France: New Crémant de Bourgogne ranking agreed

(Decanter) - Burgundy producers have approved a new ranking system for sparkling wine Crémant de Bourgogne, to include 'Eminent' and 'Grand Eminent' levels. Around one in 10 bottles of wine produced in Burgundy is Crémant de Bourgogne and the local producers’ union (UPECB) ha...

April, 19, 2016 Chile: Turning copper into wine

(FT) - The bottles of Great Wall, Changyu and Dragon Seal wine line up like sentries on the shelf behind Cristián López China is the world’s largest market for red wine, which should be enough to put it on the radar of any winemaker. But as the business seeks to recover from ...