April, 05, 2016 The University of Minnesota Releases New Grape For White Wine

(CBSLocal) - The University of Minnesota has released a new cold-hardy grape that will be used in making white wines. Officials said Monday the wine grape has been named “Itasca,” and it will be used in making dry white wines. It’s the most recent in grapes released by the univer...

April, 05, 2016 Treasury Wines prunes around the edges

(Brisbanetimes) - Treasury Wine Estates is stepping up plans to divert funds into higher returning assets with the sale of vineyards, vacant land and homesteads in Australia's prime wine regions in the second tranche of a broader sell-off that will deliver a combined $10 million-plus. Treasury, th...

April, 05, 2016 Are millennials really drinking more wine than boomers?

(NBBJ) - The prediction that millennials would overtake baby boomers as key consumers of wine has been fermenting for several years, but the debate on whether that time has come is bubbling over amid conflicting reports. Rob McMillan, founder of Silicon Valley Bank’s Silicon Valley-based Pre...

April, 05, 2016 Rosé flowers in the US market

(Wineintelligence) - The market for rosé wines in the US is becoming more premium – and once again Millennials appear to be the agents of change The United States is the second largest market for rosé wine. Given the size of the wine drinking population (93 million and rising...

April, 05, 2016 This just in … Californians Save 1.19 Million Acre-Feet of Water, Enough to Supply Nearly 6 Million People for a Year

(Mavensnotebook) - Californians came just shy of meeting Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s 25 percent water conservation mandate for the nine months since mandatory urban conservation began. Statewide cumulative savings from June 2015 to February 2016 totaled 23.9 percent compared with the same ...

April, 05, 2016 FRENCH WINEMAKERS DRAIN SPANISH TANKERS

(TDB) - Angry French winemakers emptied five tanks filled with Spanish wine onto a motorway in protest against increasing imports into the country. The incident unfolded less that 10 miles from the Spanish border on April 4, when around 150 winegrowers from the southern departments of Aude and Pyr...

April, 04, 2016 California’s Wine Industry Leads the Nation in Economic Benefit

(Signalscv) - The nation’s multi-billion dollar wine, grape and grape product industries in the United States contribute more than $162 billion annually to the American economy, according to industry research firm MKF Research. Results of the study were presented Jan. 17 on Capitol Hill...

April, 04, 2016 Does Japan’s green tea white wine taste like tea, wine, or something else entirely?

(Rocketnews24) - Once we heard about matcha white wine from Kyoto, we knew we had to try it for ourselves. Recently, we found out about a selection of matcha green tea-based alcoholic beverages from Kyoto-based tea company Itokyuemon, so the next time we found ourselves feeling thirsty, we ...