January, 30, 2016 Liv-Ex Fine Wine 50 Index Rises for Second Straight Month

(Bloomberg) - The Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 Index of leading Bordeaux wines climbed in January for the second straight month, marking its first back-to-back monthly gains since June and erasing the declines of October and November. The index rose to 269.17 on Jan. 29, up 1.6 percent since the star...

January, 30, 2016 California: Wine Country cashing in on Super Bowl 50

(KTVU) - It's not just San Francisco and Santa Clara cashing in on the Super Bowl. The spillover is stretching to the North Bay and to wine country.  100 miles from Santa Clara's Levi's Stadium (or 2 or so hours, depending on traffic), locals are finding a way to bridge the district.&n...

January, 29, 2016 The perfect pinot problem: When to harvest grapes for a yummy aroma

(Economist) - AS GRAPE varieties go, pinot noir is famously finicky. Got right, the thin-skinned grapes can produce some of the world’s finest wines. Central to that is plucking the grapes from the vine at the right time. Winemakers typically depend upon testing the level of sugar to determin...

January, 29, 2016 State’s Wine Industry Remains Strong Despite Threats From Drought, Smaller 2015 Crop

(Noozhawk) - With its lion’s share of the U.S. market, California’s wine industry continues to thrive despite some global uncertainty about the economy, the drought and competition from the booming craft beer industry, according to panelists at Unified Wine & Grape Symposium’...

January, 29, 2016 Millennials dominate US wine, says study

(TDB) - People aged between 21 and 38 are now the largest wine-drinking cohort in the US, a study from the Wine Market Council has found. Millennials now make up 36% of all US wine drinkers, overtaking ‘Baby Boomer’ 51-69 year-olds at 34% for the first time, the WMC survey found. ...

January, 28, 2016 Six Tips From A Digital Deep Dive Into Wine

(Forbes) - For this third and final post in our series about the annual State of the Wine Industry report,  released last week by Rob McMillan of Silicon Valley Bank , we take a deeper dive into digital. Paul Mabray, of the Yountville-based W 2 O Group – Vintank, presented findings in...

January, 28, 2016 Predicting the Wine Industry of Tomorrow

(Wines&Vines) - A panel of experts painted a picture of the “industry of tomorrow” during the general session today at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento. Winemakers and growers will be making more decisions based on data from complex sensor networks that will t...

January, 28, 2016 Buyout firm KKR takes Bain's place in Peroni, Grolsch auction: sources

(Reuters) - The line-up of bidders for SABMiller's ( SAB.L ) Peroni and Grolsch beers has changed, with U.S. private equity firm KKR ( KKR.N ) replacing Bain Capital, which was unwilling to engage in a bidding war with industry players, three sources familiar with the matter said. ...