January, 24, 2016 New Zealand wine exports up 8.5% in volume, 13.1% in value on light harvest

(ODT) - Continued strong growth in export demand for New Zealand wine is rapidly depleting inventories after a light 2015 harvest. Rabobank's latest wine quarterly showed export volumes increased 8.5% in volume and 13.1% in value over the 10 months to October 2015. Average e...

January, 24, 2016 New wine industry domain names: pick .wine or .vin

(NVR) - Wineries, vintners, retailers and wine aficionados have two new homes on the Internet. Donuts Inc., a registry for new “not-com” domain names, announced that .wine and .vin domains are now available. “With more than 38.4 billion bottles of wine produced worldwide an...

January, 24, 2016 Australia: Five wine trends for 2016

(AFR) -  Pinot supremacy Ever since I went to Tasmania for the first time in the early 2000s and got excited about the generally superb vintages of that era, I have waited, patiently, for this cool and relatively dry region of Australia to consistently deliver what it has always promised. V...

January, 24, 2016 Heat and drought may shrink wine grape harvest in South Africa

(Wine.Co.Za) - The South African wine grape harvest may be significantly smaller, due to the decreasing effect of searing heat and drought throughout the season. This according to a harvest estimate by the industry in the second week of January. “Larger crops than in 2015 are expected in the...

January, 24, 2016 This California Vineyard Is Using Drones to Make Better Wine

(Fortune) - What goes into a great bottle of wine? Sensors, software, and scads of data analysis. Oh, and drones, of course. One day last fall, a drone lazily circled above Hahn Estate Winery, home to 1,100 acres of grapes in California’s Santa Lucia Highlands. The drone, a five-pound model...

January, 24, 2016 Upstate New York vineyards' ice wine harvest is late after mild start to winter

(News-Sentinel) - Winter finally came down hard on New York’s Finger Lakes this month with single-digit temperatures at dawn and fresh snow blowing over the rolling vineyards. The wait was over for an ice wine harvest. Thick-gloved workers briskly picked frozen bunches of grapes that would ...

January, 23, 2016 No, You Can’t Become a Winemaker Overnight

(WSJ) - JUST ABOUT ANYONE who has ever opened a bottle of wine has probably wondered about, and perhaps even envied, a winemaker’s job. It’s one of those professions that sounds terribly glamorous—an entree into a privileged world. The fact is it takes time, luck and a lot of heav...

January, 22, 2016 Landmark Vineyards buys historic Hop Kiln winery

(PD) - Landmark Vineyards has purchased the historic Hop Kiln winery on Westside Road, adding the Healdsburg address to its portfolio of premium properties located in the Sonoma Valley and Paso Robles. Landmark, owned by Stewart and Lynda Resnick, whose $4 billion Roll Global company owns Fiji W...