April, 16, 2015 Metrics Show Healthy U.S. Wine Industry

(Wines&Vines) - March brought very significant growth in direct-to-consumer shipments and the Winery Job Index compared to March 2014, plus steady growth in off-premise domestic wine sales. All three of these key indicators of U.S. wine industry health in March beat their 12-month averages. Win...

April, 15, 2015 Rabobank: U.S. Wine Market Tepid

(Wines&Vines) - Rabobank released the second (fiscal) quarter Rabobank Wine Quarterly today, containing its outlook for global and regional markets. The report is prepared by the company’s Food and Agriculture advisors under Stephen Rannekleiv. With headquarters in the Netherlands, Rab...

April, 15, 2015 Wine Counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan Appeals Conviction

(WineSpectator) - Lawyers for Rudy Kurniawan filed an appeal in New York on Monday challenging his 2013 conviction on charges of conspiracy to sell counterfeit wine. Their main argument is that an FBI search of Kurniawan's home, which turned up extensive evidence of counterfeiting, was unlawful...

April, 15, 2015 2014 California total grape acreage - 928,000

(WFP) - California’s 2014 grape acreage totaled 928,000 acres including 865,000 bearing acres and 63,000 non-bearing, according to National Agricultural Statistics Service in Sacramento, Calif. Wine grapes: The wine-type grape acreage is estimated at 615,000 acres. Of the total acres, 565,00...

April, 15, 2015 Wine industry vineyard acreage up 0.8 percent in California

(PD) - The amount of land devoted to producing grapes for California’s wine industry rose 0.8 percent last year to 615,000 acres, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Tuesday. Vineyard acreage in active production was unchanged at 565,000 acres, while non-bearing vineyards rose 11.1 p...

April, 15, 2015 Wine Snobs Are Right: Glass Shape Does Affect Flavor

(SA) - Seeing is smelling for a camera system developed by scientists in Japan that  images ethanol vapour escaping from a wine glass . And, perhaps most importantly, no wine is wasted in the process. Kohji Mitsubayashi, at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and colleagues impregnated...

April, 14, 2015 Does California Have Droughts?

(Wines&Vines) - With all the talk about the current drought, Garrett Buckland of Premiere Viticultural Services introduced some interesting perspective about water at a seminar on groundwater during the Napa Valley Grapegrowers’ sustainable vineyard series. He pointed out that Californ...

April, 14, 2015 How many calories in a glass of wine? The EU has the answer

(Cellarviewines) - Displaying the number of calories on wine labels might soon no longer be a choice as the European Parliament takes steps to make calorie counts on alcoholic drinks mandatory. According to Wine-Searcher, it has asked the European Commission to draw up a legislation that would r...