September, 03, 2013 Bordeaux 2013 harvest set for 20% drop

(Decanter) - Bordeaux is facing its smallest harvest since 1991, according to the Bordeaux Wine Bureau. A difficult spring, a wet early summer and a series of devastating hail storms have reduced the Bordeaux 2013 crop by around 20% versus 2012, which came in at 5.25m hectolitres, the Bureau s...

September, 03, 2013 Randox unveils fully-automated RX Monaco analyzer for wines

(DBR) - Randox Food Diagnostics, a UK-based distributor of Randox drug residue kits, wine testing kits and analyzers, has unveiled its recently validated RX Monaco wine analyzer for use by wineries. In comparison to the semi-automated RX Monza analyzer, which is currently being used in the wi...

September, 03, 2013 California: Siduri Touts Gluten-Free Wines

(Wines&Vines) - —Siduri Wines began testing the 2012 vintage of its multiple Pinot Noir wines to verify that levels of gluten post-bottling remain “undetectable,” according to winemaker Adam Lee. Lee already has bottled some 8,000 cases of three different 2012 Pinot Noirs, ...

September, 02, 2013 Golden Grapes

(FT) - Napa Valley’s 17,637 hectares of vineyard earn $13bn a year for the county. Napa is the most valuable wine name outside Europe. Napa: the simple, euphonious, universally pronounceable name makes a happy start. Vines, since they were first rooted in the valley in the late 1830s or ea...

September, 02, 2013 Texas Wines Take the Heat in $1.8 Billion Business

(Bloomberg) - Being the fifth largest wine grape and wine producing state in the U.S. might be worth boasting about, but Texas is not a state that takes fifth place lightly. With 275 bonded wineries producing 3 billion gallons annually and $1.8 billion in sales, Texas’s wine indu...

September, 02, 2013 Scientists sequence genome of high-value grape, seek secrets of wine's aroma

(Phys) -  Demystifying the chemical processes that create a wine's aroma, and the invaluable potential application of that understanding in winemaking, is the new objective of scientists in Uruguay who, with European partners, also recently sequenced the genome of the high-value Tannat grape, ...

September, 02, 2013 Sonoma Wine Harvest Auction raises $1.4 million

(PD) - A scantily clad Samba troupe, costumed in feathers and jewels and little else, created a colorful backdrop for a record-breaking afternoon of bidding at Sunday's Sonoma Harvest Wine Auction. Spiraling bids climbed to $1.4 million, up from last year's take of $750,000. About 600 people gat...

September, 02, 2013 California winemaker buys Yamhill vineyard

(StatesmanJournal) - Jackson Family Wines has added a winery and another vineyard to its growing presence in the Willamette Valley. The winery and 35 acre vineyard that is home to Soléna Estate in Yamhill County will become the latest addition to Jackson Family Wines’ global po...