July, 04, 2013 UK hailed as key market in global wine business

(OfflicenceNews) - Australia’s fourth-largest wine supplier hailed the UK as a key strategic market in the global wine business and said it will not turn its back on Britain in the face of a poor exchange rate and difficult trading conditions. McWilliam’s is ramping up its f...

July, 04, 2013 Italian wine exports closing gap with French cousins

(ANSA) - Turin, July 4 - The value of Italian wine exports increased by 10% in the first quarter of 2013, for a total of 1.1 billion euros, narrowing the gap with market champions France, winemakers' association Assoenologi said on Thursday. France's export value for 2012 was 7.8 billion euro...

July, 04, 2013 California: Eco-friendly wine pouches from St James Winery

(FoodBev) - St James Winery's Friendship School line of wines – Friendship School Red and Friendship School White – are available in outdoor-friendly pouches. Lightweight and portable with a built-in, cutout handle, each 1-litre pouch holds the equivalent of six glasses of wine. W...

July, 04, 2013 US: Heat Wave Warms Northwest Wine Grapes

(Wines&Vines) - While this vintage’s weather is unfolding largely as anticipated by Southern Oregon University weather watcher Greg Jones, who offered a forecast during remarks to the Oregon Wine Industry Symposium earlier this year, the high pressure system that’s been scorching th...

July, 03, 2013 Robert Mondavi, all-American pioneer

(WP) - Robert Mondavi would have turned 100 last month. His birthday was celebrated throughout California wine country, including at the annual Napa Valley Wine Auction he helped create and at the winery that bears his name. This seminal figure in the American wine industry, who died in May 200...

July, 03, 2013 France: Chateau Loudenne's new Chinese owners planning luxury hotel

(Decanter) - The Moutai Group, owners of Chateau Loudenne in Saint-Yzans-de-Medoc since April 2013, are planning to open a luxury hotel on the property. Zhong Huaili, president of Chateau Loudenne, spent two years looking at over 30 estates before deciding on the purchase of Loudenne, and now ...

July, 03, 2013 Why Europe is still the best place for wine-touring

(CNN) - New and Old World wines have been slugging it out with increasing ferocity ever since the popping of corks from Australian, South African and South American wines became audible in Europe a few decades ago. But while super-serious "Sideways"–style debates about bouquet and &ldqu...

July, 03, 2013 Wine history: Red, white and USA

(News-Press) - While the Fourth of July celebrates the birth of the USA, we wine fans can have a sober look at the history of this glorious beverage and America’s influence on it. After all, we did save wine for the rest of the world — but I’m getting ahead of myself. Here...