April, 04, 2018 Pricey Wine Picks for On-Premise

(Wines&Vines) - Barrel auctions have proven an effective way to raise funds for charity and elevate the profile of wine regions. Premiere Napa Valley raised a record $4.1 million in February to support the work of Napa Valley Vintners, while last summer saw the annual Oregon Wine Experience ...

April, 04, 2018 Search for wine ‘smoke taint’ solutions intensifies after Northern California wildfires

(NBBJ) - The international pursuit of ways to predict how much smoke from a wildfire will end up in finished wine and what to do about it got a boost when the dark clouds of particles pumped out by the massive North Bay fires in October descended on the University of California, Davis, experimental...

April, 04, 2018 Carlyle splashes $770 million on Australian winemaker with eye on China

(Reuters) - Buyout giant Carlyle Group LP ( CG.O ) will buy Australia’s Accolade Wines from a local private equity firm for A$1 billion ($770 million), triple what the Australians paid seven years ago and underscoring the investment appeal of China’s wine market. The sale of Accola...

April, 02, 2018 China tariffs could help Australia gain share from US wine, nut and fruit producers

(CNBC) - China's tariff hit of up to 25 percent for U.S. agriculture could be a big gain potentially for Australia, particularly for wine and certain nut and fruit producers. "We've invested quite a lot of time and money in building the market in China for 15 years, and then this may force us to...

April, 02, 2018 Author says big wine money has ruined Napa and Sonoma may be next

(Petaluma360) - James Conaway is angry. Author and journalist, Conaway has been the foremost chronicler of Napa Valley for more than three decades. His “Napa: The Story of an American Eden” in 1990 told of the early pioneers who turned a family farming community in the valley into...

April, 02, 2018 How The Wind Is Making The Petaluma Gap California's Newest Wine Region

(Forbes) - Everyone knows that grapes are an essential ingredient for wine, but one natural — and unexpected — element is helping a newly designated wine region in California rise to prominence. "The Petaluma Gap is a special area for the following reason: the wind," says A...

March, 29, 2018 China Slaps Tariffs on 128 U.S. Products, Including Wine, Pork and Pipes

(NYTimes) - The Chinese government hit back Monday at President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum by acting on a threat to put tariffs as high as 25 percent on imports of 128 American-made products, including pork and seamless steel pipes. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce indicate...

March, 29, 2018 Industry ferment: US wine industry crushed over tariffs

(BBC) - In California's Livermore Valley, about an hour east of San Francisco, some 5,000 cases of Wente Vineyards wine are waiting in a warehouse, their journey to China suddenly suspended. The bottles have been caught up in a larger trade dispute, in which the US and China have exchanged threa...