Wine Industry News
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(Wines&Vines) - Each year, grapegrowers wait anxiously for bud break, but they’re always a little nervous when it occurs, for then the tender buds are highly susceptible to frost and even rain and hail damage. This week Wines & Vines surveyed growers from the Central Coast to the... -
(Drinksint) - The Chianti Classico Wine Consortium has founded a company that will handle marketing for the denomination. This is believed to be the first time a wine producer consortium has used such a way to meet new market challenges. The revamping of the denomination also in...Chianti Classico consortium founds a company
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(WineSpectator) - The other night I served to some guests what I thought was an absolute beauty of a dry white wine. We were having a simple fish dish and I figured that one of my beloved Muscadets was just the ticket. I figured wrong. "So tell me," said one of my guests in her most diplomati...How to "Get" Wine: Why so many good wines are underrated?
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(Actmedia) - Romania stays in top ten wine consumer worldwide ranking, in terms of taxed consumption, amounting to 22-24 litres per capita, Romania's representative to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) Catalin Paduraru said in the opening of Goodwine International Wine Fai...Romania stays in top ten wine consumer worldwide ranking, with 22-24 litres per capita
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(TheDrinksBusiness) - Craft brewers in the US are lobbying the Federal Government for a tax break but so are the larger brewers. The “Small Brewer Reinvestment and Expanding Workforce Act” of “Small BREW Act” seeks to reduce the tax paid on the first 60,000 barrels...US CRAFT BREWERS SEEK TAX BREAK
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(Decanter) - The owner of an estate in Lussac Saint Emilion has been fined €5,000, with a further €5,000 suspended, for adding oenological carbon to his finished wine. The adding of carbon is only allowed in red wines before or during vinification. The winemaker, who has not...Bordeaux owner fined for illegal addition of carbon
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(AFP) - The United States on Monday criticized the European Union's restrictions on wine labeling, saying they hinder US wine exports to the 27-nation bloc. The US Trade Representative's office said the EU's policy of seeking exclusive use of so-called traditional terms such as tawny, rub...US criticizes EU restrictions on wine labels
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(Wines&Vines) - Print the CCOF logo on your back label. Drive trade members to your website. Pass out marketing information and brochures. Representatives from sustainability-minded wineries discussed various ways that wineries promote their green initiatives March 26 at the San Francisco City ...Wineries Spread Sustainability Message
April, 02, 2013

