Wine Industry News
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(TheDrinksBusiness) - We count down the world’s largest beer brands according to case sales and consider their performance over the last year. Chinese beer brand Snow continues its dominance of the global beer market, although it is showing signs of slowing down. Coors light is the major mover ... -
(Wines&Vines) - Small wineries dominated the fast-growing market for direct-to-consumer wine shipments, according to a report to be released Monday by ShipCompliant and Wines & Vines. U.S. wineries producing less than 50,000 cases per year collected 74% of the $1.4 billion 12-month total for DtC shi...US: Wineries' Direct Shipments Reach $1.4 Billion
September, 24, 2012 -
(Decanter)- In an unprecedented move Moët and Chandon has announced it will be paying 4% more for its grapes this year compared with last. This is in a move to secure supplies as it seeks to increase production as its new facility at Mont Aigu in Oiry opens for business. ‘The leaders of the di...France: Moët forces grape prices up
September, 24, 2012 -
(TheDrinksBusiness) - Oregon wine country as we know it today really started to formulate in the 1960s. In 1961, Richard Sommer, a UC Davis graduate, began making wine south of Portland in the Umpqua Valley under the Hillcrest Vineyard label. In 1964, David Lett, ignoring UC Davis professor, Mayn...Oregon: Part 1 – 50 years in the making
September, 24, 2012 -
(WashingtonPost) - When Dominique Haverlan pastes the label “Vieux Chateau Gaubert” on his wine bottles, he proclaims this to his customers: I am selling you 400 years of French pedigree, the shadow of aged Palladian buildings restored at a cost of nearly $2 million, the fruit of 87 acres of vin...‘Chateau’ isn’t made in America, French vintners say
September, 23, 2012 -
(ABC) - The wine industry is adopting health warnings on labels, including about the risks to pregnant women of drinking alcohol. The Winemakers Federation said it wanted to extend the labelling push in a partnership with the organisation DrinkWise Australia. "[It] will give all winemakers the...AUS: Wine industry adopting health warnings
September, 23, 2012 -
(TheDrinksBusiness) - Atomic bomb tests conducted by the US military in the 1950s found that beer and soft drinks remained drinkable after a nuclear explosion. The experiment took place as part of Operation Teapot in 1955, with cans and bottles of beer and soft drinks placed in three positions ra...BEER STILL DRINKABLE AFTER NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE
September, 23, 2012 -
(Wines&Vines) - Government policies are critical to the success of wine industries around the world, according to a three-year study of wine industries and winery clusters from Algeria to Washington state. Earlier this year a survey of 33 of wine industry representatives from around the globe found ...Study: Government Critical to Wine Clusters
September, 21, 2012

