Wine Industry News
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(Marinij) - AS FAMILIES SIT DOWN to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal with loved ones this year, it's more likely than ever that a bottle of wine made right here in Marin will be on the table. At 200 acres, Marin's wine industry is positively tiny compared with its behemoth neighbors, Napa (45,000 acres)... -
(Wineland) - Containers and consequently wine tanks are basic cellar equipment, without which no cellar, whether boutique or bulk co-operative cellar, can operate. Since this is literally the home of wine, it also plays a decisive role in the vinification process and the subsequent storage of wine. ...Vineyard & Cellar Update: Different kinds of wine tanks
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(Wineland) - The basic fact that oak barrels consist of staves and heads means that there could potentially be a great variation in the flavour contribution of the individual staves and barrel heads of different barrels; moreover this raises the issue that barrels are likely to differ in this respec...Wine & Wood: Variation in the flavour contribution of oak barrels to wine
November, 24, 2011 -
(Businessweek) - Gov. Deval Patrick has signed into law a bill allowing beer and wine to be sold at more supermarkets in Massachusetts. The new law will gradually increase the number of liquor licenses that can be held by a single company. Companies that own multiple stores around the state ca...US: New law will allow more beer, wine sales in Massachusetts
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(Wines&Vines) - Ortman Family Wines, one of the more notable names of the Central Coast wine industry, will close by the end of December. Matt Ortman, winemaker and general manager, said the conjunction of a weak economy and increased competition within the wine industry motivated the closure the wi...US: Ortman Family Wines To Close
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(NYdailynews) - A California Pinot Noir produced by a small Sonoma winery that doesn’t own a single vine has been named Wine Spectator magazine’s Wine of the Year. The Kosta Browne Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 2009 was chosen from among 16,000 wines reviewed in blind tastings this year. Wines were...Wine of the year is California Pinot Noir; Wine Spectator dubs Kosta Browne Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 2009 tops
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(Mercurynews) - When Cesare Mondavi bought the Charles Krug Winery in 1943, he was acquiring a piece of history that dates back to 1861. Mondavi had been in the grape business in Lodi and was a partner in Sunny St. Helena (now Merryvale) in St. Helena. The Charles Krug Winery, founded by German immi...On Wine: Charles Krug and the Mondavis
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(Wines&Vines) - A year after the Holman Lang Group of wineries in B.C’s Okanagan Valley entered receivership, plans are afoot to open a new chapter on the last of the group’s wineries that was sold through the courts. Vancouver-based 6,000-case Paradise Ranch Wines Corp., a veteran ice wine prod...British Columbia: Paradise to Revive Bankrupt Winery
November, 24, 2011

