Fuente: Washington Post By Dave McIntyreWednesday, February 3, 2010Winter is a quiet time for a winery, a chance for winemakers to catch their breath after the frenzy of harvest, get caught up on paperwork, maybe even take a vacation. The transition between vintages has already begun. Last years wines sleep peacefully in tank or [...]

Fuente: Business Standard While champagne bottles have been popped up in various industries to celebrate their recovery from recession, the wine industry in Maharashtra is still enduring the bitter taste of the downturn. The sector is incurring huge losses this year also with poor sales and drop in grape production as millions of litres [...]

Fuente: La República El concurso se realizará del 22 al 25 de febrero en la provincia de Mendoza, y contará con un jurado integrado por 12 degustadores extranjeros provenientes de Estados Unidos, Canadá, Reino Unido, Brasil, Alemania, Nueva Zelanda, Finlandia y Suecia, y seis nacionales.Integrado por 12 degustadores extranjeros provenientes de Estados [...]

Fuente: Santa Rosa Press Democrat California wineries and vineyards that prove they tread lightly on the land can now be certified as "sustainable" through a new program launched Wednesday.Click to enlargeClos du Bois pumps the water used in the winery into treatment ponds with stateoftheart equipment for pumping and aeration. The water is used [...]

Fuente: Reuters By Marcel MichelsonPARIS (Reuters Life) Collecting wine is no longer a privilege of just the super wealthy now that special investment funds have sprouted amid a search for alternative assets to traditional stocks and bonds.But they may take away some of the fun of drinking.Winebased investments received a shot in the [...]

Fuente: ABC News John Conover was looking for the best place to grow the Napa Valleys famous cabernet sauvignon grapes. Turns out the same southwestfacing, sunny hillside that gives him great grapes also raises a mean crop of solar panels.We wanted to be as green as we can be, says Conover, a partner in [...]

Fuente: Stock and Land BILL CALABRIA, the owner of West End Estate at Griffith, began his brutal round of interviews in June last year. He called each of his growers one by one to the winery for a meeting.They knew to expect bad news. Some brought their sons, others their wives the wine [...]

Fuente: El Cronista Comercial Novecento Sparkling Wine presenta su nueva identidad con un diseño aggiornado a la nuevas tendencias. De estilo elegante y exclusivo, busca transmitir los principales valores de la marca, asociados a un estilo sociable y descontracturado. Con un perfil innovador se dirige a jóvenes consumidores (25/45 años) que valoran una excelente [...]

Fuente: Infobae De la mano de Wine Supply, comercializadora de vinos premium, bebidas destiladas y productos de alta gama, una nueva bebida premium desembarca en el mercado argentino.Se trata de Alexander Grappa, la grappa ultra premium número uno del mundo de la compañía italiana productora de espirituosas Distilleria Bottega.Según los datos difundidos en un [...]

Fuente: El Mercurio Luego que en 2008 Lapostolle se alzara con el primer lugar del ranking Top 100 que hace año a año la revista Wine Spectator (WS), había expectación por la performance de los vinos chilenos este año.Pero si hace doce meses la revista estadounidense dejó a Clos Apalta 2005 como el mejor [...]

Fuente: Norte Hay dos opiniones en el mundo enológico que no pasan desapercibidas y generan modas a la que no se pueden sustraer los amantes de vino. La de la revista Wine Spectator es una de ellas. Pues bien, en su última lista de los cien mejores del mundo 2009 se ha situado [...]

Fuente: Europa Press La Organización Interprofesional del Vino de Rioja, en la reunión de su Junta Directiva celebrada el lunes, valoró de forma unánime la celebración de Wine Future Rioja 2009 como muy satisfactoria al haber cumplido todas las expectativas y exigencias que en calidad de patrocinadores principales del evento se habían planteado el [...]

Fuente: Europa Press WinefutureRioja09 será el epicentro mundial del sector del vino los días 12 y 13 de noviembre en la ciudad de Logroño. Lo será, no sólo por las 940 personas que integran el evento, sino por el altísimo nivel de representación de cada uno de estos sectores involucrados en la industria vitivinícola. [...]

Fuente: Europa Press El Congreso WineFuture Rioja09 y The Wine Academy of Spain se suman a la iniciativa Wine in Moderation. La Federación Española del Vino desarrolla este programa europeo, cuyo lema es El vino solo se disfruta con moderación. Paulina Campo, directora ejecutiva de The Wine Academy of Spain, y Pau [...]

Fuente: News 24 AUSTRALIAN wine exports increased in volume but declined in value in the latest financial year.The Australian Wine and Brandy Corporations annual report says wine exports increased six per cent to 750 million litres in 2008/09.However, in value terms they declined 10 per cent to 2.43 billion with an average price decline [...]

Fuente: Reuters SACRAMENTO, Calif.(Business Wire)Next January, Sacramento, Calif., will become the center of the wine and grapeworld as thousands of industry professionals gather for the 2010 Unified Wine &Grape Symposium, one of the largest events of its kind in the WesternHemisphere. The 2010 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, which takes place at the SacramentoConvention [...]

Fuente: Reuters SACRAMENTO, Calif.(Business Wire)Next January, Sacramento, Calif., will become the center of the wine and grapeworld as thousands of industry professionals gather for the 2010 Unified Wine &Grape Symposium, one of the largest events of its kind in the WesternHemisphere. The 2010 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, which takes place at the SacramentoConvention [...]

Fuente: San Francisco Chronicle The popular microblogging service is partnering in a unique fund raising drive with Room to Read, a San Francisco nonprofit organization that establishes schools and libraries for children in developing countries in Asia and Africa. According to its Web site, Room to Read has established 765 schools and filled 7,168 [...]

Fuente: AFP By Polly Hui (AFP) – 1 day ago
HONG KONG – Hong Kong has overtaken New York and London as the largest wine market for two of worlds biggest auction houses, the firms said Tuesday, highlighting a trend spurred by surging demand from China.
Sothebys said its wine auction held in the southern Chinese [...]

Fuente: Reuters By Adam Tanner
TREBINJE, Bosnia (Reuters Life!) – In stubbornly unstable Bosnia, Alex Kostovics investment in vineyards requires a leap of faith, which is just as well because his minority partner is the Serbian Orthodox Church.
“I really dont see anywhere in Europe a better place than ex-Yugoslavia for investment,” the Serbian American said [...]

Fuente: SYS CON Media (Marketwire) — 09/22/09 — WineLoc Packaging Products, established in August 2009, launched an economical EPS (expanded polystyrene) wine shipping container that offers cost-effective protection and superior thermal performance for wine shipments. WineLoc EPS and molded pulp wine shipping containers can be easily ordered online at http://www.wineloc.com and are distributed nationwide [...]

Fuente: Reuters MADISON, Wis., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — This harvest season,
viticulture students from VESTA, an alliance of Midwest colleges and
winemaking businesses, are learning the process of turning grapes into wine
via online courses. The program uses Mediasite by Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq:
SOFO), to deliver instruction to students from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
VESTA, [...]

Fuente: Statesman Journal Perched atop a hillside just outside of Dallas, you can admire the views from the winery at Illahe after driving up the main road past the rows of grapes in the vineyard. If youre lucky, you might even catch sight of horses working in the vineyard.
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Fuente: Stock and Land FOLLOWING the internationally acclaimed, inaugural 2009 Landmark Australia Tutorial, Wine Australia on Friday announced the 2010 Landmark Australia Tutorial will take place in the Yarra Valley in September next year.
For the first time, Wine Australia is inviting applications from Australia´s leading wine professionals to join the best and brightest opinion [...]