While consumers may know Prosecco as an off-dry, fruity fizz, new styles are emerging. Giles Fallowfield took a look.
Wine Business International
17. February 2019 - 14:00
A new study overturns previous thinking about sex-based differences in wine tasting, concluding that male and female judges award much the same points to the same wines. Liza B. Zimmerman reports.
17. February 2019 - 13:45
Laurent and Catherine Delaunay started with one car, one computer and a mobile phone shaped like a brick. From those small beginnings they have built a 15m bottle company. Felicity Carter spoke with Laurent Delaunay about what opportunities he sees remaining in wine - and the threats on the horizon.
13. February 2019 - 10:30
A new report forecasts strong demand for low to no alcohol wines. Sophie Kevany reports on whether the wine trade can meet that demand.
16. September 2008 - 13:00
by Kevin McCallum at the Press Democrat
16. September 2008 - 13:00
by Subhash Arora
India’s minister for horticulture in the state of Karnataka, Umesh Katti, has announced establishment of two wine parks in his state as public-private partnership projects to increase grape cultivation and quality wine production. by Subhash Arora
15. September 2008 - 13:00
by Michelle Locke from AP
A high-tech shipping label now being used by some in the industry aims to warn customers if there's a chance they're getting cooked Cabernet. About the size of a sugar packet, the labels can be programmed for a range of temperatures and placed directly on the product or its packaging. A light flashes green if the product stays within specifications and yellow if it doesn't.
15. September 2008 - 13:00
from Liz Gunnison at portfolio.com
In its latest expansion, Amazon.com is looking to sell wine online. But it may stumble the same way other Internet retailers have: It's still not possible to ship legally to many US states, and for others, it requires investment, such as having a brick-and-mortar etail outlet in that state.
15. September 2008 - 13:00
by Joseph Chaney at Reuters
China could become the industry's next Chile: a font of quality and affordable wines. China's wine industry is expected to grow to roughly $13.7bn in 2010, up from $10.5bn in 2007, according to research from Euromonitor, and experts say it could be the world's eighth largest wine consumer by 2012.
14. September 2008 - 13:00
by Ken Gargett
Dr James Kennedy, associate professor at Oregon State University's Department of Food Science and Technology, will join the Australian Wine Research Institute as a research manager from the beginning of 2009.
13. September 2008 - 13:00
by Cathy van Zyl MW
The South African Wine & Spirit Board (SAWB) has agreed that Riesling, rather than Crouchen, is Riesling and that it may be bottled for sale in South Africa without the ‘Rhine’ or ‘Weisser’ prefix - but only from the 2010 harvest.