Tag: Italy

The Consorzio elects a president and vice presidents and continues with strategies and actions that are focused on foreign markets. On Wednesday 25th March during...

Screwcap triumphs over cork in maturation test: A selection of top Australian wines matured under both screwcap and cork led to "ground breaking" results during a blind tasting at this week's Vinitaly...

U.S. Authorities Sink Underwater Wine Maturation: Wineries will have to scuttle plans to age their wines under the sea after American authorities torpedoed the practice...

California sues Gallo Glass for use of hazardous materials in wine bottles: According to a lawsuit filed on behalf of the Department of Toxic Substance Control, California's top prosecutor accuses the company of illegally using recycled hazardous dust laced with lead, arsenic, cadmium and selenium...

GMO-free molecular genetics launch golden age of disease-resistant grapes: Advanced molecular genetic techniques are allowing scientists to breed disease resistance from wild grape varieties into susceptible domestic cultivars used for making wine, writes Andrew Walker...

In Vino Veritas. In Napa, Deceit. When you buy a bottle of Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon, you trust that the bottle is filled with wine actually made from cabernet sauvignon grapes that were grown in the heart of...

Sonoma County to be official 2016 Super Bowl wine: Sonoma County wine producers will be the official suppliers for Super Bowl 50 in the Bay Area 2016, it was announced Friday at an annual gathering of the county's tourism and wine industry boosters...

 Valpolicella's Golden Vineyards: Worth 4M Euro (Verona, 22nd January 2015). From grapes to a safe-haven asset, from vines to a protection from economic downturns: the...

The $300,000 of world-class wine whisked away from a Yountville restaurant last month has been found in a private cellar in North Carolina but who took it remains a mystery...

Breakout Year Ahead for U.S. Fine Wine Business: Silicon Valley Bank, a leading provider of commercial banking services to the innovation sector and the wine industry, released its Annual State of the Wine Industry Report in a live broadcast from the SVB TV studio today...

Sonoma and Napa counties grapple with winery outreach directly to consumers: Sixty percent of wineries in the unincorporated areas of Sonoma County have tasting rooms, compared with 90 percent in Napa County, according to planning officials who have been analyzing winery use permit activity recently and trends in response to a growing number of applications for more direct-to-consumer marketing and hospitality activities where the wine is made...

Jackson Family's Banke: 'I'd love to buy in Burgundy': Jackson Family Wines chairman Barbara Banke is determined to purchase an estate in Burgundy to sit alongside a growing list of properties around the world, she said in an exclusive interview for the latest issue of Decanter magazine...

Shoppers should take care when buying wine in clear glass bottles, says Wotwine, after 35% of wines in clear glass out of the 6,000 wines it sampled in the last two years exhibited signs of damage from light...

Treasury Wine Estates lawsuit an 'abuse of process': Melbourne solicitor Mark Elliott has vowed to press on with a class action against Treasury Wine Estates despite being told by Victoria's highest court that the lawsuit is a clear abuse of process...

‘Great Napa Valley wines will rival Bordeaux First Growths’: Moet-Hennessy Estates & Wine CEO: Jean-Guillaume Prats, Moet-Hennessy Estates and Wine CEO, says he believes great wine produced in Californias Napa Valley will rival the finest Bordeaux in future years...