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How did the Texas winter storm impact 2021’s harvest?
The freak winter storm that rocked Texas in February 2021 left an immediate impact in myriad ways. The storm’s long-term impact on the Texas wine industry remained a mystery at the time, though there was a sense of cautious optimism among Lone Star State vintners when VinePair spoke with a few Texas wineries in March.
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Most expensive wine ever sold at auction goes for record USD$1 million
A six litre bottle of The Setting Wines 2019 Glass Slipper Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon has become the most expensive wine ever sold at auction, going for a whopping USD$1 million. A man named Don Steiner bought the bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon at a charity auction in New Orleans on 6 November.
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The end of gendering wine
In traditional wine writing, education and marketing, gendered language has been used to describe everything from texture to geographical region to level of skin contact. Structured wines are masculine. Velvety wines, feminine. Rich, tannic Napa reds are for him, while satiny, pink Provençal rosé is for her.
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US: let’s discuss lowering the legal drinking age
It has been years since any state seriously considered raising the age at which it is legal to drink. Last Thursday, Representative Todd Rutherford of South Carolina introduced House Bill 4512. If passed, it would lower the legal age in South Carolina for drinking and purchasing alcohol to 18 years of age.
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Yarra Yering’s Sarah Crowe crowned Gourmet Traveller winemaker of the year
Yarra Yering winemaker Sarah Crowe, who developed her skills over 11 years working in Hunter Valley wineries, has been declared the Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine 2021 Australian Winemaker of the Year.
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Shipping wine the old way gains favour
The Dietrich family makes its biodynamic wine in the rolling hills of Alsace, France. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Domaine Achillée’s wines is not how they’re produced but how they’re shipped. The Dietrichs export their crisp Riesling, sparkling Crémant, and funky plum wine on the wind-powered Grain de Sail. The 72-foot-long vessel is a […]
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Winery worker dies in China’s Xige after inhaling toxic fumes
One winery worker at China’s northwestern Xige Estate in Ningxia has died after inhaling toxic carbon dioxide during grape fermentation, the first known case reported by media in China’s domestic wine industry.
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Champagne Telmont goes after Asia
The Champagne house, backed by The Rémy Cointreau Group, plans to make Asia a priority market, with expansion into Singapore its first key step. Before The Rémy Cointreau Group became major shareholder for Champagne Telmont in October 2020, the brand’s presence in Asia was “extremely limited, with only a few distributors importing the brand in […]
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Master of Wine Symposium to go to Germany in 2023
The tenth international Master of Wine Symposium will take place in Germany in 2023, following the cancellation of the event in Adelaide, Australia, which had been planned for next year. Open to anyone to attend, the symposium will run over four days from 29 June to 2 July 2023, and will be hosted by the […]
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ProWine Shanghai comes to successful conclusion
ProWine Shanghai 2021, the leading wine and spirits trade fair in mainland China, came to a conclusion on 11 November after attracting more than 450 exhibitors from 18 countries and regions.
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The price of South African wine
Every now and then on social media, someone pops up and says that South African wines are too cheap. They should cost more and the suggestion is often made that the reason they don’t cost more is cultural cringe: South Africans, in some way, don’t have the confidence to price their wines high enough.
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Australia, the most rejected origin of wine in China
China’s crippling anti-dumping tariffs have essentially upended Australia’s wine market in China, and it appears any access to the market will be even harder for Australia. It ranks as the top country of origin rejected by Chinese customs upon entry.
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The most recent developments in the world’s largest wine market
Wine Intelligence ranks the United States of America as the most attractive wine market in the world. Wine Australia’s Market Update: United States of America, released this week, reports on the latest situation in the market, including economic forces, the alcoholic beverage landscape, wine consumption levels, and Australian export performance.
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Australian winemakers turn to science to help weather climate change
It’s a hectic time of year among the wineries of Orange, which are nestled in the fertile foothills of a long-extinct volcano. The southern hemisphere’s summer is about to start after a particularly wet spring, and vineyard owners are hustling to prep their crops before the precious grapes start to sprout.
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With borders closed, Australian winemakers raise a glass to the home crowd
As New South Wales emerges from a lengthy COVID-19 lockdown, winemakers the Hunter Valley have started toasting an influx of guests from travel-starved Sydney.
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Wildfire detection tech firm launches pilots in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake Counties
Detecting an industry ablaze with potential and government funding, San Francisco-based Pano has launched a pilot program with mountaintop camera stations that started to spot wildfires in the North San Francisco Bay late last year.
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