Category: International Wine Industry News
Blog: Don’t waste the moment or the trend – stick better wine in cans
Wine in cans is becoming increasingly popular and could be a significant segment of the future wine market – both off-trade and on trade – so long as we don’t throw away the opportunity, argues Mike Turner. Overcoming prejudice amongst wine drinkers will not happen, though, unless we start putting better wine in cans and […]
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Vinexpo Shanghai 2020 goes digital
The second Vinexpo Shanghai, taking place from 21 to 23 October, is being transformed into a 100% digital event. The current situation has made it impossible to hold a ‘brick and mortar’ event. Vinexposium is therefore seizing the opportunity to launch its new digital platform Vinexposium.Connect at Vinexpo Shanghai.
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Organic growth a ‘global phenomenon’, helping reboot depressed wine market
Against a backdrop of globally dampened wine market, organic wine sales are predicted to rise from a 2.8% share of world wine sales to 4% by 2024, potentially representing an increasingly important driver of recovery.
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Sustainability of wine packaging alternatives: What are consumers’ perceptions?
Glass is the most commonly used packaging for wine worldwide. However, one of the main causes of environmental impacts of the wine life cycle is the production of glass bottles due to the high incidence of its weight and the consequent huge consumption of energy for its production.
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Wine imports are drying up in China
Despite successfully containing the coronavirus spread within mainland China, China’s wine consumption has yet to bounce back to pre-COVID level, with imports still sliding in both volume and value for the first seven months of the year.
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In California’s wine country, undocumented grape pickers forced to work in fire evacuation zones
Grape growers in Sonoma County are getting exemptions to send in farmworkers who have few alternatives or options for support. For the workers, their hands were forced by a combination of circumstances as toxic as the ash that falls over the region’s famous vineyards: the economic drive to keep the wine industry going; the lack […]
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Cork Supply claims to have eliminated TCA
Calling it a major breakthrough, Portugal-based Cork Supply has introduced a two-step extraction process that guarantees all of its natural cork stoppers are 99.85 percent TCA-free with no off-aromas, a figure the company says has not been achieved “anywhere else in the world.” All cork stoppers are put through both technological processes at no extra […]
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US: some wineries not taking grapes without lab tests amid testing backlog
While harvest is underway and a prolonged period of excessive heat is expected, California growers are reporting that some wineries are saying they will not be accepting grapes they contracted for until lab results show the grapes aren’t adversely affected by smoke exposure as the result of wildfires that broke out in California two weeks […]
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How much has the pandemic hurt the wine business?
It’s a running joke among those of us who pay attention to the wine business that almost all the sales figures you read here and elsewhere are unreliable; the best numbers are educated guesses that have been fine-tuned based on the data that is available. There are many reasons for this, including the fact that […]
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China doubles down on Australian wine dispute
Chinese authorities have launched a second probe into Australian wine, claiming government subsidies could infringe on current trade rules. As reported by Vino Joy News, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce posted a statement on its website announcing the launch of an anti-subsidy investigation into Australian wine exports in two litres or less. The investigation, like […]
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Wineries need to prep to sustain rise in online sales beyond the coronavirus pandemic
In April and May, as the state was tossed into shutdown mode triggered by the coronavirus, the mandate may have provided a turning point, if not a wakeup call, for the wine industry when it comes to direct-to-consumer sales, according to the CEO of a Napa-based leader in selling wine online.
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WSET Asia Pacific launches student bursary fund to increase access to WSET courses
The Wine & Spirit Education Trust’s Asia Pacific subsidiary, WSET Asia Pacific, has launched a bursary fund to provide access to WSET courses for students in the Asia Pacific region who would not otherwise be able to afford this opportunity. Set up in collaboration with companies, organisations and individual philanthropists in the region, the fund […]
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Adding colour to wine
September will see the launch of The Colour of Wine, the first in a three part online series of events aimed at raising awareness of the contribution of people of colour in the drinks trade.
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The rise of low-intervention winemaking
Industry buzzwords come and go, but “hands-off” winemaking has remained oddly persistent. Well regarded for environmentally friendly practices and minimal use of additives, hands-off vinification has become a favoured style of winemaking for vignerons across the globe. However, this minimalist way of working actually involves more intervention than you might think.
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Data omission in key EPA insecticide study shows need for review of industry analysis
For nearly 50 years, a statistical omission tantamount to data falsification sat undiscovered in a critical study at the heart of regulating one of the most controversial and widely used pesticides in America. Chlorpyrifos, an insecticide created in the late 1960s by the Dow Chemical Co., has been linked to serious health problems, especially in […]
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Putting a traditional grapegrowing theory to the test
Historically, there are many winemaking practices that may or may not exactly be backed-up scientifically. This article examines one of those practices/theories: that small grapes produce better red wines.
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