Winemakers Blend Tradition and Technology
Live video chats where winemakers discuss the nuances of their latest vintages. QR codes on wine bottles that provide food-pairing ideas with a scan of a smartphone. Winery-hosted Twitter tastings where participants try wine at home and then discuss it virtually in...
Sunday liquor sales help fatten Virginia coffers
Alcohol sales are up across Virginia since lawmakers first allowed all state-run liquor stores to open their doors on Sunday. Sales at 339 state-run Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control retail stores shot up by nearly 4 percent since July 1, when the stores were...
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board spent $475K to hype own brands
Although state Liquor Control Board chief executive Joe Conti claimed his agency channeled no resources to promote its eight controversial in-house brands of wine and spirits, records obtained by the Tribune-Review tell a different story. The LCB spent nearly a...
Male and Female Wine Drinkers — Are They Really That Different?
“Women prefer white wine. Men only drink red. Women like sweet wine. Men purchase less wine.” These are just a few of the common myths that arise around wine and gender, but are they really true? One statistic on which we can rely is that the make-up of US wine...
Top U.S. Alcohol Researcher Joins Distilled Spirits Council to Head Industry’s Scientific Affairs Office
WASHINGTON, DC – (drinks media wire) – The Distilled Spirits Council (DISCUS) announced that one of the U.S. government’s former top alcohol research scientists will head up the industry trade association’s Office of Scientific Affairs and lead a multi-pronged,...
Report: Wine puts $13B into Napa economy
ST. HELENA — The total economic impact of Napa County’s grape and wine business last year was $13.3 billion inside the county line, $25.9 billion in California and more than $50 billion in the U.S., according to a study released today by a local trade group. These...
Wine boss pans lack of acumen
TREASURY Wine Estates chief executive David Dearie has criticised the Australian wine industry for being lazy, with poor marketing and lack of innovation and little understanding of the consumer. "We've been . . . a bit lazy, a bit fragmented (and) not a lot of money...
Treasury Wine Leasing Napa Vineyards to Meet Premium Demand Jump
Treasury Wine Estates Ltd. (TWE), the world’s second-biggest listed wine producer, is renting vineyards in California’s Napa and Australia’s Barossa valleys to get hold of grapes amid surging demand for high-end vintages. Where owners weren’t prepared to sell up, the...
New body to protect fine wine investors launches
The Wine Investment Association was officially launched today promising to set up regulations and processes that protect wine investments of private individuals. The new self-regulatory body has been set up in response to a series of high profile wine fraud cases...