News Category: Industry

• Water Treatment System and Specialized Equipment Are the Focus for New Patz & Hall

  Patz & Hall, known for high quality Chardonnay and Pinot Noir will open the doors to their new winery in Sonoma this week.
  
  The new 30,000 square foot facility was selected by the wine producers for a couple of key reasons. "Waste water was a consideration," Donald Patz said.

  Posted on 2007-05-04 at 12:58

• After vanishing 150 years ago, grape reappears in spicy wines from Chile

  Take a deeply colored, rich and spicy red wine from Chile made from a mysterious grape that was lost to growers for more than a century. Add the creative energy of the Madison Avenue ad man who helped launch Diet Coke and a wine exec who helped develop wines in boxes. And what do you have?

  Posted on 2007-05-04 at 12:57

• Chardonnay from Napa Valley and its subappellations

  When buying Napa Valley Chardonnay, there's one geographic point to keep in mind: Carneros is way better than points north.

  Posted on 2007-05-04 at 12:54

• Texas Grape Industry to Discuss Pierce's Disease Outlook for State

  Grape growers and wine industry leaders will meet with top Texas researchers here on May 21 to discuss strategies to combat Pierce's Disease, a condition that can be devastating to vineyards.
  
  The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. at the Texas Tech University-Highland Lakes, 806 Steve Hawkins Parkway, Marble Falls.

  Posted on 2007-05-01 at 01:32

• Proclamation Signed to Designate September 2007 as California Wine Month

  Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared September 2007 California Wine Month in a proclamation praising California's wine community for strengthening the state's economy and highlighting the ideal climate, beautiful scenery, geographic diversity and unparalleled expertise of its grape growers and vintners. This is the third consecutive year that Governor Schwarzenegger has honored the state's wine industry.

  Posted on 2007-05-01 at 01:30

• News from the Pennsylvania General Assembly

  The Senate confirmed seven nominees to serve in Gov. Ed Rendell's cabinet: Revenue Secretary Tom Wolf; General Services Secretary James P. Creedon; Transportation Secretary Allen D. Biehler; Community and Economic Development Secretary Dennis Yablonsky; Aging Secretary Nora Dowd Eisenhower; Health Secretary Dr. Calvin Johnson; and Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff. All are returning from Rendell's first term, except for Wolf.

  Posted on 2007-04-26 at 02:49

• UST Reports First Quarter 2007 Results: Returns to Growth, Raises Guidance, Increases Share Repurchase Plan

  UST Inc. (NYSE:
  UST) today reported that the significant investments initiated in 2006 to
  stabilize premium moist smokeless tobacco net unit volume, expand its wine
  operations and implement Project Momentum, a three-year, $100 million cost
  reduction initiative, have resulted in the Company returning to top and
  bottom line growth in the first quarter 2007. During the quarter, the
  Company continued to make progress growing its operations, while at the
  same time maximizing the return on the sale of its corporate headquarters
  and resolving one of the last few remaining indirect purchaser antitrust
  cases.

  Posted on 2007-04-26 at 02:47

• Washington wines: Best in the U.S.?

  Washington wines are hot right now. Washington is ranked second nationally in wine production with nearly 500 wineries, 350 grape growers, and over 31,000 acres of vineyard. No other wine region in the U.S. has grown as dramatically with as much diversity as Washington.

  Posted on 2007-04-26 at 02:45

• If You Can't Get To The Award-Winning Wine… LoveWashingtonWine.com Brings The Wine To You

  Wines recently awarded honors by Wine Spectator and Washington CEO Magazine now available from Love Washington Wine.

  Posted on 2007-04-24 at 03:31

• Another choice in selecting a bottle of wine

  What's a green wine drinker to do? The cork versus screw cap battle is getting increasingly dirty. The issue of environmental credentials has entered the fight and that is yet to have closure - so to speak. So for the wine drinker with a green tinge, how do they stack up?

  Posted on 2007-04-24 at 03:28

• China's newly rich developing taste for fine wine

  BMWs and Gucci handbags are already firm favourites among China's emerging class of newly rich. Now, fine wines are becoming the latest symbol of luxury.

  Posted on 2007-04-24 at 03:25

• Is global warming traced to powerful wine critic?

  So it is that Robert Parker, founder of The Wine Advocate, has been called the most powerful wine critic, not only in America, but the world. Fair or not, he has been blamed for, and credited with, much of the current economic status of individual wines.
  Parker is best known for popularizing the 100-point scale to rate wines, and if he gives a high number to a heretofore unrecognized wine, its value increases immediately. A low score does not mean certain doom to other wines, but it certainly doesn't do anything for their current market strength.

  Posted on 2007-04-23 at 03:30

• Earth Day means more now amid climate-change debate

  In the future, a spring ski trip to Mammoth could find no snow. California zinfandel grapes could shrivel into raisins. Zuma Beach could become Zuma Seafloor.
  On the first Earth Day, celebrated 37 years ago, global warming was not a hot topic. People drove big, V-8 cars, burned leaves in their yards and tossed out their bottles and newspapers.

  Posted on 2007-04-23 at 03:24

• PLCB Presents '2007 Wine Week' With Festivals in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia

  Some of the
  world's best wines will be showcased beginning this weekend at the fifth
  annual Pittsburgh Wine Festival and the sixth annual Philadelphia Wine
  Festival.

  Posted on 2007-04-23 at 03:21

• Leading Article: A global warning from the dust bowl of Australia

  Australia is in the midst of a crippling drought, the country's worst on record. Many towns and cities have been forced to enact drastic water restrictions as reservoirs have run dry. Rivers have been reduced to a trickle. The drought has severely damaged the agricultural sector. Farmers are raising emaciated cattle and sheep. Cotton-lint production has plummeted. Wine grape and rice output has collapsed. Agricultural production has fallen by almost one-quarter in a year. And it is estimated that the drought has knocked three-quarters to 1 per cent off the country's growth as a whole.

  Posted on 2007-04-20 at 12:57

• New wine from historic Mount Veeder vineyard

  Driving up a one-lane dirt road to the rugged Brandlin Vineyard one understands its isolation and can anticipate the views from the top of the ridge.

  Posted on 2007-04-20 at 12:56

• Man, 35, seeks grapes for serious relationship

  Central Coast winemaking whiz kid Andrew Murray splits from his parents and strikes out on his own

  Posted on 2007-04-20 at 12:47

• Wine industry eyes crop damage from Easter freeze

  First, it was apples. Now, the grapes are the latest crop to suffer from this month's cold weather.
  
  The state's wine industry is waiting to see if theirs is the latest crop to be affected by the Easter weekend freeze.

  Posted on 2007-04-19 at 01:47

• Firestone family among the first producers of Southern California wine

  Like his grandfather who founded the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Brooks Firestone is a pioneer, an entrepreneur and a visionary.

  Posted on 2007-04-19 at 01:46

• Sicily's Feudo Arancio Vineyard Goes Modern With Clean Wines

  Lucio Matricardi, high-energy winemaker at the Feudo Arancio estates in Sicily, is trying to propel Sicilian vineyards into the 21st century by using distinctive, regional grapes to make wines that taste as if they should sell for $25 to $50 but instead cost under $10.

  Posted on 2007-04-17 at 01:25

• The march of the wine bar

  A couple weeks ago I wrote about the blurring lines between wine bars and restaurants; since then I've checked out several more. Soon after the post appeared, I heard from Pamela Busch, the owner of Cav Wine Bar & Kitchen, that I hadn't reviewed the restaurant and that perhaps I should give it a shot.

  Posted on 2007-04-17 at 01:23

• St Emilion classification suspended indefinitely

  The court rejected two requests to lift the suspension - calling one, from the Syndicat Viticole de Saint Emilion (the local winegrowers union) “inadmissable” - and the other, made by a group of 26 St Emilion chateaux, “ill-founded”.

  Posted on 2007-04-17 at 01:21

• Brunton Vineyards Hires New CFO, Don Pacholec

  With over 25 years of experience as a CFO and finance executive, Don Pacholec brings a wealth of knowledge and budgeting/forecasting, strategic planning, cost accounting, contract, intellectual property and M&A experience and skills. He also has a deep understanding and experience in the revenue recognition process, SEC filings and tax advantaged strategy / implementation. Mr. Pacholec was responsible for financial management at Hewlett Packard’s worldwide Enterprise Systems Group, managing internal controls, SOX compliance, accounting process, inventory ($1.5B), and material cost reduction / procurement risk.

  Posted on 2007-04-17 at 01:20

• Wine Train battle back to high court

  The city of St. Helena’s legal battle against the Napa Valley Wine Train is marching yet again to the California Supreme Court.

  Posted on 2007-04-17 at 01:19

• New leader hopes to bolster local wine industry

  The incoming director of the Idaho Grape Growers and Wine Producers Commission hopes to make Idaho a wine destination for tourists, much like the wine regions of California, Washington and Oregon.

  Posted on 2007-04-17 at 01:14

• April in Carneros set for next weekend

  Twenty-one wineries in the Carneros wine-growing region straddling southern Sonoma and Napa counties are expected to participate.

  Posted on 2007-04-16 at 01:30

• New Extension associate to serve growing Gulf Coast wine industry

  During the last decade, the Texas wine industry quietly blossomed into the nation's fifth- largest producer of wine grapes, according to Fritz Westover, Gulf Coast regional viticulture extension associate for Texas Cooperative Extension.

  Posted on 2007-04-16 at 01:28

• South-Africa:Red wine glut taking toll on farmers

  For sale signs are popping up among the historic vineyards of the Western Cape because of a worldwide glut of red wine and strong interest from foreign buyers

  Posted on 2007-04-16 at 01:27

• Where there's smoke, there's probably a burn-off

  The owner of a vineyard in the Yarra Valley has blasted the authorities for carrying out the burn-offs while grapes remained on vines.

  Posted on 2007-04-11 at 01:24

• MO:Freeze may steal half of harvest

  Early last week, spring was in full bloom, and fruit trees werebudding. Growers planned for bountiful harvests.
  
  
  However, things changed quickly as a blast of unseasonably cold weather Tuesday night began a series of colder-than-normal nights left growers wondering what remained of their crops by week’s end.

  Posted on 2007-04-11 at 01:22

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