News Archive: April 2006

• Constellation Brands' Banrock Station Wines Announces C$1.25 million Milestone Sponsorship to Return Native Atlantic Salmon to Lake Ontario

  One of the world's leading environmentally conscious wine brands, Banrock Station Wines, announced today that it is donating C$1.25 million through the Banrock Station Wetlands Foundation Canada to Bring Back the Salmon, a five-year project to restore reproducing populations of native Atlantic Salmon to Lake Ontario.

  Posted on 2006-04-28 at 12:51  ·  Category: Miscellaneous

• Folio Fine Wine Partners to Market Lenz Moser Wines: LAURENZ V and LAURENZ UND SOPHIE

  Michael Mondavi, Founder of Folio Fine Wine Partners, announced today an exclusive marketing agreement with Lenz Moser, adding two Austrian Gruner Veltliner wines to the portfolio of Folio Fine Wine Partners.

  Posted on 2006-04-28 at 12:48  ·  Category: Industry

• South Africa: Pendock Unfiltered - Cork Catastrophe

  SA wine is in the midst of a cork catastrophe, borne out by export numbers to the UK.

  Posted on 2006-04-28 at 12:36  ·  Category: Industry

• MA :Wine law makes streets safer

  Ever since Gov. Mitt Romney signed Chapter 33 of the Acts of 2006 on Feb. 27, restaurants have been allowed to offer wine doggie bags for patrons to take home their unfinished bottle.

  Posted on 2006-04-28 at 12:29  ·  Category: Industry

• Liquor Chief Charged With Drunken Driving

  The director of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission abruptly resigned Thursday after she was charged with drunken driving.

  Posted on 2006-04-28 at 12:28  ·  Category: Miscellaneous

• Australia wine grape harvest down on last year

  Australia's 2006 wine grape harvest was expected to slip 1 per cent on the previous year's record tonnage, the Australian Wine and Brandy Corp.

  Posted on 2006-04-28 at 12:23  ·  Category: Industry

• How do I love thee? Let me count the sips

  Although it's often just a first-course flirtation, when I have a glass with a seafood dish before returning to the everyday pleasure of a California red, it's not just a schoolboy crush. Spanish and Italian white wines have hooked my heart

  Posted on 2006-04-27 at 02:10  ·  Category: Miscellaneous

• Costco wins key ruling

  In a legal decision expected to have national implications for the three-tier system for distribution of alcoholic beverages, U.S. District Court judge Marsha Pechman issued a ruling last week that strikes down many liquor control board policies in Washington state that had been challenged by Costco.

  Posted on 2006-04-27 at 02:06  ·  Category: Industry

• Local wine industry forms alliance

  Group names itself after the special micro-climate called the 'Petaluma Gap,' where cool evening flog blows in off the ocean, locking in the flavor of pinot noir, Chardonnay and other grapes

  Posted on 2006-04-27 at 02:05  ·  Category: Industry

• Paso Robles Wine Services to Break Ground on Cased Good Warehouse and Consolidated Shipping Hub

  The owners of Paso Robles Wine Services announced today that they are breaking ground on a consolidated cased good and wine shipping center, as phase two of their new facility at the corner of Buena Vista Drive and Airport Road in Paso Robles. Scheduled to open this Fall, the operation will be one of the largest warehouses in California.

  Posted on 2006-04-27 at 02:03  ·  Category: Industry

• Huge jump in grape production in '05Half-billion dollar total up nearly 55 percent from last year

  Wine grapes accounted for nearly $540.9 million, up a whopping 54.7 percent from the previous year. The most expensive varietal was once again petit verdot, a grape used primarily for blending. It came in at $4,975 a ton.

  Posted on 2006-04-27 at 02:02  ·  Category: Industry

• Wines for hot dogs and other foods of spring

  While spring brings many different ingredients to the plate, it always brings to my glass a crisp white wine with zippy acidity to make my mouth water and turn my thoughts to food.

  Posted on 2006-04-27 at 01:56  ·  Category: Culinary

• Study finds boycott of French wine hurt sales

  The call to boycott French wine in retaliation for France's opposition to the war in Iraq put a cork in demand that may have cost millions in sales, researchers say.

  Posted on 2006-04-27 at 01:53  ·  Category: Industry

• Tax break is threat to wine

  SPECULATIVE investment in grape-growing driven by generous tax deductions has created a massive glut of fruit and is threatening the viability of the wine industry, a peak lobby group warned yesterday.

  Posted on 2006-04-27 at 01:52  ·  Category: Industry

• Texas produced wines mostly consumed within state

  When the Aulers wanted to expand production at Fall Creek Vineyard a few years ago, there was a severe limitation to their prospects: Disease had wiped out their grapes and there was no surplus of high-quality grapes elsewhere in the Hill Country or the rest of Texas.

  Posted on 2006-04-27 at 01:46  ·  Category: Industry

• Celebrate unusual varieties

  When Susan Sokol Blosser's Oregon vineyard gave her Muller-Thurgau, Muscat Canelli, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Riesling, Sylvaner and Chardonnay, she made Evolution No. 9, a snappy white wine comprised of those eight grape types plus a splash of Semillon.

  Posted on 2006-04-27 at 01:44  ·  Category: Miscellaneous

• Bordeaux prices: merchants dismayed

  The first huge price rise of Bordeaux 2005 has sent the UK wine trade into a predictable flurry.

  Posted on 2006-04-27 at 12:59  ·  Category: Industry

• 2005 Bordeaux Arrives to an Ovation, Trailing Opportunities

  IF you need a surefire diplomatic gambit to find a point of agreement among even the most contentious of foes, how about sounding them out on the 2005 vintage in Bordeaux? After weeks of tastings for the industry and the wine press in Bordeaux, where the 2005's are currently aging in barrels, the message is clear: 2005 is a knockout.

  Posted on 2006-04-26 at 01:11  ·  Category: Industry

• A rarity: a Top 10 list that's really first-rate

  Wine magazines do the same thing, with lists of top budget wines, best of show, most expensive, etc. I generally give them short shrift. But when Wine Business Monthly — a trade magazine that doesn't rate wines or do puff stories on multimillion dollar wine — put out its list of the 10 Hottest Small Brands of 2005, my curiosity was piqued.

  Posted on 2006-04-26 at 01:07  ·  Category: Industry

• The Hottest Small Brands of 2005

  In putting together this list of “hot small brands” we did not include brands selected in previous years. We avoided larger, more established growth brands, and steered clear of new labels from mega-wineries with the capacity and clout to jam vast quantities of wine into the distribution system upon product launch.

  Posted on 2006-04-26 at 01:05  ·  Category: Industry

• Local Winery Manufacturing Perfection In A Bottle

  Robert Parker is one of the most influential wine critics in the world. His publication, "Wine Advocate" uniformly ranks wines from around the world. In the latest publication, Parker awarded Quilceda's Cabernet Sauvignon a perfect score of 100 points.

  Posted on 2006-04-26 at 12:43  ·  Category: Industry

• Investment schemes urged to stop new vineyard developments

  Wine grape growers are urging investment schemes to put the brakes on new vineyard developments.

  Posted on 2006-04-26 at 12:42  ·  Category: Industry

• Wine Patrol 'agents' target restaurants' high wine prices

  Seems as if everyone but the most affluent complains of exorbitant wine prices in restaurants, and now somebody is doing something about them

  Posted on 2006-04-26 at 12:33  ·  Category: Industry

• Wine Cellars Cooked by Katrina Struggle: John Mariani

  On the night after Katrina hit, Jimmy Brennan, partner in Brennan's Restaurant in New Orleans's French Quarter, and his chef, Lazone Randolph, sat up with pistols loaded to ward off any looters intent on robbing their 30,000-bottle wine cellar of its treasures.

  Posted on 2006-04-26 at 12:32  ·  Category: Industry

• New beverage magazine launches in Portland

  Imbibe will be available nationally at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Tower Records, upscale grocers, independent bookstores and newsstands, and select wine, spirits, beer and coffee shops.

  Posted on 2006-04-26 at 12:25  ·  Category: Miscellaneous

• Vote to test backing for Winegrape Commission

  If approved, the commission would assess growers, raising more than $1 million each year for wine promotion, education and research. A petition has been filed with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, which would oversee the election.

  Posted on 2006-04-24 at 12:51  ·  Category: Industry

• Automated System Predicts Grape Yields

  Estimating grape yields is a time-consuming, laborious affair. But that could change, thanks to a high-tech helping hand from Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Prosser, Wash.

  Posted on 2006-04-24 at 12:50  ·  Category: Industry

• Maryland : Glasses raised to two wine bills

  Maryland wineries and restaurants say the two pieces of legislation Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is expected to sign are good for their businesses and their customers.

  Posted on 2006-04-24 at 12:48  ·  Category: Industry

• McGuigan rejects analyst's prices

  The company has written to growers advising it will not accept prices determined by analyst Charles Drew of up to $325 a tonne.

  Posted on 2006-04-24 at 12:47  ·  Category: Industry

• Parker on 2005: 'compelling greatness'

  Robert Parker has made a valiant effort to calm the enthusiasm around the 2005 Bordeaux vintage – but ends up unable to control his own 'jubilation'.

  Posted on 2006-04-24 at 12:45  ·  Category: Industry

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