Vintage Wine Estates has continued a recent winery-buying spree, announcing its purchase of Napa Valley’s Swanson Vineyards, a pioneer in California Merlot. The deal, which closed Aug. 31, comes just a month after the Sonoma-based company purchased B.R. Cohn Winery.
Oregon’s wine industry is set to celebrate another banner year. While it will be difficult to top 2014, when the grape harvest increased nearly 40 percent over 2013 to a record 78,000 tons and sales increased 14 percent to $430 million, many growers are predicting an exceptional crop again this year.
The optimistic outlook comes despite the hot, dry summer that pushed up the 2015 harvest by as much as three weeks.
If you still can’t get past that wines in a screw-top bottle can be high quality, then wine in a can is going to make you flip your lid.
Several innovative wineries around the world have started “bottling” their juice in cans and marketing it toward a hipper crowd, some — like Oregon’s Underwood — more successfully than others. Underwood’s pinot noir, pinot gris and rosé aren’t dumbed-down novelty wines. They’re what they’d put in glass, and do, just more portable.
In what was once a considered a low-end hippy market, organic wine is fast becoming the preferred drop of choice for discerning wine palates worldwide. That growth is seeing the sector gaining momentum throughout NZ vineyards. Today seven per cent of New Zealand wine growers are certified organic or biodynamic.
Renowned New Zealand winemakers Hawkshead, Valli, Domaine Thompson, Wild Irishman and Soho have formed an exclusive wine partnership with Gibbston’s Kinross Cottages and General Store.
Perfectly positioned half way between Queenstown and Bannockburn, Kinross now operates as the exclusive Gibbston cellar door for this stellar group of winemakers. Brought together under one roof for the first time, their stories are entwined in the history of New Zealand wine making, and Kinross is the perfect hub to be drawn into their world.
Do you want to join the Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show (AAVWS) in Mildura this November? Launched in 2014, the AAVWS Fellowship invites applications from wine professionals and knowledgeable enthusiasts who are excited by the opportunity to explore and celebrate Australia’s alternative varieties and share that new found fervour with their networks and industry groups.
The tourism sector is continuing to pick up speed after the collapse of the mining boom, with an influx of visitors from China and India and more splurging on food and wine contributing to the strongest annual growth rate in spending since the Sydney Olympics were held in 2000.
The Australian Financial Review reports total spending rose by 10 per cent to a record $33.4 billion in the 12 months to June 30, outpacing a 7 per cent rise in visitors to 6.6 million, the latest international visitor survey from Tourism Research Australia showed.
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is betting that a country known for sipping black tea will develop a taste for Napa Valley red.
The e-commerce company will offer Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and other varieties to its 367 million Chinese customers through its online store Tmall, in a partnership announced Tuesday with Mondavi-owner Constellation Brands Inc.
Church Road Winery is celebrating a trophy win after their Church Road Grand Reserve Hawke’s Bay Syrah 2013 was awarded the Trophy for Best New World Red Wine at the Japan Wine Challenge 2015. The award-winning 2013 vintage, was chosen as the very best in the ‘New World Red Wine’ category – one of only 12 trophy winning wines awarded from the 1,400 wines entered across the world.
Church Road Senior Winemaker Chris Scott says he is very proud of the trophy win.
Exploring New Zealand’s wine regions on his month-long Bragato exchange scholarship, Alessandro Mangiameli has encountered a few surprises.
From Treviso in Italy’s Veneto region, the 18-year-old says winery machinery and winemaking processes are much the same in both countries but different vineyard practices reflect the local soils and climatic conditions.