Tag: China

Technology Used to Fight Back Against Fakes: Counterfeit wines and spirits are big business from Glasgow to Guangdong, and the fakers are not just targeting premium brands such as top of the range Cognacs and rare vintages of first growth clarets commodity wines such as Jacob's Creek and Blossom Hill have been counterfeited...

Delicato Family Vineyards Decodes the Premium 3-Liter Box Wine Consumer with 2015 Wine Insights Report: Delicato Family Vineyards, producer of Bota Box, the nation's leading eco-friendly Premium 3-Liter Box wine, announces the release of a new report revealing key insights into the Premium 3-Liter Box wine consumer fueling one of the industry's hottest growing categories...

Smaller Producers Enjoy Significant Growth in U.S. Alcoholic Beverage Market: A just-released report analyzing the U.S. market for alcoholic beverages shows a notable lack of growth for the top producers, at least for wine and beer, while smaller companies enjoyed a fairly significant uptick in shipments...

Valley Fire Status Report: Impact to Lake County Wine Industry: Many in the Lake County wine industry have been impacted by this disaster, some both personally and professionally...

Valley Fire Incinerates Lake County’s Shed Horn Cellars: The Valley Fire, which reached 61,000 acres in Napa and Lake counties on Monday morning, has reportedly destroyed Shed Horn Cellars, a winery in Middletown in southern Lake County...

When Millennials Go Legal, Wine Is the Choice: With a growing number of millennials reaching the legal drinking age, many are adopting wine as their go-to drink...

Sonoma County Winegrape Growers Approve Commission Referendum: As it seeks to become the nation's first 100% sustainable winegrowing region, Sonoma County's winegrape growers voted ...

Wildfires Raise Fears Of Grape Smoke Taint: The current wildfires in Washington have left many growers wondering if smoke taint could impact the flavor of their winegrapes...

Alibaba Brings the Taste of Napa Valley Wine to China: 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...

Peter Michael Adds Its Support to Wine Spectator Learning Center at Sonoma State University: The Michael family's $300,000 donation to Sonoma States School of Business and Economics will be used to create The Peter Michael Winery Executive Classroom at the Wine Spectator Learning Center, which will house the university's future Wine Business Institute...

Researchers Develop a Method to Sniff Out Counterfeit Wine Without Opening the Bottle: How do you know if a wine is authentic without opening the bottle? A team of researchers at U.C. Irvine believes they have developed a valuable new tool in the battle against counterfeit wines...

E. & J. Gallo Announces Purchase of Talbott Vineyards: E. & J. Gallo Winery announced today that it has agreed to purchase Talbott Vineyards, one of Californias largest and most esteemed producers of 100% estate-grown wines...

Year After Quake, Napa's Wine Industry Healthy: In the immediate aftermath of last August's earthquake in Napa, photographs quickly circulated of shattered wine racks, toppled barrels and what looked like an endless river of spilled red wine...

How Much Generation Y Will Pay for a Bottle of Wine: Australian Vintage wants to sell more wine to 18-to-34 year olds, and in doing so has uncovered some fascinating data about what 'generation Y' wants from its alcohol, and the amount they're prepared to pay for it...

Neither Chinese Nor Americans Are Taking Over French Vineyards: A French study finds that just 2 percent of the nations vines are owned by foreign investors...