Tag: St. Helena
Afternoon Brief, December 5
Wine M&A pace may slow in 2015:
After a relatively active string of sales of California vineyard, winery and brands in the past few years, the thirst for new deals likely will subside in the new year, thanks to back-to-back bumper crops and increasingly attractive alternatives in the Pacific Northwest...
Afternoon Brief, September 18
Constellation Pilots Innovative BioFiltro Wastewater Treatment System:
Constellation plans to put millions of earthworms to work in 2015. Don't worry, they wont be making the wine, they'll be cleaning the wastewater from winery operations...
Afternoon Brief, August 21
Treasury Wine's Michael Clarke flags U.S. acquisitions despite $100m loss:
Treasury Wine Estates boss Michael Clarke won't allow calamitous acquisitions made by former management or circling private equity suitors deter him from beating a path to the U.S., and has signalled an appetite for acquiring premium Californian wine brands to augment his ambitious growth strategy...
Afternoon Brief, June 23
Europeans testing sulphite-free preservation of wine:
Europeans, well-known for their love of wine, are testing a novel preservation method aimed at significantly reducing or even eliminating sulphites, which can cause allergic reactions in some people...
Afternoon Brief, June 19
Economics driving California wineries to Pacific NorthWest:
Speculation creeps into the conversation every time a large California winery snaps up a smaller operation and sets up shop in Oregon or Washington: The big outfits figure climate change eventually will make California too hot and dry to grow premium wine grapes, so they are moving to better conditions in the Pacific Northwest...
Afternoon Brief, May 30
"Only Natural Wines Can Be Truly Great" Claims New Book:
Natural wine is such a charged term that you fear fisticuffs might break out if you dare mention the category that must not be named...
Afternoon Brief, May 29
Viniflora NoVa Removes the Need for Sulfites in Winemaking:
Chr. Hansen claims its new wine culture is a fantastic launch that will greatly increase the speed and predictability of malolactic fermentation and remove the need for producers to use sulfites as preservatives...
Afternoon Brief, May 27
St. Helena wine consultant sued for $1.6 million:
A vintner is suing a wine consultant for $1.6 million, alleging he was negligent when he failed to produce a new top-quality cult wine, according to court records filed in Napa County Superior Court...
Afternoon Brief, May 23
Wine shipments could be hit by surcharges over strikes at U.S. ports:
Shipping firms are already announcing surcharges which could hit wine shipments hard ahead of feared industrial action at western US ports...
Afternoon Brief, May 16
French court clears anti-GM vine protesters:
More than 50 protestors who destroyed a field of genetically modified grapevines being trialled in Eastern France have had their convictions quashed, to the annoyance of the country's national research body...
Afternoon Brief, May 6
Treasury Wine Estates commits to multimillion pound spend in UK off-trade after soaring sales:
Treasury Wine Estates is committing itself to a multimillion pound spend across the UK off-trade this summer as it announces a 17% increase in its own off-trade sales to 193 million in 2013-2014...
Afternoon Brief, April 30
Wine shipments through US ports in jeopardy as strike action 'unavoidable':
Industrial action at western US ports now looks unavoidable say opposing sides in the dispute putting wine shipments in jeopardy...
Afternoon Brief, Feb 13
Trending Story:
Treasury Wine could deliver $2bn through US division sale: Merrill Lynch
Treasury Wine Estates is under renewed pressure to sell its troubled US division...
Afternoon Brief, Jan. 16
Trending Story:
Special yeast reduce alcohol, improve wine
A team of Australian researchers has taken a giant step towards controlling a growing problem in...
