Tag: Wine Intelligence
Afternoon Brief, July 27th
Napa’s Vineyard Workers Are Retiring — And the Next Generation Doesn’t Want Their Jobs: A generational shift is occurring within California’s agricultural workforce where the offspring of farmworkers are pursuing alternative, gainful and fulfilling careers — a result of having more opportunities and education than their parents and grandparents did when they arrived in America...
Afternoon Brief, July 20th
Mexican Beauty Queen, Romanian-Dutch Man Arrested After Chase Across Europe Over $1.7 Million Wine Theft: A former Mexican beauty queen and a Romanian-Dutch accomplice have been arrested in Croatia over the theft of $1.7 million worth of prestige bottles of wine in Spain after a nine-month chase across Europe, police said on Wednesday...
Afternoon Brief, July 13th
Iconic Italian Wineries Partner on Wine in Space Project: Three iconic Italian wine producers, Gaja, Biondi-Santi and Feudi di San Gregorio, have announced they will partner with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Italian Sommelier Foundation (FIS) on a ‘wine in space’ project...
Afternoon Brief, July 12th
July Brings a Mixed Bag of New State Alcohol Laws: California bartenders will need to be certified, while Virginians can now bring up to three gallons of booze across state lines...
Afternoon Brief, June 29th
Möet Hennessy Buys Napa's Joseph Phelps Vineyards: The multinational luxury corporation has purchased a Napa icon, home of Insignia...
Afternoon Brief, June 24th
Climate Change Is Altering the Chemistry of Wine: Warming, wildfires and unpredictable weather threaten to disrupt the delicate processes that underlie treasured wines. Researchers and producers are innovating to keep ahead...
Afternoon Brief, June 22nd
How to Make an Ally of Cognitive Dissonance in Recessionary Times: Consumers around the world can easily find reasons not to be cheerful at the moment. The news is packed with doom-laden items – ongoing war in Ukraine, climate change, accelerating cost of living and inflation, among other things...
Afternoon Brief, June 17th
US Supreme Court Blocks Efforts to Dismiss Claims Against Glyphosate: Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant, suffered a setback in the US when the Supreme Court allowed cases to proceed against its subsidiary Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller whose allegedly carcinogenic ingredient, glyphosate, is widely used by the wine industry...
Afternoon Brief, June 15th
Can Sustainable Wine Survive a Cost of Living Crisis?: In many ways, it feels like the concept of sustainability in the era of climate change was made for the wine industry. It is also true to say that the wine industry has been talking about, and trying to mitigate, climate change for far longer than many other product categories...
Afternoon Brief, May 25th
What the Wine Industry Gets Wrong About Marketing to Younger Generations: Wine has been looking for ways to reach newly of-age consumers since the 1990s. What will it take to get it right in today's market?...
Afternoon Brief, May 18th
Vine Removal Technique Foils Devastating Grape Disease: Removing not only a diseased grapevine but the two vines on either side of it can reduce the incidence of leafroll disease, a long-standing bane of vineyards around the world, Cornell researchers have found...
Wine Brand Equity Stabilising After Covid, But Yet to Fully Rebound
2022 Wine Intelligence Global Wine Brand Power Index also Reveals that Yellow Tail and Casillero del Diablo Remain the Most Powerful Wine Brands Globally
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Afternoon Brief, May 4th
Crews Battle Fire at a Wine-Making Facility in Florence County: A fire at a wine-making facility in the Cartersville community on Lamar Highway in Florence County is now contained and under control, according to officials with the Sardis-Timmonsville Fire Department...
Afternoon Brief, April 27th
Wine Trade Faces Supply Chain, War Fallout After Record Year - OIV: Supply chain disruptions and the war in Ukraine could curb global wine trade after it rebounded last year to a record level as countries eased coronavirus-related restrictions, international wine body OIV said on Wednesday...
Afternoon Brief, April 20th
The World’s Leading Bulk Wine Fair Launches Its First-Ever US Show: The inaugural WBWE USA show will be held on June 8th and 9th at Sonoma County Event Center at the Fairgrounds...
