SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hundreds of wildfires sparked by lightning flared Sunday across the heart of wine country and remote forests in Northern California, the latest batch of destructive blazes in the bone-dry state.
One had spread across nearly 6 square miles by early Sunday after starting the previous afternoon in Napa County and quickly moving into [...]

Virginia’s wine grape production up by 35 percent between 2001 and 2007
 
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s wine industry is booming.The National Agricultural Statistics Service says wine grape production jumped by 35 percent between 2001 and 2007, from 4,200 tons to 5,600.
Tony Banks with the Virginia Farm Bureau says acreage increased by 41 percent during the [...]

 
 
 
MOSCOW, June 20 (Itar-Tass) — Russia’s trade and sanitary control service has allowed two more Moldovan wine producing plants to present products for examination in Russia, a Russian service source told Itar-Tass.
Thus, 33 Moldovan plants are allowed to present products for sanitary and epidemiological examination in Russia, the source said.
At present, there are 692 positive [...]

Bumper season boosts wine production
New Zealand’s wine industry is looking forward to increased sales, after a bumper season produced a surge in grape production this year.    New Zealand Winegrowers chief Philip Gregan said nature had delivered a bounty in 2008, with 285,000 tonnes of grapes harvested, up 39% on last year.    Gregan said [...]

WINE and beer company Lion Nathan Ltd has bought US wine importer Cumulus Wine Inc (CWI) for an undisclosed sum, setting up a channel to sell premium Australian and New Zealand wines into the United States.
Lion Nathan will establish a new wine import company called Lion Nathan USA Inc following the purchase of Cumulus Wine [...]

Mitch Tarr, who is a contributing editor for the WineMarketer.com Newsletter and CEO of ZinMarketing, Inc. has released a comprehensive report on the email marketing practices in the wine industry. Mitch has spent quite some time working on this report - signing up for over 1200 winery newsletters and email lists! He tracked the behavior [...]

Online advertising provider Microsoft AdCenter is removing all wine merchants from its client list in France, saying French legislation does not permit wine advertising online.
The decision by the software giant follows the ruling by a Paris appeals court earlier this year against beer producer Heineken. The court said Heineken’s webpage contravened France’s draconian 1991 Evin [...]

Chester, PA - May 15, 2008 — Kasey Carpenter is known as “The Wine Mogul,” and he deals in the business of wine. There’s no shortage of wine fans in the U.S. (in fact, that number is growing every day), but few people really dig into the dollars and cents of how vino is produced. [...]

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed legislation Tuesday to allow Sunday beer sales at Gwinnett County’s new baseball stadium and to let Georgians buy wine over the Internet.
Perdue, who has helped kill legislation allowing Sunday package store sales of alcohol, also signed a measure letting limo companies sell alcohol.
Perdue signed the liquor bills, along with dozens [...]

Back by popular demand, a “Texas vs. The World” tasting was on the agenda at the Perini Ranch’s recent Buffalo Gap Wine & Food Summit.
This extensive wine tasting was expertly conducted by Wes Marshall, award-winning author of The Wine Roads of Texas. It was a blind tasting, meaning that tasters did not know the identity [...]

What’s inside the wine bottle? For some consumers and consumer advocate groups, the answer is more than just fermented grape juice. They want to know exactly what that wine is made of, what its nutritional profile is and what sort of additives may have been used in making it.The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade [...]

Start drinking North Carolina wines in the coming months and someday you’ll be able to say you remember when.You remember when a tasting tour meant being able to chat with winemakers face-to-face.
You remember when the grapes that survived 2007’s wild weather yielded some of the best wines you’ve ever sipped.
You remember when North Carolina’s wine [...]

LOS ANGELES — It turns out Lil Jon drinks more than crunk juice — the larger-than-life producer and rapper has started his own wine label, offering selections including chardonnay and merlot.
“It kind of came out of nowhere,” Lil Jon told The Associated Press of his new venture, Little Jonathan Winery. “We were just going to [...]

Winners of the second annual American Wine Blog Awards were announced Monday, including San Francisco’s Vinography, which won the awards for best overall wine blog and best wine blog writing.
Other winners included Good Wine Under $20 (best wine review blog and best single subject blog), Tablas Creek Wine Blog (best winery blog), Grape Radio (best [...]