Champagne has had the worst growing season for several decades and the prospects for the 2012 harvest look increasingly bleak. Even with improved weather in the run-up to harvest, expected to start around 20 September, yields will be significantly down on recent years with frost, hail, protracted and uneven flowering and […]
Wine giant E&J Gallo is to buy the Courtside Cellars business to feed growing demand for wines from California’s Central Coast. The company said the purchase, for an undisclosed sum, would include Courtside’s 12-year-old winery at San Miguel, capable of crushing 60,000 tons of grapes, along with 34 acres of land […]
The Department of Tourism and Hospitality launched a program earlier this year with the Cape Wine Academy to train 200 Wine Advisors to make it possible for those without permanent employment to receive on the job training in various sectors of the wine industry. Â Damian Africa from Mitchell’s Plain […]
In his 2012 Georgian Wine Guide Malkhaz Kharbedia reports that “the first example of modern Western wine journalism in Georgia†did not appear until 2006, to which wine professionals around the world might have shouted out ecstatically, “Hallelujah!†Or as the current Managing Director of a leading New York City […]
Hamilton Russell Vineyards: Hemel- en -Aarde Valley, Hermanus, Western Cape. We have finally received our next 9 small 160 liter stoneware amphorae for the 2012 Chardonnay harvest. This follows research we initiated in 2005 into the benefits of fermenting and ageing a portion of our Chardonnay in clay vessels instead […]
Regularly drinking two large glasses of wine or two strong pints of beer a day triples the risk of developing mouth cancer, a government campaign will warn. Television adverts will aim to show that drinking just over the recommended daily limit for alcohol increases the risk of serious health problems. […]
Carmenere, the indigenous Chilean grape variety, can now claim to have gained promotion to the so-called “Premiership” of first class wine varieties, according to wine critic and broadcaster, Tim Atkin MW.  Speaking at wine producer Santa Rita Estates first South American Wine Workshop at London’s Altitude venue in Millbank Tower […]
Seattle, November 1, 2011: Â Sphere Foods today announced the opening of their Cape Town office in South Africa and the appointment of Catherine Dillon as their South African representative. SPHERE FOODS is a resourceful, solution orientated company providing customers with premium quality processed vegetables and fruits. With two decades in […]
Since its inception 32 years ago in 1979, over 100 000 students have enrolled for various Cape Wine Academy courses throughout South Africa. Approximately 50 000 of these students attended various tertiary institutions at which the Cape Wine Academy teaches the wine module. These institutions include cookery and hospitality schools as […]
Murfatlar Romania has opened a new wine production unit dedicated to premium varieties. The new winery, located inside the company’s existing production facility near Constanta, required a EUR 550,000 investment. As part of its strategy to grow its premium segment wines, Murfatlar has hired Razvan Macici (pictured) as consulting enologist. […]
