Wine Industry News
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FDF trade snapshot shows continued growth for UK exports
Strong export growth continues this quarter, with exports 23.2% higher than in Q3 2021, as exports to both EU and non-EU markets increased substantially. Sales to the EU are up nearly 18% and approaching pre-pandemic levels. While rising prices have increased the value of UK exports, we also see that volumes continue to grow. This can be attributed to soaring demand for UK food and drink in ...
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Purfresh Wine and Tastry Collaborate to Improve Wine and Mitigate Smoke Taint Damage to Grapes
Purfresh Wine, an Ag-Tech company, applying ozone (O3) technology to enhance wine quality and save grapes exposed to smoke from wildfires, and Tastry, a leading sensory sciences company, are collaborating to mitigate smoke taint damage to grapes. This partnership will add value to winemakers for a more efficient, sustainable, and secure industry future. Purfresh Wine uses O3 technology to treat ...
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Trucent at the Eastern Winery Exposition
The Trucent Food & Beverage team will be exhibiting at the Eastern Winery Exposition March 22-24 in Syracuse, New York. We’ll be in booth 917 at the Oncenter Convention Center. Our team of beverage experts will be on-hand to talk about the latest advancements in separation, filtration and dissolved gas management technology for the Wine industry. Gentle and efficient solids separation ...
By Trucent
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Taiwan Int`l Tea, Coffee, Wine & Food Industry Show, Online Expo will be launched from 19-22 November 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to the world. In order to kick-start the post-pandemic economy and play a vital role in boosting trade and innovations during the economic recovery process, Taiwan Int'l Tea, Coffee, Wine & Food Industry Show, Online Expo will be launched from 19 to 22 November 2021. Taiwan Int'l Tea, Coffee, Wine & Food Industry Show, Online ...
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Cannabis Drinks Market Scales Up
What is CBD? CBD (cannabidiol) is a chemical extracted from hemp and marijuana plants (Cannabis sativa L.). While CBD is an active ingredient in cannabis, it does not cause the ‘high’ or psychoactive effects associated with the chemical THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) which is also found in the plants. For product manufacturers and developers, the challenge is to provide the positive ...
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Vitas Portugal continues its development with FALUA
Our subsidiary Vitas Portugal continues its rapid and ambitious development in the wine industry with its company Falua. Falua has acquired the vineyard “Quinta do Hospital.” With this recent acquisition in Monção, Falua builds upon its presence in the Tejo production region, now extending its operations to the Vinho Verde region. Quinta do Hospital is an exceptional ...
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U.S. Wine Market Growth Leads Demand for North American Glass
The market for organic, sustainable and biodynamic wines will continue to grow, according to the recent IWSR forecast. This is especially true in the U.S., where the number of all wine bottles sold reached more than $4.3 billion last year1 and is predicted to increase 14 percent by 2022. With this market growth, vintners nationwide are looking to give their bottles the same provenance and ...
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Bragato 2017 is over, but the buzz continues...
The Romeo Bragato Conference 2017 may be over, but for us, the buzz continues. With such an impressive line-up of speakers at this years wine growers' conference, we expected a lot and were not disappointed. I personally found the speech by Caine Thompson quite inspirational, as we described his journey from young Viticulturist of the year in 2009 to General Manager of global wine producer, ...
By Vinea
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Is your wine genuine? - JRC releases ERM-AE003, an essential standard for the authenticity testing of wines
Counterfeiting of wine is a world-wide issue, affecting consumers as well as damaging wine producers and public authorities through loss of tax and duty revenues. Specific analytical measurements are needed to verify the authenticity of wines. The JRC has released a standard that is essential for executing these measurements according to official methods adopted by the International Organisation ...
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VISCA “Vineyards´ Integrated Smart Climate Application”
Climate change is threatening different varieties of agriculture species; the wine-grapes are especially sensitive to subtle differences in micro-climate impacts causing changes in the crops (i.e. decrease of the grape quality and quantity, changes in alcohol, acid, sugar, etc.) which directly affects the European wine industry. VISCA (“Vineyards´ Integrated Smart Climate ...
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Ontario Winemakers Embrace Importance of Sustainable Water Practices
An overwhelming majority of wineries in Ontario recognize the value of water and how sustainable water management practices can improve winery operational performance, reduce costs and support growth, a recent survey of Ontario wineries found. The 2016 survey, conducted by the BLOOM Centre for Sustainability, showed that 94 per cent of Ontario wineries believe improved water management practices ...
By BLOOM
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How to Keep Specialty Crops Safe from Herbicide Drift
Ohio’s corn and soybean growers could soon be spraying a lot more of two powerful herbicides on their fields. That’s why agricultural experts from The Ohio State University are offering tips on how to keep those herbicides from getting onto other crops, especially valuable specialty crops such as grapes. Doug Doohan and Roger Downer, both of Ohio State’s College of Food, ...
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Droughts may shrink wine cork industry
Climate change is threatening cork production in the forests of Spain and Portugal, making it more difficult to produce traditional wine bottle stoppers and putting an ancient and valuable industry at risk. A recent study by Portuguese researchers shows that cork − the thick bark of an oak tree species found mostly in the Iberian Peninsula − grows at a much slower rate during ...
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Rising heat brings earlier vintage
Global warming has begun to change the conditions for a fine wine harvest. The grapes are blooming earlier in Burgundy. The vintners of Vaud in Switzerland have a new harvest timetable. And the conditions for fine claret have altered in Bordeaux. Two US scientists have analysed 400 years of harvest data from France and Switzerland to confirm that, while climate change has not yet created ...
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More California winemakers using less water to grow grapes
The grape vines that grower Frank Leeds tends in Napa Valley stand among the unheralded heroes of California's drought, producing decade after decade of respected Cabernets and other wines without a drop of added water. In a state where farms and dairies take the biggest gulp of the water supply, Leeds and the owners of his Frog's Leap Winery are among a minority - but a growing minority - of ...
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Agilent to host wine industry webinar
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it will host a webinar Oct. 8 featuring Dr. Helene Hopfer, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California at Davis, Department of Viticulture and Enology. Dr. Hopfer will present data on trace-metals analyses in the wine-making process. Attendees will learn how to use advanced trace-metals profiling technologies to assess the impact of ...
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Fears over pesticide exposure in the month of conception
New research reveals that babies conceived in the spring and summer are more likely than others to be born with birth defects. One possible cause is the levels of pesticides in surface water happen to peak at the same time. The study, published in the US medical journal Acta Pædiatrica links the increasing number of birth defects in children of women whose last menstrual period occurred in April ...
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