Published: 30 October, 2020
In Napa, John Williams, winemaker and the owner of Frogs Leap, is a winemaker in the minority. Around 6-7% of his land is devoted to crops other than vines. It’s a move that makes him stick out like a sore thumb surrounded by Rutherford’s rolling valleys where there’s barely a fruit tree in sight. In a region where a single hectare costs on average $1m, why devote a single plot to anything else?
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Published: 24 August, 2020
The Wine & Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has launched an interactive map of distilleries and wineries that are open to the public in the UK.
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Published: 20 August, 2020
California’s wine country has so far been spared the wrath of the latest wildfires, which broke out in the northern part of the state on Monday.
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Welsh Wine Week will launch with an online tasting led by wine experts Charlie Womersley and Oz Clarke OBE, who will be joined by iconic Welsh performer Max Boyce.
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Spanish producer Ramón Bilbao has begun the three-year process of converting its Rioja and Rueda vineyards to organic production methods.
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The Covid-19 outbreak is causing serious damage to the UK’s wine industry, according to a survey of its members commissioned by Wines of Great Britain.
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Andrew Catchpole shines the spotlight on Chile’s most famous region for quality reds
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Published: 28 January, 2020
Climate change researchers have pegged Essex and Norfolk as the next major areas to plant as warmer summers extend the area where grapes can be grown productively in the UK.
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Published: 12 November, 2019
Fire chiefs, residents and wineries in New South Wales are currently preparing for a “catastrophic” fire day today as 60 fires continue to tear through the region’s residential areas and wine country.
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Published: 07 October, 2019
WineGB has welcomed the move from a number of MPs for more support for the UK’s small vineyards.
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Published: 12 August, 2019
Soave is making a comeback thanks to a new Summer of Soave campaign.
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Consorzio Doc delle Venezie has introduced a three-year suspension of new vineyards in a bid to achieve an “even higher quality and balanced market growth”.
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Argentina used to have the most southern vineyards in the world until Central Otago surpassed them. However today, the cultivation of vine at latitude 45 in Chubut province adds to the Argentina’s viticultural map, representing a new challenge for winemakers working in the mountainous regions and also in the Patagonian plains. Here, Alejandro Iglesias breaks down the new southernmost border of Argentine wine.
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A tour of the NIAB EMR’s research vineyard at East Malling will be one of the highlights of Fruit Focus 2019, the leading annual technical event for the UK fruit industry.
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The Italian Ministry of Agriculture has officially recognised 33 cru vineyards in Soave, following an 18-year “zoning” project by the region’s consorzio.
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Published: 26 April, 2019
A new sustainability and climate change mitigation scheme for the UK wine industry could be complete by the end of the year.
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Published: 25 March, 2019
Viticulturalist Danny Lucchesi talks to Chris Wilson about special old vines, Zin and Gnarley Head
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Published: 18 February, 2019
Tasmania’s vineyard area has grown by 25% over the past two growing seasons, with plans for another 15% increase in the pipeline, as both local and mainland Australian producers invest in the island’s viticultural scene.
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Published: 30 January, 2019
For much of the winemaking world, it’s an inconvenient truth that climate change is changing how easily and successfully wine can be made.
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Published: 01 August, 2018
Indian wine could be the next big thing if a new collaboration between a number of industry heavyweights is anything to go by.
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