‘Confusing’ EU wine labelling rules unfit for consumer needs: UK winery

(BeverageDaily) - An award-winning UK winery pulled up by regulators for illegally calling a wine it made using Argentinian grapes ‘wine’ under EU law says that current labelling rules are hopelessly out of step with consumer needs. Chapel Down Winery imported Argentinian grapes to produce a one...

US: Big shift in grape market impacts North Coast wineries, growers

(PressDemocrat) - The wine grape market has shifted so quickly and dramatically that wine industry veterans are calling it a game change. A looming grape shortage and growing demand for California wines have driven grape prices higher, with some grape prices doubling in the span of a year. And wi...

Corkheads: Is that wine orange?

(MercuryNews) - What gets a wine geek's juices flowing? Aroma, certainly. Nothing's quite as satisfying as that first whiff of lychee in a glass of gewürztraminer, or the unmistakable l'eau de jerky in some syrahs. Color plays a close second for me. In addition to its bracing acidity, the thing ...

The $1.3m wine hoax: How one man sold cheap Napa plonk as the world's finest vintage... and fooled the industry elite

(DailyMail) - As a fraudster is indicted for a $1.3million hoax counterfeiting rare wines and selling the bottles, attention has fallen to the consumer-trusted wine experts who were so easily fooled. The world's most respected taste buds bought, sold and wrote about Rudy Kurniawan's wine collecti...