Wine: it’s not white or red, it’s black and whiteThe wine industry has always been a very white industry with white winemakers and white customers. But will sponsorship of the World Cup by a wine label help bridge the racial divide?
Wine industry
A whine about wine
Wine’s natural taste has been manipulated, globalised and destroyed in the pursuit of “big” wine flavours. It’s a crying shame that wines all taste the same now, says Tom Philpott.
Pouring out the champagne profits
The French wine export market has dropped over 16% this year, and critics suggest that wine makers needs to start promoting the individual grape, just not its Bordeaux background. Will French purists give up on its much loved regions?
How America was conned into buying 16m bottles of cheap French plonk
French wine merchants passed off 13.5 million litres of cheap wine as “Pinot Noir” — and US drinkers lapped it up.
Nothing to toast for winemakers
The Australian wine industry will have to rip up 35,000 hectares of vines due to over supply this year. Oversupply has become a chronic problem with a fifth of all vines now redundant. Where to now for the wine industry?
Australia’s wine industry at tipping point
Australia has a surplus of 100 million cases of wine — and no-one wants to drink it, either at home or abroad. With wine exports falling by 8 million cases over the last two years, the industry is now in crisis.
Political snippets: The Barossa’s approach to a crushing problem
The beleaguered Australian wine industry gets some relief with the news that the crush during this year’s vintage was 5% less than in 2008, a cautionary tale from Paul Krugman, and why we’re still not “closing the gap”.
Drought and GFC cause a hangover for wine industry
Poor rainfall combined with a shrinking export market is leading many Australian wine growers to abandon their vineyards, with an industry body estimating 2000 growers will be forced off their farms over the next two years
Sacré bleu! Climate change threatens French wine
Fifty of France’s leading chefs, sommeliers and chateaux have written an open letter to president Nicolas Sarkozy with a blunt message: climate change will kill the French wine industry. To make matters worse, rising temperatures could mean the best wines soon come from England — or even Scotland!
First they trashed the Grange brand, now a great man’s name
Foster’s realised that selling wine was not the same as selling beer. So what to do now, but resurrect the old bloke who invented Grange, writes Richard Farmer.
Funding flows to the safe Liberal sherry belt
In these pre-election times, where government grants generally are made with an eye to votes not merit, it was a surprise to find a little group of Rutherglen wine makers being made the custodians of a $500,000 grant to assist the Australian fortified wine industry.
