Latest Canadian wine Stories

NAPA VALLEY, Calif., April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Wine Sisterhood, a vibrant digital community promoting wine conversations and engaging consumers in the enjoyment of wines through social networking on a variety of web-based and mobile platforms, announces the launch of a new on-line store at shop.winesisterhood.com. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130402/SF87619) Wine Sisterhood, the brainchild of the fast-growing wine sales and marketing company, Canopy Management,...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With growing sales in the Asian wine markets, a delegation of more than 40 California vintners will embark on Wine Institute's international trade mission October 15-26 to six cities --Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; Taipei, Taiwan; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China. The vintner group represents a dozen California wine regions which will present more than 110 brands at a slate of consumer, media and trade events....

Researchers work to create hypoallergenic wines and sequence the genome of Chardonnay For centuries, people made wine by stomping grapes with their bare feet. But now, the art of winemaking is going high-tech at The University of British Columbia's Wine Research Centre. Have you ever gotten a headache or a rash from a single glass of wine? Has one glass of Merlot or Shiraz resulted in a painful hangover? If yes, you may be one of the 30 percent of people who are allergic to compounds...

NEW YORK, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Rabobank's global Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory department examines the global wine industry, assessing that traditionally attractive export markets are currently in scare supply, but that the Canadian market is increasingly interesting. Rabobank's global wine research team acknowledges that Canada is not the first country that comes to mind when one thinks of global wine markets. Currently, however, many...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. wine exports, 90% from California, reached a new record of $1.39 billion in winery revenues in 2011, an increase of 21.7% compared to 2010. Volume shipments were up 5.8% to 455.7 million liters or 50.6 million nine-liter cases. "The quality, diversity and value of California wines have propelled us to another record year for wine exports," said Robert P. (Bobby) Koch, Wine Institute President and CEO. "Our success in...

When you think about "wine country," Illinois may not be the first state that comes to mind. But it's actually big business on the prairie. There are 90 wineries licensed in Illinois and 1,500 acres of wine grapes. One acre of wine grapes can bring as much as $8,000 in sales, though more commonly it's $3,000 to $5,000. The largest wineries in Illinois produce 90,000 gallons per year, while many produce 3,000 to 10,000 per year."In many cases, growing wine grapes is...

LAKE FOREST, Calif., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- WineMatch.com releases combined sensory, chemistry and winery data web site to help consumers find matches to wines they already enjoy. This is a new concept in the evaluation of wines for the average consumer called Wine Profiling. This data-base driven, multi-point, wine-matching engine is the first of its kind. Using more real data and less subjectivity, WineMatch.com is a place for both wineries and consumers. Wine Submission Portal....

FRESNO, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting this June, baseball and grapes from California are in season at selected ballparks across North America including: Los Angeles Dodgers' Dodger Stadium, Baltimore Orioles' Camden Yards, San Francisco Giants' AT&T Park, St. Louis Cardinals' Busch Stadium and Toronto Blue Jays' Rogers Centre. To celebrate America's favorite pastime, each team will feature one of America's favorite fruits--fresh grapes from California--at its concessions,...

MADISON, Wis., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- This harvest season, viticulture students from VESTA, an alliance of Midwest colleges and winemaking businesses, are learning the process of turning grapes into wine via online courses. The program uses Mediasite by Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), to deliver instruction to students from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. VESTA, the Viticulture Enology Science and Technology Alliance, (www.vesta-usa.org) is funded by the National Science...

NORWALK, Conn., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Overall wine consumption in the U.S. rose 0.9 percent in 2008 to 294.7 million 9-liter cases, according to the Beverage Information Group's recently released 2009 Wine Handbook. Although the growth rate has slowed slightly, this marks the fifteenth consecutive year of case gains. Due to the current recessionary environment, consumers have become more frugal with their purchases, trading down toward value-priced wines in both the on-and off-premise....