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• UC Davis Viticulture: Our New LEED Platinum Winery is Nearing Completion. This just keeps getting more and more exciting, as every day brings us closer to the completion of the construction of our new LEED Platinum winery, here on the RMI campus. Now …full story

• WineBusiness.com : Off-Premise Wine Sales Increase 9.2 Percent in March Off-premise wine sales data increased 9.2 percent from the same period last year in the four weeks ending April 3 according to The Nielsen Company-tracked data. The jump in March is likely …full story

• W&S Daily Posts: Beer Takes Shelf Space in ‘09 LVMH: Champagne Hurt but Spirits “Withstood the St... Peter Cressy: “It’s been a Heck of a Year” Wine Glass Half Full Fortune on the Offense Volumes of Ste Michelle Drop -2% Industry Reacts to …full story

• Wine Institute: Linsey Simpson Gallagher to Join Wine Institute as Director of International Marketing
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• Wine Institute Appoints Allison Jordan Director of Environmental Affairs
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• Despite slumping sales at restaurants, the California wine industry appears to be growing through the economic downturn. Retail and direct-to-consumer wine sales are making up for slower business in the struggling restaurant sector, said Robert Smiley, a wine-business expert at the University of California, Davis, who released the results of his annual report on the industry at a conference in Napa on Tuesday. …full story

• AWRI information page: Current Topics Wine quality and consumer preference: Understanding consumer needs. (Lattey, K.A.; Bramley, B.R.; Francis, I.L.; Herderich, M.J.; Pretorius, S.) Aust. N.Z. Wine Ind. J. (January/February 2007) A study was conducted to assess which sensory properties of red wines most influence consumer preference. It also assessed whether Cabernet Sauvignon wines might be liked differently to Shiraz wines, and how winemakers' judgements of quality relate to consumers' preferences. Click here for copy of this article (430 kb PDF file) . Winemaking implications of drought. Dealing with fruit from water-stressed vines (Con Simos, Sally-Jean Bell, Peter Leske and Peter Godden) In a …full story

• Napa Valley Vinters Assoc.: home › trade & media › Press Releases 8/25/2008 - Napa Valley Vintners Partner with Stand Up To Cancer Napa Valley, CA-The Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) non-profit trade association is proud to announce its partnership with Stand Up To Cancer's (SU2C) "Just Stand Up," the new initiative to raise philanthropic dollars for accelerating ground-breaking cancer... more 8/15/2008 - Napa Valley Vintners Welcomes Wine Educators to Annual Academy Napa Valley CA-The Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) non-profit trade association announces that the Napa Valley Wine Educators Academy starts Monday, August 18 and runs though Thursday, August 21, 2008. While based at The …full story

• UC Davis Viticulture: Trellis Alliance In an attempt to keep our Trellis Alliance membership informed about current research efforts in winegrape growing and winemaking, we have selected to review a number of articles on those subjects that we feel are especially relevant and timely. Although there is a great deal of research data published regularly in journals and scientific publications, it is often difficult to locate those articles and then to take the time to read and assess them. And they are often written to be reviewed by other researchers and/or academics, so their practical, or applied, value may be difficult to discern. …full story

• Virginia is becoming a more popular stop for wine lovers, with wineries playing an increasingly important role in the Commonwealth’s tourism industry. Frank Britt is trying to make sure that trend continues. The Lynchburg man teamed up with a graphic design firm in Virginia Beach to launch a lifestyle magazine that promotes wine made in Virginia. …full story

• LIVERMORE — The withering economy has not soured business in Livermore's burgeoning wine country, where six wineries have opened in the past year. Business continues to pour in, as evidenced by a growing number of small but tenacious startup wineries that have taken root in the area. The region now boasts 44 wineries. …full story

• ShipCompliant's temperature tool allows a winery to set thresholds on temperatures at which they want their shipments out for delivery, to see resulting destinations to which they should and shouldn't ship, and ultimately to filter shipment files for zip codes with forecasted temperatures within the thresholds, prior to sending to fulfillment. This process that has previously been completely manual and extremely time consuming can now be completed in a few easy steps. …full story

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• 30/05/2008: Hunter Valley raises a glass to its Wine Industry Award winners
• The Hunter Valley Wine Industry honoured its own at the second Annual Awards ceremony yesterday, including the announcement of the latest Hunter Valley Living legend.
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• Durif was first introduced into Australia in 1908 by François de Castella and planted in Rutherglen, a region where the variety remains synonymous.
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