Insights and Stories on Grapes

Aug. 28, 2014 at 3:13 pm CDT

Grape growers and wine producers in Nova Scotia have got a new advisory board to bring their ideas and issues to the provincial government. The province on Tuesday named nine members, including Agriculture Minister Keith Colwell as chairman, to a new Nova Scotia Wine Development Board. Nova Scotia’s wineries sold […]

By Staff

Aug. 26, 2014 at 5:51 pm CDT

Napa, California | Reuters — A strong earthquake that jolted residents of California’s Napa Valley wine country from their beds on Sunday caused insured property damage likely in the hundreds of millions of dollars, but the region’s total economic losses will be several times that, experts said on Monday. The […]

By Christina Farr, Robin Respaut

May. 20, 2014 at 3:08 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Forget government bonds, fine art and even stamps: red wine outperformed them all over the 20th century. At least that’s what research by a team of academics from the University of Cambridge, HEC Paris and Vanderbilt University of Nashville shows. The Warren Buffetts of the fine […]

By Guy Faulconbridge

May. 13, 2014 at 3:39 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — The United States became the world’s biggest market for wine last year, beating France into second place for the first time as consumption slides in the country long seen as its natural home and Americans develop a greater taste for it. U.S. consumers bought 29.1 million […]

By Sybille De La Hamaide

Feb. 13, 2014 at 8:07 am CST

If it’s not made only with grapes naturally frozen on the vine, it can’t be called icewine. As obvious as it may seem, a new move to enshrine that notion in the federal Agricultural Products Act is expected to ease and boost exports of Canada’s most lucrative wines and weed […]

By Staff