Afternoon Brief, August 4th

Rising Temperatures Could Impact Quality of Grapes Used to Make Wine in Napa Valley, Researchers Say: Rising temperatures are shifting the growing season in Napa Valley’s wine country, which could impact grape growth and alter the types of wine that originate from the region, according to new research and wine experts...

Afternoon Brief, March 6th

Couple Jailed in Spain Over 1.6 Million Euros Wine Heist: A Spanish court on Monday jailed a couple for stealing 45 bottles of wine worth over 1.6 million euros from a hotel restaurant in what police called a "meticulously planned" theft...

Cork Recycling Partnership with APCOR and San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festivalâ„¢ Results in Recycling 820 Wine Corks

Nine Pounds of Corks Collected for Cork Sustainability and Education Campaign at Southern California’s Largest Wine and Food Festival San Diego, CA (January 6, 2022) – The Portuguese Cork Association (APCOR) and the San […]

Afternoon Brief, January 6th

Republic National Distributing Company Purchases White Mountain Beverage: Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC), the national distributor and broker of premium wine and spirits, purchased White Mountain Beverage, an independent Anheuser-Busch wholesaler, combining wine and spirits with beer to have one consolidated route to market...

Afternoon Brief, December 7th

The US Is ‘Top Dog’ in Drinks E-Commerce: As online drinks sales continue to soar, the United States is expected to snatch the crown for e-commerce by 2025, says new data from IWSR...

Afternoon Brief, October 1st

How Would a TTB Shutdown Affect You?: Not for the first time and probably not for the last, the federal government has narrowly averted a shutdown. Congress agreed on a short-term spending bill that will keep nonessential federal agencies funded though December 3, 2021...

Afternoon Brief, July 28th

Is Wine Losing Its Hold on Younger Adults?: The boost for wine seen across a number of key wine markets in 2020 has masked a much more profound demographic trend amongst wine drinkers...

When it comes to the cork industry’s challenge to win the closures battle, one enormous boost has come in the findings of a Lifecycle Assessment study by Ernst & Young, which shows as scientific fact how cork stoppers can reduce by a quarter the total carbon footprint of an average bottle of still table wine and by almost half that of a bottle of sparkling wine.  Mike Turner talks to world-leading cork supplier Amorim, which commissioned the study, and suggests that for an industry that has often been forced into owning a narrative, the carbon footprint argument sits neatly with an already impressive record of sustainability and biodiversity.  By Mike TurnerApril 29, 2020 “Amorim has always advocated that science can highlight the problem as well as the solutions, whether that realm is TCA taints or carbon emissions,” writes Turner. For the last 30 years, the cork industry has been under attack. Wine producers that didn’t have easy geograph