Afternoon Brief: Court OKs $140 Million in Vintage Wine Estates Assets Sales

Nearly two dozen wineries, brands and other assets of the defunct Santa Rosa-anchored Vintage Wine Estates portfolio got the green light to change hands in a Delaware bankruptcy court Tuesday...

As Fermentis launched two new hybrid strains on the market, it can be useful to remind ourselves what hybridization is - both to demystify the term (so that everyone understands what it covers) and to clarify what winemakers can expect from it. And no less importantly, to explain why Fermentis chooses to invest time and resources to it and consolidate valuable partnerships. A reproduction method as old as the world “Hybridization” is simply the production of offspring from the union of two different parents (from the same specie - intraspecific hybrids or from different species - interspecific hybrids). It is a widespread phenomenon, more common amongst the plant kingdom than in animals. Yeast, together with mushrooms and molds, occupies a place between the plant and animal kingdoms reserved for “fungi.” Like all fungi, yeast has asexual and sexual reproductive cycles. Yeast is most commonly the result of the asexual cycle (asexual because reproduction is the