makes American AgCredit the seventh largest of the 90 cooperatives that comprise the Farm Credit System.

group's chief customer officer said he didn't expect the group's retail and distribution customers to build their stock levels up to the levels they held in 2008.

NRDC soliciting nominations from the U.S. grape and wine industry for Growing Green Awards.

A rare chance to taste the most exciting wines of the previous year

New faces and exciting new wines kicked off the first day of Wine Experience seminars, as eight of the Rhône's Rising Stars among vignerons introduced the audience to the valley's diverse appellations and styles.

One of the UK's leading wine critics has declared war on overweight packaging by vowing to boycott wines sold in heavyweight wine bottles from his Sunday newspaper column.

Scientists who met in Portland this week for the annual meeting of the Geological Sociey of America had a less-than-usual topic of conversation: Wine. They tried to clear up any mistaken notions about the quality of vineyard soil influencing the taste of wine.

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New Delhi, India - According to our latest research report, "Indian Wine Industry Forecast to 2012", wine consumption in India is set to grow at a CAGR of around 28% during 2009-2012 owing to low current per capita wine consumption in the country.

As winemakers, they compete for business, but by being close to each other in the Port of Walla Walla Industrial Park they also complement each other.

France today said the dispute with India over import duty on wine and spirits would be sorted out through discussions without approaching the WTO.

Although it wasn't perfect weather for the winery on Sunday, Les Bourgeois says business is up. The Department of Agriculture Director John Hagler says agritourism became more popular this past decade. He says people are trying to save money and are buying local wines more.

Two decades ago, Simi Winery in Healdsburg made a splendid chenin blanc. It was as tasty and as easy-to-like as a spring morning. And it was easy to make, easy to sell, and made a profit.

If you've got a secret fondness for wine in a box (or you just like a good bargain), you may be able to out yourself without embarrassment.

A debate over whether to use a new designation, Superiore DOCG, threatens to spoil the renaissance of a region that has finally recovered from a long spell as a source of underwhelming wine.

Italy's 2009 wine vintage will be generally very good, but output will be lower than expected because of unusually hot weather followed by torrential rain, the national association of growers said Saturday.

The U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco, Tax, and Trade Bureau (TTB) will no longer require Italian government certification for imports of Brunello di Montalcino to the U.S., Italy's agriculture ministry has announced.

Lin, who lost his sight to retinal cancer at age two, is winemaker at Waipara's Mountford Estate, and a vineyard consultant in Australia, Europe and the United States.

When it comes to wine production, Washington state still can't touch California, which produces 90 percent of all U.S. wine.

Wine is back on the table for Tennessee state lawmakers, as a panel considers whether supermarkets and convenience stores should be allowed to sell wine, reopening the ongoing fight over the state's liquor laws, according to a report by The Tennessean.

new 650,000-square-foot refrigerated facility - bigger than 10 football fields - is nearing completion in American Canyon.

A heat wave in California's San Joaquin Valley stepped up the harvest of raisin grapes, while the industry looked at the prospect of yet another good year for exports because of lower production in Turkey, a competitor for raisins going into Europe

According to the latest report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, wine grape growers cultivated 163,000 hectares of vines for the 2009 season.

The ongoing debate over how to rejuvenate California's aging water system, conducted for months behind closed doors in the Capitol, finally spilled into public view Monday.

Strict conservation, new dams and a peripheral canal are all on the table after six weeks of closed-door negotiations to solve the state's water crisis and restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta ecosystem

Discussions will range from how to produce high-quality wines from old vines or virus-affected vines to blending sessions for growers.

Former Constellation Exec Joins Wine Colleagues as a full partner.

Online wine sales were originally to have launched by October of 2008, but a bewildering thicket of alcohol regulations and the fragile nature of shipping wine apparently derailed the effort.