Brane-Cantenac uses Carménère in its Grand Vin

FRANCE (Le Grau du Roi) - Grapes on the vine are yearning for sunrays and there's plenty of that in times of climate change - however, the big worry everyone has in France and elsewhere currently is climate change. If...

SLOVENIA (Maslenica) - Some time ago, a Slovenian vintner revealed his unique technique for maturing his wines - over 5 months he stored 600 bottles of his wine in lose amphoras on the seabed in the Adriatic sea. His wine...

GERMANY (Monsenheim) - There is no doubt that it exists: climate change, it makes itself felt quite a bit in some countries and continents, in others it doesn't. It's impact on wine is inevitable, however, not as...

GERMANY (Hamburg) – Strangers have looted the vineyard of the Hamburg Bürgerschaft. There is only a "pitiful remnant" left on the 100 vines grown on the slopes above the Elbe River near the famous St. gangways,...

USA (California) - She's from "Down Under", she is brownish, tiny and she can mean a huge danger to vine fields as well as fruit and vegetable fields, at least in places where she does not have any natural enemies or...

SOUTH AFRIKA (Cape Town) - Freak weather accompanied by strong winds have brought snow to the higher regions of the Western Cape province around Capetown in the last two weeks. Gusty winds helped to spread bush fires...

AUSTRALIA (Victoria) - The brush fire at the beginning of February burnt down about 5 percent of the vineyards in Yarra Valley in the Australian state Victoria. Altogether, cultivation areas of more than 140 hectares were...

SOUTH AUSTRALIA (Yarra Valley) - In December 2008, experts of the Australian wine industry still estimated the grape yield amount to be between 1.7 and 1.8 million tonnes in 2009 - on par with the level of the 2008...

ITALY (Tuscany) - Vintners in Tuscany are now also being hit. According to feedbacks of affected producers, the impacts of the hailstorm on August 15th can now largely be overseen. Thus, the entire region partly laments...

FRANCE (Burgundy) - Like in parts of the Bordelaise region, the Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne (BIVB) is now also reporting that possible losses of the 2008 yield in Burgundy - compared to the 2007...