"Today," Melanie Cressman, Marketing Communications Manager at Vinventions, says, "traditional one-piece is around 9-10% of the global market and technical corks are down to 18%." Alternative closures have had success in the marketplace. She says they accounted for almost 45% in 2018 a nd that, "screw caps make up about 32% of the global [wine bottle] closure market." Read more...

The ideas set out in this short paper arose as a result of 30 years of working with olive trees and vines in Montalcino, Tuscany. The goal of this essay, to be read as a series of considerations, is to awaken us to a modernized and pertinent vision of biodynamics, as seen from the viewpoint of a twenty-first-century organic winemaker. Read more...

The OCW is hosting the second-annual Ontario Craft Wine Conference & Trade Show on Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 at the Beanfield Centre in Toronto. This Conference is for the wine industry to learn, network and interact with suppliers. Topics range from private retailing, accessing funding for Ontario wineries, strategies for premium pricing, wine and grocery, to wine experiments that worked, and more. The Conference’s theme, Changing Landscapes in the Wine Industry will be reflected in each breakout session. Read more...

In 2013 Ollie Sakhno opened the wine bar Keuka Kafe. Not as you might expect here in the Finger Lakes, home to Keuka Lake, but in Forest Hills in the New York City borough of Queens. On average, Keuka Kafe has about 10 to 12 Finger Lakes wines in stock at any given time in addition to others from around the world. Among the eight now featured “almost spring” wines on the Kafe’s Facebook page are Forge Winery’s Dry Riesling and a Pinot Noir Brut Rose by Goose Watch Winery.  Read more...

The Hudson Valley, expanding upward after a 45-minute drive north out of Manhattan, became the United States’ first wine region when, lore says, French Huguenot settlers planted grapevines more than 300 years ago in what is now Ulster County. In 1982, the zone earned itself an AVA: the Hudson River Region , today rich in quality hybrids and suitable vinifera.   Read more...

An upscale Long Island vineyard that was owned and operated by late Hollywood mogul Michael Lynne has been put up for sale with an asking price of $17.9 million. Bedell Cellars has made small batches of wine for 35 years, all from grapes grown on the Bedell properties. Read more...

On a recent spring morning, in New York City’s iconic Rainbow Room, sixty-five floors above Midtown, The New York Wine & Grape Foundation held its Eighth Annual NY Drinks NY Grand Tasting. The day was clear, with One World Trade and The Empire State Building in perfect sight. The sunlight danced into the room with an extra spring in its step, reflecting the confidence and curiosity of the state’s finest winemakers and tasters. Read more...

In true NY fashion, guests enjoyed more than 200 wines from over 50 wineries based in Hudson Valley, Finger Lakes and Long Island, including many of Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing (LISW) participating wineries, including Bedell Cellars, Paumanok, Wolffer Estate Vineyard, and Channing Daughters Winery who were presented the first-ever Sustainability Award for their outstanding sustainable viticulture certification program, less than two weeks prior, as part of the organization’s annual Unity Awards honors. Read more...

A couple weeks ago, several members of The Cork Report team attended NY Drinks NY , a press/trade tasting including more than three dozen New York wineries. Over the course of the four-hour event, we tasted, some of us (not Carlo) spit, we talked and then we grabbed dinner together.   Read more...