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Extreme freeze damages Ontario vineyards

March 5, 2014

Decanter.com.- Freezing temperatures across Ontario have damaged vines in the Canadian province’s vineyards, with some producers reporting bud loss of around 90%. Producers in two of Ontario three wine appellations are already facing a smaller 2014 harvest after reporting severe bud loss in the past few weeks. ‘Our winery has 95 to 98% bud loss, so we won’t be getting grapes this year,’ says Tom O’Brien, owner of Cooper’s Hawk Vineyards in Lake Erie North Shore. That appellation shows the…

UK court closes wine investment firm with millions owed

February 28, 2014

Cortahojas Wines

Decanter.com.- A UK wine investment company that took millions of pounds of investors’ money for wine it never had access to has been closed in the public interest. Bordeaux Fine Wines Ltd (BFW) was shut down by the High Court in London this week, following a petition from the UK Government’s Insolvency Service. Its only director and shareholder, 30-year-old Kenneth Gundlach, didn’t show up in court. But, Gundlach admitted in a written statement that he failed to buy sufficient wine and…

Parte temporada de vendimia con caída de 20% en producción total y hasta 50% en Chardonnay

February 28, 2014

Cortahojas Wines

El sauvignon blanc es otra de las variedades que registran las mayores bajas, principalmente en la zona central. DiarioFinanciero.cl.- El importante descenso en la cosecha de uvas está marcando el inicio de la vendimia 2014. Distintas viñas concuerdan en que la producción este año será un 20% menor que la de 2013, y que alcanzará los mil millones de litros de vino, distante de los casi 1.300 millones de la histórica temporada pasada. Sin embargo, esto no afectará tanto los…

The Accidental Wine

February 27, 2014

Cortahojas Wines

Winemag.com.-by Michael Schachner. – Grown in only a few of the world’s wine regions, dark, idiosyncratic Carmenère has found a comfortable home in Chile’s warm valleys. Two decades ago, Jean-Michel Boursiquot, a French ampelographer hired to help wineries in Chile’s Maule Valley determine what grape varieties were in their oldest vineyards, dropped a bombshell on his clients. Thousands of acres that the Chileans had long thought were Merlot were actually an obscure variety called Carmenère. “Carmen-what?” the Chileans asked. Originally imported…