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Wine-searcher.com/.- Wine producers and retailers are looking beyond the People’s Republic to grow sales. Young middle-class drinkers from Asia’s emerging economies are being targeted as China’s voracious appetite for wine dries up, organizers said ahead of the region’s largest-ever wine and spirits fair. The Vinexpo trade show, which opens Tuesday in Hong Kong and is set to attract more than 1000 exhibitors from around the world, comes as Chinese wine consumption saw its first decline in a decade last year,…

Growingproduce.com/.- Cornell University Cooperative Extension Finger Lakes Grape Program is sponsoring a seminar, “Lessons Learned from California’s Original Sustainable Winegrowing Certification Program: The Lodi Rules,” on June 5 from 5-6 p.m. The presentation will be held at Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY. Matthew Hoffman, grower program coordinator for the Lodi Winegrape Commission, will discuss the Lodi, CA, grape industry’s experience with their sustainability certification program, The Lodi Rules for Sustainable Winegrowing. This program was the…

Winespectator.com/.- A first look at vintage quality down south, with eyewitness reports from growers and winemakers. Ready to taste the first wines of 2014? While vines are just flowering in Europe and North America, the Southern Hemisphere has picked, crushed and fermented this year’s crop. Vintners in South America’s leading wine nations—Chile and Argentina—did not face an easy growing season. In Chile, a severe spring frost created one of the smallest crops in years, but a good harvest season produced…

Winespectator.com/.- A first look at vintage quality down south, with eyewitness reports from growers and winemakers. Ready to taste the first wines of 2014? While vines are just flowering in Europe and North America, the Southern Hemisphere has picked, crushed and fermented this year’s crop. Vintners in South Africa report a wet and wild year. A rainy spring produced a lot of grapes, but a nice dry spell in February allowed whites to ripen. But then the rains came back,…