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Westernfarmpress.com./-  In his 25 years as a California wine grape buyer and broker, Brian Clements has yet to see three big crops in row. That may change this year. “Most observers suspect average to higher production in most areas of California and across most varieties,” says Clements, vice president of Turrentine Brokerage, Novato, Calif. At least that’s what cluster counts may be indicating. If the main cordons are producing shoots with two clusters each, this is generally considered to signify…

Cesonoma.ucanr.edu.- / Agriculture has been and is increasingly scrutinized for the amount of water used for irrigation and frost protection. North coast growers in many frost prone areas utilize overhead sprinklers to protect vineyards from spring frosts; however, increasingly growers are contemplating purchasing conventional wind machines to reduce the reliance on water for frost protection. Wind machines provide frost protection only when a temperature inversion exists, thus local inversion conditions need to be quantified in order for growers to make…

Decanter.com /.-  At least half the Chateau Lafite sold in China is fake and, like other high end Bordeaux counterfeits, probably made on boats moored in international waters off the mainland coast, a senior Chinese government official has said. Speaking on the side lines of a conference in Bordeaux to launch a new Chinese government anti-fraud effort called PEOP, Xinshi Li, president of the Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine (CAIQ), described the problem of fake Bordeaux wine in China…

Un aumento de 157% registraron los envíos de vino embotellado a China durante marzo, medido en volumen, informó Vinos de Chile. La nación asiática también lideró el alza medido en valor, de 110%, durante el mismo mes. En tanto, Corea del Sur fue el único país dentro de los diez países de mayor destino que registró retroceso en las exportaciones, con una caída de 5,44% en volumen y 2,16% en valor. Durante marzo, Estados Unidos se posicionó como el principal…