VINEYARD

Global wine production stuck in a rut: trade body

BAD weather means global wine production this year will remain near a 60-year low according to preliminary estimates, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) said Monday.

Joe Tsai has a net worth of about US$6.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, partly derived from his 1.4 per cent stake in Alibaba.

Alibaba’s Joe Tsai joins billionaires investing in French vineyards

JOE Tsai, chairman and co-founder of China e-commerce pioneer Alibaba Group Holding, has joined the ranks of billionaires investing in prestigious French vineyards.

The world’s most complex wine region is a farrago of small producers, ambiguous climate, the temperamental pinot noir grape, baroque classification rules, and the vagaries of inheritance.
LIFE & CULTURE

How Burgundy explains life

Complex and unreliable, the wine region resembles the experience of living

Climate change, too, has played a role in wine making as warmer temperatures have made it easier to ripen grapes in some vineyards where the vines used to struggle to mature.

An underappreciated Burgundy wine region is upward bound

The soaring demand and high regard for Burgundy around the world means that little of the Côte d’Or, the region’s heart, has been left unturned. But if an off-the-beaten-trail source for relative barg...

Drone buzzes above vineyard helping Luxembourg winegrower

Drone buzzes above vineyard helping Luxembourg winegrower

BUZZING like a giant insect over the verdant Moselle Valley, a drone sprays fungicide over rows of vines.

Weather woes hit French vineyards: wine production seen falling this year

Weather woes hit French vineyards: wine production seen falling this year

[PARIS] Wine output in France, the world's second largest producer, may fall by as much as 13 per cent this year after vineyards were hit by adverse weather including hail, frost and a record-breaking...