Monday August 5th 2013
Today’s Liquor Industry News/Links
By: Mark C Lenzi CSW
America Won’t Have Enough Grapes To Make All Of The Wine It Wants To Drink
By: SAM RO
Read more:
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-wine-grape-shortage-developing-2013-8#ixzz2b6tycAWt
Beer or Wine? The Answer May Depend on Your Gender
Overall Americans say they like both about the same, but women still prefer wine
By Erica Ho
Overall, 60% of Americans indicate that they at least drink on occasion, down from the historical average of 63% since 1939.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/08/02/beer-or-wine-the-answer-may-depend-on-your-gender/#ixzz2b6uy80c2
A Taste Of Mexico’s Wine Country
Read All About It:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestravelguide/2013/08/05/a-taste-of-mexicos-wine-country/
Oregon-based Rogue Ales will launch Rogue Farms Pumpkin Patch Ale this fall. Pumpkin Patch will be available on draft and in 750-ml. bottles stores in October. The new brew is made using pumpkins grown and harvested at Rogue Farms, located 77 miles away from Rogue Ales brewery in Independence. The pumpkins are hand chopped and seeded, roasted in a pizza oven and then put fresh into the brew kettle to create the beer. The release of Pumpkin Patch Ale follows closely on the heels of the launch of another beer, Honey Kölsch, which was also created using ingredients from Rogue Farms. Rogue’s extensive line of craft beers is available across all 50 states.
Wine of the Week: Chateau Ste. Michelle, Columbia Valley, Dry Riesling 2011
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Champagne yield set for 2013 harvest
Source: Decanter
by Giles Fallowfield
Friday 2 August 2013
The yield for the 2013 Champagne harvest has been set at 10,000 kilograms per hectare, with an additional 500kg/ha allowed to be released from producers’ reserve stocks next February, the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC) has announced.
Vineyard owners can also put up to 3,100kg/ha more into their own reserve stocks (Resérve Individuelle), providing that reserve doesn’t exceed 10,000kg/ha, which is unlikely in most cases given the small 2012 harvest.
On average, across the entire appellation, producers hold 6,400kg/ha in their reserves.
Réserve Individuelle is still wine, held in tank, that hasn’t been though secondary fermentation. This stock is held by individual producers as security to be used when vineyards are affected by natural disasters limiting overall production.
Setting a yield of 10,500kg/ha, the equivalent to 305 million bottles of Champagne, signifies the shipment levels the CIVC believes will be reached by the end of 2013. This is roughly 3% down on the 315 million bottles shipped in 2012.
While some view this as conservative, others see it as optimistic with overall shipments in the first six months of 2013 dropping by 3.1% to just 108m bottles.
Michel Letter MD of Pernod Ricard’s Champagne interests (G.H.Mumm and Perrier-Jouët) who sits on the CIVC statistics committee which provides the information that informs yield decisions says: ‘While some wanted 10,000kg/ha to be the maximum, the houses with lower stocks were looking for more like 10,800kg/ha, but the difference between the two sides was not that large, and that’s why we reached agreement quite rapidly compared with last year.
‘In 2012 only 197m bottles were shipped between July and December and if we see that volume decline by 3.1% we’ll be looking at around 294m bottles for 2013,’ he added.
In the European market, shipments were down 7.1% to just over 24m bottles while the French domestic market fell 5.1% to 58.8m bottles. Only markets outside Europe grew, up 6.8% to 25.1m bottles.
Last year while the highest allowable yield was set at 11,000kg/ha, average yields only reached 9,242kg/ha. However Jean-Luc Barbier, CEO of the CIVC, says; ‘The situation is different this year with the harvest volume expected to be much higher. Flowering took place in early July in very favorable weather conditions leaving hope for a potentially beautiful harvest.’
This isn’t the whole picture as Letter notes; ‘In some areas there was heavy rain during flowering and there are problems with ‘millerandage’ in Côtes des Blanc which will affect yields. Pinot noir vineyards are OK however, with a lot of grapes.’
‘10,000kg/ha is a reasonable level for the 2013 harvest. It shows that both négoce and vignerons are wise and that they have the common interest of our region in mind which pleases me very much,’ says Michel Drappier.
Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon at Louis Roederer also sees it as ‘a good decision: the 10,000kg/ha figure plus 500kg/ha déblocage (the amount of wine taken from producers’ individual reserves) covers more or less the projected sales. If the sales happen to be higher than expected, a new déblocage could be decided.
‘Also, let’s not forget that we are facing an October harvest which is always difficult to ripen. The difficulty will be the actual yield (agronomic yields) that could be high in the late ripening areas due to late flowering under perfect sunny conditions. The yields could be very high and ripeness could be complicated.’
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