While international wine trade reached a record high in value terms in 2022, this was down to a sharp rise in prices from higher costs across the supply chain. In volume terms, global wine exports decreased 5% on the prior year.
As more and more French consumers look to buy organic, production of organic wine in France is increasing and more vineyards are turning to the practice.
A keen sense of taste and smell is a fundamental part of being an oenologist - or working just about anywhere in the wine industry. So what happens when a professional - who depends on these senses - loses them from COVID-19?
Bottles of French wine have returned to Earth following a stint on the International Space Station: with researchers now ready to assess how the wine has changed.
While the US is the most developed market for kombucha, the category is growing in Europe with the drink’s natural and functional positioning ready to tap into health and wellness trends. But the evolution of the French, German and UK markets shows the...
The Coca-Cola Company will invest a billion euros ($1.1bn) in France over the next five years, which will help expand bottling capacity, modernize plants and introduce new products.
Pernod Ricard will open around 280 roles to voluntary redundancy as it consolidates its French operations and seeks to return sales in the country to growth.
This year’s Champagne grape harvest has suffered from heatwaves in June and July, with scalding burning more than 10% of the potential harvest. But the quality of the harvest is high, according to Comité Champagne
The organic wine category has been growing for several years: but as consumers become more and more concerned about what they eat and drink there's now a real sense of acceleration in the category. And the latest figures show impressive growth in...
‘The craft beer revolution has spread across the continent’
Craft brewing organisations from nine European countries are working towards the formation of the Independent Brewers of Europe, an organisation which will promote and advance the mutual interests of their members with European institutions and the media....
Sugar industry body CEDUS Le Sucre has attacked what it described as “unacceptable” and “damaging” moves from the French government to “scapegoat” the sugar industry as legislators put in place moves to amend the country’s sugar tax.
Food packaging technology supplier Synerlink has acquired Ermi, which manufactures aseptic fill-seal bottle and cup fillers for milk, desserts, yogurts and juices.
Red Bull has welcomed a ruling from France’s highest constitutional court striking-down the government’s plans to tax caffeine and taurine-rich energy drinks from 2013.
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) says it is focusing on the London 2012 Olympics to spur sales, but admits that any French soda tax could lead to retail price rises there of around 10 per cent.
PET is unlikely to replace glass as the material of choice for French wine producers but at Emballage in Paris this week plastic packaging firms said demand from the wine sector is increasing fast.
Private label beers have traditionally struggled to compete with big branded rivals in Western Europe but new Canadean research suggests the recession has given them a larger slice of the market.
The functional foods industry in France is booming, according to a
report from Invest In France that claims the sector attracted 7 per
cent of all new foreign investment projects in the country between
2002 and 2007.
This week, Heineken announces a restructuring of its French
operations and Australian drinks group Lion Nathan hopes to give US
consumers a taste of leading wine brands.
Militant winemakers have claimed responsibility for explosions and
fires at several supermarkets in southern France, raising concerns
of a return to violence in the region.
Food firms should be crossing their fingers that a new French
president can blow away the black cloud hanging over consumer
confidence in the country, says a new survey.
As French winemakers prepare for the annual rush to pull in this
year's grape harvest, anyone who does not own a Chateau is looking
cautiously ahead at another year of problems.
The 'South of France' wine brand, covering thousands of producers
in France's biggest wine region, is set to hit supermarkets next
year as winemakers look to regroup against the New World onslaught.
Commission plans to sort out Europe's ailing wine sector hit their
first road block within hours of being unveiled, after the French
government rejected key proposals as too destructive.
The re-opening of a radioactive waste dump in France's Champagne
region, recently shut for safety reasons, threatens to contaminate
the area's famous vineyards, says campaigns group Greenpeace.
Americans will replace the French as the world's biggest wine
drinkers within three years, says new research, putting greater
pressure on France's shrinking share of wine exports.
The French government has launched a multi-million euro rescue plan
for France's ailing wine industry, including €12m export support
and an overhaul of the quality control system.
A new 'South of France' wine brand covering the whole of France's
biggest wine region, Languedoc Roussillon, has been launched to
help French wine re-assert itself on the world stage.
ViniSud, a showcase of the up-and-coming wines from the Languedoc
region of France, begins in Montpellier today, occurring in a
region that epitomises the current problems affecting the industry.
French prime minister Dominique de Villepin said the plan would
help to dig France out of wine crisis, yet under-pressure
winemakers are planning more protests.
French wine sector leaders have launched a battle plan to tackle
the industry crisis, including fixed minimum prices and vineyard
conversions, as militants re-launch their campaign in the south.
French wine makers are planning a new protest in Narbonne, the
centre of violent scenes earlier this year, in answer to the
continuing low prices on the market and poor government support.
Prices for quality French wines have continued to crumble in recent
months as the gap closes between them and their less regulated
counterparts, leaving ominous signs for the future of some in the
industry.
Under-pressure vintners in southern France have handed out 50,000
free bottles of wine to tourists to publicise their plight as
prices continue to crumble amid a huge bottleneck in supply.
Crisis in the French wine industry is spurring producers'
acceptance of aggressive marketing strategies that, whilst perhaps
long-overlooked, could be worrying for foreign producers on an
increasingly competitive world market,...
Masked militants decimated a wine distillery in southern France
only hours after thousands of vintners protested through the
streets of Nimes over the intense pressure on the French wine
industry, reports Chris Mercer from Nimes.
Angry French wine makers clashed with riot police in Narbonne
yesterday, turning the city centre into a smoking battle zone in
protest at a lack of government support for their ailing industry,
reports Chris Mercer from Narbonne.
French wine makers, set for another round of protests, today met
with the country's agriculture minister in their campaign to get
more state aid to protect their industry from falling consumption,
foreign competition and overproduction,...
In the last two years Spain, France and Italy's wine production has
increased by over 8 million hectolitres each. In the face of a
global glut, the French wine confederation is calling on the EU to
fund a crisis distillation,...
Swedish probiotics firm BioGaia has developed a screw cap for use
on PET bottles, which releases ingredients such as its probiotic
bacteria or vitamins into the beverage,writes Dominique
Patton.
FoodProductiondaily.com recently visited a research unit in
the south of France to find more out about the role science plays
in improving the quality of cereal-based foods. Some recent
discoveries could be of great benefit to the...
