International – News & Wine

International – News & Wine brings together news, insights, and analysis from the international wine world. This section follows current events in major producing countries, foreign markets, appellations, producers, and global wine business trends. It also covers agricultural policies, exports, international trade fairs, and the economic dynamics influencing the wine sector outside of Italy.

Institute of Masters of Wine: IWSC returns as official supporter

Institute of Masters of Wine: IWSC returns as official supporter

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IWSC returns as an official supporter of the Institute of Masters of Wine. The two organizations are renewing a collaboration launched in 2018, focused particularly on scholarships for students working toward becoming Masters of Wine. To date, the international competition has supported 39 candidates. The collaboration began with the awarding of the first scholarships, later

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European wine tariffs, USWTA in Washington "They harm Americans." U.S. Wine Trade Alliance to the Office of the United States Trade Representative

European wine tariffs, USWTA in Washington: “They harm Americans”

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Tariffs on European wine would harm U.S. businesses, workers, and wineries. That’s the message brought to Washington by the U.S. Wine Trade Alliance, which appeared before the Office of the United States Trade Representative as part of the Section 301 investigation into policies against forced labor. Not a novelty, but a confirmation of the industry’s

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Opus One, Michael Silacci to retire after the 2026 harvest

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Opus One, Michael Silacci, Napa Valley, and the 2026 harvest: four keywords that mark the end of a long technical era for one of the iconic wineries of Californian wine. The Oakville winery has announced the planned retirement of its winemaker at the end of the next harvest. Silacci will retire after twenty-five years at

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Best Tavel AOC 2025, 2024, and 2023: All the scores. The best wineries producing the typical deep rosé of the Rhône

Best Tavel AOC 2025, 2024, and 2023: All the scores

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Best Tavel AOC 2025, 2024, and 2023: All the scores for the typical deep rosés of the Southern Rhône region, in a phase of profound transition for local vignerons. The temptation to “lighten” the color of the wines to make them less extractive and capture new market segments, following the Provence model, is great. But

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Tavel, the deep rosé at a crossroads in France: will the dictatorship of pale rosé win? Doubtful producers: is pale pink better, like in Provence?

Tavel, the deep rosé at a crossroads in France: will the dictatorship of pale rosé win?

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Among the best rosés on the market in the world today, Tavel occupies an anomalous place. It is one of the few French rosés to have a historical, territorial, and gastronomic identity so defined as to be immediately recognizable. But today Tavel does not present itself with the color that the international market has learned

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European wine, new risk of US tariffs USWTA mobilizes American sellers. The U.S. Wine Trade Alliance is mobilizing American importers

European wine, new risk of US tariffs: USWTA mobilizes American sellers

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European wine is back under pressure in the United States. It risks ending up within a new tariff measure built around the issue of forced labor, despite no direct accusations against the wine industry on this front. The dossier stems from Section 301 investigations launched by the USTR, the Office of the United States Trade

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ProWein Sparkling Report: Premium, Emerging Regions, and Zero Alcohol

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The global wine market is slowing down, but sparkling wines are not. Or at least they’re holding up better than many other categories. This is the picture emerging from the first Sparkling Report published by ProWein, a new market analysis dedicated to the global sparkling wine sector and made available free of charge by the

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