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Marqués de Cáceres collects Spain's best white wine award
Los Altares 2016, the Cenicero winery's first white Gran Reserva, came through a shortlist drawn from Bacchus 2026 and received its prize at Madrid's Teatro Real.
Rioja closes its earliest grape harvest on record
Growers brought in 333.77 million kilograms of grapes, 48% more than last year, in a season compressed by persistent heat.
Best Sommelier of the World 2026: 20 semi-finalists named
Five women made the cut, a first for the contest. Reeze Choi and Pascaline Lepeltier are back for another run, while Belgium and host nation Portugal went out in the quarter-finals.
Rafa Nadal wine: El Tenista, an organic Monastrell from Jumilla
The tennis player and Viñas Familia Gil, the family behind Bodegas Juan Gil, release a limited edition from 50-year-old ungrafted vines. Vintage and bottle count are not public.
Antinori wine theft: 30,000 bottles reported stolen in Cortona
Italian media put the value at about €5 million. Carabinieri and police are investigating, no arrests are reported, and the sources disagree on the night it happened and on bottle prices.
Mexico wine grape production rises to 83,178 tonnes in 2025
The agriculture ministry counts 6,071 more tonnes than in 2023 and a crop worth 22.8% more. Baja California leads, and three states grow three quarters of the total.
Merano WineFestival sets up a wine observatory for 2027
The 35th edition opens at the Kurhaus on 6 November with 810 exhibitors. Its founder also wants the fair to start measuring how wine will be made, sold and drunk.
Treasury Wine Estates job cuts remove 170 corporate roles
The Melbourne-based owner of Penfolds confirms the redundancies, mostly in corporate functions, while it replaces three divisions with regions and keeps hiring for its sales teams.
Wine Routes of Spain reaches 40 with Condado de Huelva and León
ACEVIN's board certified both routes on 30 September. The club publishes the map and the grapes, but not yet how many wineries and hotels have signed up to either of them.
Napa red blotch research gets a $2.5 million grower pledge
Wineries including Opus One and Dominus Estate are funding three years of work on a vine virus that has no cure. The first calls for proposals open in January 2027.
Altar wine for Pope Leo's Córdoba Mass comes from Maipú
A Salesian winery in Rodeo del Medio, Mendoza, will supply the wine for the Mass Leo XIV celebrates in Córdoba on 10 November, and students help make it.
Majestic Wine: Tesco joins the auction, Sky News reports
Fortress Investment Group is selling the UK wine retailer it bought for £95m in 2019. Tesco is reportedly among the bidders, but nobody has confirmed it.
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