Success in Wine Business = Fruit Wines

In the wine world these days, to “make” it, you need either to start with millions, wine millions of awards and know how to market that or increasingly work with niche products.
For anyone trying to enter the wine business, fruit wines is a great alternative niche which puts you ahead of the game…
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Booming BC Bluebbery!

Fruit production in Western Canada is booming. The main surge in growth is due to blueberries. BC is not only well known for its fresh blueberry fruit but also for its blueberry wines made by at least 7 fruit wineries and enjoyed all over the country and the key export markets of Asia, especially Japan [...]

A Japanese Fruit Wine Ad

Those Japanese love their fruit wine! A great ad from a country where fruit wines are pretty much as mainstream as grape wines. Enjoy!

More Medals for Field Stone!

Field Stone Fruit Wines, a Strathmore winery located east of Calgary that makes wines from its own crops of fruit and berries, recently won awards at two North American wine competitions.
Field Stone’s new Strawberry-Rhubarb Table Wine won the bronze medal in the Non Grape/Fruit Wine category at the North West Wine Summit 2008, which had [...]

A Fruit Bowl Full of Fine Summer Wines

By: Jurgen Gothe
Fruit-forward, massive fruit, fruit-driven—these are all terms we wine commentators toss around, in our berry basket of terminology, when talking about wines that are fresh and lively and, yes, fruity.
Maybe we should really be saying merlot-forward or massive viognier or pinot-driven, those grapes being the prime components. Today, some bottles are truly fruit-forward, [...]

Downey’s celebrates 15 years

Downey’s Farm Market will be celebrating 15 years of direct farm marketing on Sunday, June 15.
Downey’s Farm in Caledon grows ‘fruit, fun and memories’. Owned and operated by the Downey family, Downey’s Farm Market will be celebrating 15 years of this agritourism. The farm is a popular entertainment centre for birthday parties, school tours and [...]

Canadian Wine Annual Includes New Brunswick Fruit Wineries

The 2008 edition of the Canadian Wine Annual was recently released to stores across the country. This annual publication from Wine Access is a guide to the wines, wineries (393 of them, according to the cover) and wine regions of Canada. In addition to listings for all wineries, including fruit wine producers, the guide gives [...]

Vinexpo Hong Kong ‘08 – Fruit Wine Success in Asia!

Last week in Hong Kong was the bi-annual Asia-Pacific version of the hugely popular VINEXPO wine trade fair. It is a place where the entire wine world meets, exchanges technical and marketing ideas, and where new wines are on showcase. It is also a time when buyers often make purchasing decisions based on market trends [...]

Vinexpo Hong Kong ‘08 – Fruit Wine Success in Asia!

Last week in Hong Kong was the bi-annual Asia-Pacific version of the hugely popular VINEXPO wine trade fair. It is a place where the entire wine world meets, exchanges technical and marketing ideas, and where new wines are on showcase. It is also a time when buyers often make purchasing decisions based on market trends [...]