Europe is putting real momentum behind energy efficiency and sustainability, and the wine sector is right in the middle of it. We were at Barcelona Wine Week. The message was that automation and AI are becoming practical tools to run operations better, cut energy use, and make faster decisions based on real data. That is where VinWizard fits, energy efficiency for wineries through automation, connecting operations, data, and control to deliver measurable savings without major infrastructure changes. In Spain, this push is also being driven by the Federación Española del Vino (FEV) and its Digitalization Hub, bringing wineries and technology companies together to accelerate real projects.  

Quest for Well-being, Thirst for Experimentation, and Pursuit of Sustainability: Verallia unveils its 2025 Trends for the Wine and Spirits Market Each year, Verallia, the European leader in glass packaging, presents its Trend Book for the wine and spirits market. Created this year in collaboration with Barcelona-based agency Morillas, the Trends Book aims to inspire and highlight key sector developments and future directions. For 2025, four major trends emerge in response to more engaged consumers seeking new experiences and prioritizing well-being above all. This Trends Book will also introduce new designs ready to be developed by Verallia’s teams. Reflecting new wine and spirits consumption practices, the 2025 Trends Book is viewed through the lens of three distinct consumer profiles. The Drink Personas shaping new market horizons The Eco-activists: Concerned with environmental issues, they favour brands committed to sustainability (local production, recyclable packaging,

“The global wine industry,” wrote Rabobank in its latest Wine Quarterly, “has evolved in a context of cheap freight, cheap energy, and declining trade barriers […] these assumptions may be far less certain than we had previously assumed”. We echo this message, though we see each of the three assumptions being challenged to differing extents.  The last issue cited, the re-emergence of trade barriers, can be attributable to localised political volatility that eventually passes: for example, the US-EU aircraft subsidies dispute appears to be over, so too Brexit’s acutest effects on trade. The world is united in hoping the Russia-Ukraine conflict, too, ends imminently. Such wounds to global trade are patched-up by workarounds and innovation; trade adjusts to the new realities, and carries on. China’s blocking of Australian wine imports is an opportunity for red wine suppliers elsewhere in the world, for example.  Of greater fundamental c

‘Raimat Natura’, a 700-hectare park in Costers del Segre D.O. and home to more than 100 different species of flora and fauna, will open its doors with free admission to the public in the Spring 2021. Barcelona, December 1, 2020 – Raimat winery estate, focused on becoming one of the leading Spanish wineries with the organic production certificate granted by the […] The post Raimat Winery Starts Project to Open Spain’s Largest Vineyard Nature Reserve appeared first on Wine Industry Advisor. Url:https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2020/12/02/raimat-spains-largest-vineyard?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=raimat-spains-largest-vineyard Published Date:Wed, 02 Dec 2020 19:13:27 +0000 

Estal’s Wildly Crafted collection, designed together with SeriesNemo, has been recognised at the prestigious Pentawards with the Gold Award in the sustainable design category Barcelona, 9 October  – Estal, a company specializing in the development of premium packaging, has seen how the differentiation, innovation and sustainability of its products was once again recognized in the […] The post Wildly Crafted’s Natural Beauty Icon and Estal’s Sommelier Collection, Awarded at the Pentawards 2020 appeared first on Wine Industry Advisor. Url:https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2020/10/09/estals-sommelier-collection-pentawards-2020?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=estals-sommelier-collection-pentawards-2020 Published Date:Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:13:03 +0000 

As the world moves into the second phase of its COVID-19 response – gradually easing restrictions and learning to live indefinitely with social distancing guidelines – we can see the first phase has left behind a significant level of inventory that would in normal times have supplied the on-trade. Spain, which implemented one of the world’s strictest lockdowns, has now permitted the reopening of outside terraces of restaurants and bars, albeit at a third of capacity and not in Madrid or Barcelona – a tentative early sign, perhaps, that on-trade demand may at least recover somewhat in the coming months even in those countries hardest-hit.  Many suppliers of on-trade wines have been working to redirect their supply into the off-trade channels and online, mainly to the supermarkets which have remained open throughout the lockdowns and which, in most countries, have been permitted to continue selling alcohol. This redirection is not always possible for supplier