Wine Industry News

  • France: Wilmers buys Haut-Bailly neighbour

    (Decanter) - Robert Wilmers, owner of Chateau Haut-Bailly, has bought his immediate neighbour Chateau Le Pape. The seven-hectare Chateau Le Pape (pictured), owned by Patrick Monjanel since 1998, is located on the highest point of the Pessac Leognan appellation. The vineyard is planted to 80% Merl...
  • NZ: Two more vineyards forced to sell

    (Stuff) - Two more Awatere Valley vineyards are up for mortgagee and receivership sale, almost 18 months after a still-to-be-sold 128-hectare vineyard was first listed for sale by the receivers of failed wine company Awatere Vineyard Estates. Tetley Brook Vineyard, a 50-hectare sauvignon blanc ho...
  • US: Napa industrial, retail real estate strengthens

    (NBBJ) - Industrial real estate in southern Napa County is enjoying a resurgence of business activity in wine-related businesses, and retail real estate activity is picking up with major properties under construction or being considered for repositioning or redevelopment. Of about 10.5 million sq...
  • Let’s Take the Fake Romance Out of Wine

    (Palatepress) - Quiver in fear, wine lovers: Tomorrow is for chocolate-infused wine and wines with names like Flirt or Je T’Aime (Bitch is for Feb. 15 and after). All holidays have wine and food marketing, and some, like the minor regional Mexican holiday on May 5, seem entirely created by marketi...
  • NZ: Bulk wine export figures up

    (Stuff) - The amount of bulk wine exported by New Zealand wineries increased to about 35 per cent of all exports last year, but the amount of bulk wine flowing out of the country appears to be slowing, New Zealand Winegrowers says. Kiwi wineries exported 168.1 million litres last year, earning $1...
  • Avoid $2,000 Bottles of Aging Vintages, Go With Younger Wine

    (Bloomberg) - Pianist Arthur Rubinstein was fond of telling the story of the wine connoisseur who once invited the composer Johannes Brahms to dinner: “This is the Brahms of my cellar,” said the collector to his guests, filling the master’s glass from a dusty bottle. Brahms looked at the color...
  • Slovenia joins opposition to wine liberalisation plans

    (Europolitics) - Slovenia has become the fourteenth EU member state to voice opposition against the liberalisation of vine planting rights, scheduled to begin from 2016, claiming that maintaining the current system “is the right way to balance EU wine production”. In a letter to Jean-Paul Bachy,...

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