Wine Industry News
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(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... -
(PRNewswire) - A new report from Rabobank's global Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory department provides an overview of the five key megatrends which will shape the outlook for the global beverage industry in 2012, and highlights issues which are making this both the "best of times" and "wor...Rabobank Outlook for Global Beverage Industry - "Best of Times, Worst of Times"
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(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...NZ: Two more vineyards forced to sell
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(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...US: Napa industrial, retail real estate strengthens
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(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...Let’s Take the Fake Romance Out of Wine
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(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...NZ: Bulk wine export figures up
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(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...Avoid $2,000 Bottles of Aging Vintages, Go With Younger Wine
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(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,...Slovenia joins opposition to wine liberalisation plans
February, 13, 2012

