Wine Industry News
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(SeattleTimes) - Costco Wholesale's first quarter profit rose 2.6 percent despite the company spending $17 million during the quarter to help pass Initiative 1183, which privatizes liquor sales in Washington. The Issaquah-based retailer spent an additional $2 million on the measure in the fourth ... -
(Thelocal) - Scientists want to study samples of the world’s oldest wine, currently on display at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in the western German city of Speyer. There’s just one problem: everyone’s afraid to open the bottle. The glass bottle, thought to be at least 1,650 years o...Germany: Museum scared to open ancient Roman wine
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(Fastcompany) - New York-based startup Lot18 is bringing its online wine business to Europe, acquiring Paris-based Vinobest for an undisclosed sum. The two-year-old company, often referred to as a sort of epicurean Gilt Groupe because it sells wine and gourmet food via online flash sales, now looks ...Lot18 Expands Wine Flash-Sale Dominance To Europe, Acquires Paris-based Vinobest
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(CNNMoney) - Think you're spending a lot more for your French wines than you did in 1986? It all depends on which ones. I complain about wine prices. A lot. Maybe I'm just jaded, or spoiled since I've been buying wine for so long, or perhaps my standard of living has simply eroded. Then again, I've ...How wine prices have changed over 25 years
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(TheEpochTimes) - Winemakers and filmmakers alike have long shared California, yet I recall only a handful of movies where the subject matter dealt directly with oenology—the culture of wine. My earliest memory of a movie revolving around a winery is, “This Earth Is Mine” (1959), featuring ...Wine and Hollywood
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(JapanTimes) - For years Yamanashi Prefecture, one of Japan's leading wine regions, has boasted the virtues of its domestic output even though the home market is largely dominated by cheaper imports, including "domestic wine" made with imported grapes. In 2003, the prefecture launched an annual w...Yamanashi strives for wine 100% made in Japan
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(Decanter) - Dom Perignon launched the 2003 vintage last night in London – and simultaneously in Paris, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The tasting took place at art dealers Philips de Pury in Westminster, where a dimly lit industrial space was decorated with a Twitter display on the wall – const...Truffled eggs and holograms: Dom Perignon launches 2003 vintage
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(Palatepress) - A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but does an aluminum can always signal a low brow beverage? Less than ten years ago, canned beers were limited to low-flavor, mass-produced macrobrews. A small craft brewer decided to change that stigma. In November 2002, Oskar Blues Bre...‘Can’ Packaging from Beer World Work with Wine Too?
December, 08, 2011

