Wine Industry News
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(Theaustralian) - TREASURY Wine Estates will inherit the mantle of Australia's biggest locally owned alcohol company in December, when shareholders in former stablemate Foster's are expected to approve a $12.3 billion takeover by British-South African beverage giant SABMiller. TWE managing direct... -
(Tricityherald) - Tractors still dot the fruit-and-nut themed roads (plum, pecan, apricot) of Canyon County's Sunny Slope, but these days party-themed limousines and weekend wine tourists are also in evidence. Their quarry is a cluster of mostly small wineries with an increasingly big reputation....US: Idaho wine country continues to grow
October, 30, 2011 -
(Decanter) - Russian sparkling wine producers are to stop using the Shampanskoye name on labels after an historic agreement was reached at the weekend. Meeting at the Abrau-Durso winery in the country’s Krasnodar region near the Black Sea coast, members of the Russian Winegrower and Winemaker Unio...Russia to stop using 'Soviet Champagne' name
October, 30, 2011 -
(NYdailynews) - A portly Brooklyn wine connoisseur who stole $170,000 worth of high-end booze and bubbly will have to table his fine tastes for a while - and settle for prison chow. Federal Judge Jack Weinstein Friday sentenced limo driver Donald Trizzino, 50, to two years behind bars for scammin...US: Brooklyn wine conoisseur stole $170K of expensive alcohols, scammed 23 people on WineCommune.com
October, 30, 2011 -
(Stuff) - More than 70 vineyards for sale as wine profits plummet. Export wine prices have slumped to a new low as the industry struggles to cope with changes wrought by a massive increase in supply of Marlborough sauvignon blanc. Latest Overseas Merchandise Trade figures show that wine export...NZ: Party over as wine profits plummet
October, 30, 2011 -
(BBC) - Children as young as 12 claimed they drank the equivalent of 19 glasses of wine per week when questioned for a UK-wide survey of 83,000 school pupils. Of those aged 12 or 13 questioned by the Schools Health Education Unit, 4% claimed they drank 28 units or more - more than the weekly adul...UK: Children 'drinking adult alcohol intake'
October, 30, 2011 -
/PRNewswire/ — Glenmorangie has won the top honor in this year’s Wine Enthusiast Wine Star Awards in the Distiller of the Year category, beating out an impressive list of nominees. “We are extremely honored to be recognized by Wine Enthusiast for the great yet unseen lengths that we go to i...Glenmorangie Named 2011 Distiller of the Year by Wine Enthusiast Magazine
October, 28, 2011 -
(Drinksint) - Low and no-alcohol wine sales are growing rapidly from a small base and getting close to 1 million cases in the UK, according to the latest figures from Nielsen. That is not far off the volume sold by Argentina, one of the top 10 wine-producing countries in the UK market. The sec...UK: Low alcohol market hits 1 million cases
October, 28, 2011

