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US: Oregon growers trying several tricks to salvage wine grape growing season
October, 22, 2011
(Statesmanjournal) - Threats of migratory birds, destructive mold and fall weather make it a tough time to be a wine grape in the Willamette Valley. Area growers are on pins and needles as they deal with another delayed harvest — the result of heavy spring rains and a cool growing season. Simil...
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Cleaning up the Cape
October, 22, 2011
(JancisRobinson) - Bidding is always fierce for the most distinctive lot in the annual Cape Winemakers Guild auction, the giant 18-litre bottle filled with a special blend of the best wines of the most recent vintage produced by members of this elite club of South Africa's top vintners. At this year...
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Getting to the Bottom of Bordeaux
October, 21, 2011
(WSJ) - With thousand-dollar bottles, complex classifications and a dizzying number of estates, this great French wine region is difficult to comprehend. Here, a simplified guide to the territoire—plus some surprisingly affordable offerings. There are only a handful of wine regions that manage to ...
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Chinese interest in lower-ranking chateaux increasing, say Bordeaux negociants
October, 21, 2011
(Decanter) - While the market for the very top end of Bordeaux is correcting itself in China, interest in the lower end is increasing, Bordeaux negociants say. Both CVBG Grands Crus and Vintex have told Decanter.com they are seeing ‘very strong interest’ in the 5th growth and Cru Bourgeois wines...
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Mexico lifts 20 percent tariff on Golden State wine
October, 21, 2011
(Bizjournals) - Mexico has eliminated what the San Francisco-based Wine Institute called “retaliatory tariffs” on 99 U.S. products, including a 20 percent tariff on California and other U.S. wines, after a trucking dispute between the two North American neighbors was resolved. Golden State wi...
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Karl Lagerfeld's Latest Design Project: Wine Labels
October, 21, 2011
(Huffingtonpost) - Karl Lagerfeld recently told Style.com he has little interest in imbibing alcohol, along with engaging in various other vices. But that didn't stop the Kaiser from designing wine labels to commemorate the Chateau Rauzan-Segla vineyard's 350th anniversary (the winery was acquire...
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Wine: Organic Is Better, Right?
October, 21, 2011
(NewWorldWinemaker) - There is no word for winemaker in French, Spanish, Italian or German, pointing to the ingrained belief that wine is made by nature, not by man. The conviction has been held for centuries in the Old World-that wine is, at its core, the reflection of a place. While there is no s...
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US: Shelf crash destroys 6,810 wine bottles
October, 21, 2011
(UPI) - A Wisconsin liquor store that lost 6,810 bottles of wine and champagne in a shelf collapse has posted footage of the incident to YouTube. Superior Discount Liquor in Sheboygan posted security camera footage of the collapse, which occurred in July as Badger Liquor Co. salesman Nick Haen wa...
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US: Oregon growers trying several tricks to salvage wine grape growing season

Cleaning up the Cape

Getting to the Bottom of Bordeaux

Chinese interest in lower-ranking chateaux increasing, say Bordeaux negociants

Mexico lifts 20 percent tariff on Golden State wine

Karl Lagerfeld's Latest Design Project: Wine Labels

Wine: Organic Is Better, Right?

US: Shelf crash destroys 6,810 wine bottles

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