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Posted: December 23rd, 2008, 7:17pm CET
UK retailers have said pre-Christmas wine sales have been 'mixed' while many have declined to comment altogether.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2008, 2:08pm CET
Californian wine company Sebastiani Vineyards is set to be sold to US wine group Foley for an undisclosed sum, it was announced yesterday.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2008, 12:11pm CET
A German scientist has managed to register the speed of a Champagne cork as it leaves the bottle.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2008, 6:52pm CET
Italian co-operative Riunite & CIV has bought Italy's largest wine firm, Gruppo Italiano Vini (GIV).
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Posted: December 22nd, 2008, 12:43pm CET
The French Senate has allowed the eight St-Emilion chateaux demoted in the region's classification to return to their 2006 status.
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 7:12pm CET
Australia has agreed to stop using terms such as Champagne, Sherry, Port and Chablis as part of a new EU-Australia Wine Agreement. In exchange, the EU will allow imports of reduced alcohol Australian wine made via reverse osmosis.
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 1:24pm CET
New York's governor, David Paterson, proposed on Tuesday that the state's 19,000 grocery and convenience stores be allowed to sell wine.
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 5:49pm CET
Christie's is closing its South Kensington wine department at the end of the week.
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Posted: December 16th, 2008, 8:19am CET
American wine sales overtook French in the UK for the first time this year.
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Posted: December 15th, 2008, 4:52pm CET
Australia will hit rock bottom in the face of competition from South Africa, veteran winemaker Wolf Blass has warned.
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Posted: December 12th, 2008, 4:18pm CET
The new CEO of Krug Champagne, Margareth Henriquez, will take up her post in January.
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Posted: December 11th, 2008, 1:43pm CET
A San Francisco cooperative is selling futures in a new wine called Bailout' - inspired by the economic crisis.
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Posted: December 11th, 2008, 11:33am CET
The en primeur campaign for the 2008 vintage may not happen, warns Château Petrus owner Jean-François Moueix.
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Posted: December 10th, 2008, 7:05pm CET
A process designed by NASA scientists to remove airborne contaminants can eliminate TCA as well.
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Posted: December 10th, 2008, 3:03pm CET
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is to make red wine in the Corton appellation for the first time.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 7:04pm CET
Founding winemaker of Cloudy Bay Kevin Judd is to leave the winery after the 2009 vintage.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 6:30pm CET
Moët Hennessy Champagne brand Dom Pérignon is releasing a glass modelled after supermodel Claudia Schiffer's breasts, according to press reports.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 6:16pm CET
The UK Circle of Wine Writers and Pavilion Books have named Andy Lloyd Young Wine Writer 2008 for his essay The Grapes of Health, about the state of the wine industry and the issues associated with responsible drinking.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 6:10pm CET
French cooperage Radoux has released a limited edition leather-bound barrel with a Swarovski crystal bung (stopper), for the winemaker who has everything.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 4:06pm CET
Icewine harvest begins in Niagara
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 12:46pm CET
Penfolds 2005 Bin 144 Yattarna Chardonnay was named Australia's best export wine for 2008 by the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation (AWBC).
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Posted: December 5th, 2008, 8:27pm CET
Over half the French population believes wine poses a health risk, a French survey says.
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Posted: December 5th, 2008, 7:42pm CET
Champagne shipments worldwide fell by over 20% in October, according to the region's representative association, the CIVC.
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Posted: December 5th, 2008, 5:23pm CET
New York's burgeoning wine industry suffered a reversal on 1 December when the last Manhattan wine shop specialising exclusively in the state's wines went out of business.
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Posted: December 5th, 2008, 4:02pm CET
The Bordeaux trade must slash its prices by 50%, say leading UK merchants, or the 2008 en primeur campaign could be a 'disaster'.
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Posted: December 4th, 2008, 5:43pm CET
It was with healthy scepticism that I entered Vinopolis on Friday night (28 November) for its monthly Laughter Lounge event.
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Posted: December 4th, 2008, 1:26pm CET
Fine wine prices continue to fall, heard delegates at a conference on 2 December.
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Posted: December 4th, 2008, 1:05pm CET
A year-long life cycle analysis (LCA) of the environmental impact of cork, plastic and aluminium screwcap stoppers has found what is already widely accepted: that cork is the most environmentally-friendly stopper.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 9:23pm CET
ASC Fine Wines, China's leading importer of fine wines, has opened a Hong Kong office.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 8:52pm CET
Copia, Napa's beleaguered wine, food and arts centre, has filed for bankruptcy protection as it struggles to restructure and stay in business.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 8:39pm CET
Brown-Forman is to sell Italian wine brands Bolla and Fontana Candida to the company's Italian partner, Gruppo Italiano Vini (GIV), for an undisclosed sum.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 4:38pm CET
A documentary that promotes the green credentials of the cork industry dodges the real issues in the closures debate, say a UK supermarket and a synthetic closure producer.
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Posted: December 1st, 2008, 5:44pm CET
French actor-winemaker-restaurateur Gerard Depardieu disdains biodynamics, Jamie Oliver and 'bullshit industrial wines'.
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Posted: December 1st, 2008, 3:19pm CET
Opus One narrowly escaped being named after a San Francisco gay bar, and Baron Eric de Rothschild feels 'like a movie star' at tastings.
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Posted: December 1st, 2008, 11:50am CET
Loire region Gros Plant du Pays Nantais has opted to become an IGP (Indication Geographique Protegee) rather than trying for appellation status.
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